" Now I'd like to consider mobile learning from another angle: Where is mobile learning most helpful? But the question for learning professionals is this: Can you provide people in your organization with another productive use of their smartphone during such stolen moments -- a way to learn or improve their performance in some way? Another example of where mobile learning could be helpful is quite different from boredom; it is in urgent situations when immediate performance support is required. Dealing with boredom and urgency are both valid uses of mobile learning. MORE >>

WHAT TO DO NOW: In the comments below please provide YOUR strategy that makes your audience engage with your online presentations. And finally, where possible I include video to demonstrate/model a point, and use a variety of audience feedback/participation to help keep engagement high. Wired@Heart. Transcending Distances in Online Learning. Search. Main menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. About. Services. Small Business Owners. Teachers. Organizations. Testimonials. Contact. Post navigation. ← Previous. Posted on February 29, 2012 by Marina Kostina. MORE >>

have a few tips that'll help you create a compelling story for your show. like telling stories over providing a collection of facts. This helps me understand what parts of the topic I'll cover at each stage of the story. Whenever he has to, he provides context for statistics. “Presentation is the ‘Killer Skill’ we take into the real world. It’s almost an unfair advantage.” – The McKinsey Mind. If you've followed this blog long enough, you'll know that I am big on presentation skills. completely agree with McKinsey when they call presentation, the killer skill. MORE >>

When asked " what helps you to concentrate ?", Only 15% think that listening to music helps them to focus. Addressing the question: " wat best helps you retain recently acquired knowledge?" There's plenty to ponder in the results of Rethinking Learning , a report published in June by SkillSoft and based on research conducted on their behalf by OnePoll. The survey canvassed 2019 people working in companies with more than fifty employees, evenly divided across eight European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK). MORE >>

One budding approach that may help unify your team, your business unit and your organization to ultimately enrich and enhance your corporate culture, such that all employees feel as though they are moving forward as a connected group, is through the deployment and utilisation of an internal enterprise-wide micro-blogging platform. Micro-blogging can also help mitigate missing connections between the field worker, the front line, the individual contributor, the manager, the director, the VP and the executive suite. Providing information that is timely through non-formal use. MORE >>