Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. Facebook Statistics ) On Facebook, the average user has 130 friends on the site with more than 8 billion minutes spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) providing approximately 45 million status updates each day. (same Here are some interesting Web 2.0 Web 2.0

Here are some interesting statistics about learning. These types of informative statistics appear in ASTD’s annual State of the Industry report. Of course, the data was collected before the great finanical meltdown but still interesting data According to ASTD, an organization of professional learning and development practiioners: ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent $134.39

Here is a recap of some facts assembled by the Entertainment Software Association : A total of 254 universities and other institutions of higher learning in 37 states and the District of Columbia now offer courses and degrees in computer and video game design, programming, and art. California is home to 46 institutions of higher learning offering such courses or degrees. Other states in the top 10 are: New York (21); Texas (20); Florida (19); Illinois (16); Pennsylvania (12); Massachusetts (11); Washington (9); Georgia (8); Arizona, Michigan, and Colorado (7).

Recently I've been reading Eric Jensen's book Brain-Based Learning , and this took me to some work done by Dr Emile Donchin at the University of Illinois in 1986. Apparently, Donchin and his associates conducted some research which appeared to show that more than 99% of our learning is nonconscious. Jensen was interested in the implication for teachers: "Most of what's learned in your class is not in your lesson plan; in other

Here are some interesting statistics from TRAINING . 2009 U.S. Training Expenditures (including payroll and spending on external products and services) was $52.2 billion (a 7% decrease from last year) 41% of organizations plan on purchasing online learning tools and systems in the next year. Payroll was $32.9

Thanks to Dr. Kim Foreman and the crew from San Francisco State University's #ITEC830 class for the opportunity to spend last Thursday afternoon with them. Dr. Foreman had asked me to focus on the state of mobile learning and to... ...Tags: Tags: Diffusion of Innovation

Lately I've posted a number of entries related to statistics for video games, Web 2.0 Here are a list of the entries. Learning Statistics Video Games, Education and Entertainment Statistics Learning Statistics from ASTD 2009 State of the Industry Report Random Web 2.0 Statistics Training Industry Statistics _ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide ...Tags: and the learning industry. Tags: Out and Abou

ASTD , recently released their State of the Industry Report. Here are a few highlights. US organizations spent $134.07 billion on employee learning and development in 2008. $88.59 88.59

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The RoamBI app allows you to show statistics on the go or roam through them as you yourself are on the road. Tags: statistics mobile tools application In this increasingly data related world, visualizing your research is important. There are lots of old school ways (Excel, SPSS ...) which give straight forward data in correct (rather