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Organizational Learning in the Gig Economy

The Simple Shift

According to a 2016 article in Quartz that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,’ with over 60% being due to the rise of independent contractors, freelancers and contract company workers.

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Five Teaching Strategies Backed Up by Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

Alternatively, how we breathe, and the breathing phase (inhalation or exhalation) impact our memory. This is the surprising finding of an American study published in 2016.

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

This From the Vault article was originally published in July 2016 on CLOmedia.com. But there’s an alternative. Organizations worldwide have to develop their leaders with less time and money, and it’s not easy. Worse, most leadership development programs turn out to be ineffective and expensive.

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

Gyrus

According to Beal (2016), an “Application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. 14 June 2016. "Title 14 June 2016. In fact, you would be hard pressed to identify matching features across the entirety of the industry. Custom APIs. What is an API?

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The Year in Learning—89 Hand-Picked L&D-Related Articles from 2017

The Learning Dispatch

Below are our recommended learning and development articles from the past 12 months, including thought-provoking or simply fun articles related to the field. Recommended Learning and Development Articles from Our Senior Learning Architect. The Year in Learning—89 Recommended Learning and Development Articles from 2017.

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Is eLearning Dead? Is Instructional Design Dying with It?

Kapp Notes

In a report published in August 2016 by Sam Adkins of Ambient Insight a declaration is made that self-paced eLearning is in a death spiral: The worldwide five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for self-paced eLearning is distinctly negative at -6.4%; global revenues for self-paced courseware are dropping fast. June 2016 article. ).

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Which eBook Format is Better? Here Are the Top 5

Kitaboo

If you feel overwhelmed with the amount of information available online, this article can help. It is an alternative to ePUB for Apple users as it can be interactive and support video, audio, color images, etc. Apart from the five formats mentioned in this article, there are some lesser-known ones, like LRS, LRF, FB2, DJVU, etc.

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