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2015 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

It’s pretty helpful when I’m trying to improve my musical skills, too. Google Scholar: When I’m researching something, Google Scholar is the first port-of-call. A quick search for ‘workplace learning’ on Google Scholar returns almost one-and-a-half million results in less than a tenth of a second.

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How humor helps + Powtoon review

Making Change

In a recent LinkedIn discussion about the cartoon, Megan Torrance reported that in one of her projects, elearning modules with a funny cartoon trailer had twice as many signups as modules without the trailer. I poked around Google Scholar and found studies that seem to agree that (relevant!) What research says about humor.

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Sharpest tools in the box

Learning with e's

Each programme features an interview with a celebrity, who is invited to bring a list of their 8 favourite music tracks and during the show they talk about why they chose them, thereby giving their listening audience an insight into their lives. Many of the Google suite of tools have become quite important in my working day.

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