The Work-Based Learning Unit of e-Skills UK has published preliminary results from their research with employers and learners in the UK "to help understand why employers are currently investing in e-learning and the difference it is ... of face-to-face and e-learning is pervasive, across a wide range of subject areas. Of the "online services offered ... is the primary application of e-learning amongst employers; what is encouraging is that much more notice is being taken of the need for collaborative techniques. Of the "e-learning technologies used", roughly 60% of employers are using ...

Jay Cross got me straight on fraudulent information concerning the effectiveness of learning methods. Will Thalheimer who has a great blog with research-based commentary on learning and performance got some mails out on this ... Glasser and I put in statistics that I thought he used to divide learning methods. Some of those circulating statistics turn ... central point being that learning results depend on too many variables to enable such precision. He then searched for the ... sort of times I sigh deeply and tell myself that I will never be able to stop learning, and I definitely always ...

... and James Paul Gee who were tied in to some of the research that MIT was doing on games for learning. MIT has come out with some more good research. Specifically, in 2005, the MacArthur Foundation at MIT undertook a new grant-based ... interdisciplinary studies in the field of digital media and learning. There is a lot of good information in these six books. They ... ). The six books are: Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning Digital Young, Innovation, and the ...

The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World . The list of ... the report, the authors define Learning 2.0 as 'the idea of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration ... perspective: Learning 2.0 can play an important role in supporting formal learning in terms of active support and follow-through. Learning 2.0 is growing much faster than other approaches (albeit from a much lower base). It is the ... comes to attracting and retaining talent. Seventy percent of respondents plan to apply more Learning 2.0 in the ...

The Annual Survey Report for 2008 on Learning and Development from the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) presents a confusing picture on the status of e-learning in the UK. The CIPD sent surveys to 5000 of their ... specific functional areas. Each one of the headlines concerning e-learning takes some interpretation: 'Less than half (47%) are using more e-learning and a quarter (26%) say they don't use or no longer use e-learning' : When you look at the figures, what you see is a more positive picture: not only are half of all companies using e-learning more, only 2% ...

... have to be able to compare it with something - how about 'ten years is no time at all in learning and development'. I enjoyed Daniel Wain and Graham O'Connell's session, Ten Years of Changing Trends in Learning and Development at the ... work in HR, typically soft skills and compliance. The surveys were also answered by learning and development ... unacceptable, for example, to talk of training rather than learning, even when that's what you're doing. He acknowledged that on-job training (sorry, learning) was still top of the pops and that the classroom is still prominent, albeit ...

There's more fuel to the informal learning fire from a survey of 2076 employees in the UK conducted by the National ... are so ambiguous. Surely 'using trial and error' and 'reflecting on your performance' are learning by 'doing your job ... fact that 42% of respondents find the skills that they learn outside work very useful to them at work . What sort of ... helpful in supporting them to improve their job performance. Only 29 per cent of respondents cite this source of learning ... shows an overwhelming preference for less formal ways of learning to improve job performance." And my ...

I've previously posted on the effect of sleep on our learning and memory effectiveness in Snooze and Learn Faster and Six minute nap may boost memory. Here's yet another study supporting the need for sleep to consolidate a new experience. To sleep, perchance to remember (Nice title, not mine but a similar Shakespearian steal as Learning As You Like It) Neuroscientists at Geneva ...

Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many ... found two lengthy reviews of learning styles research: Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning Should we be using learning styles? What research has to say to practice These are two related reports with some shared content. The first is a literature review of 13 often-cited learning styles; the second summarizes that research and ... learning styles research is weak, failing on external reviews of consistency, reliability, and validity. Some models are ...

An article called Experimental Subjects in the Economist of June 2nd caught my eye. The sub-title read Neuroscience can transform education-if scientists talk to teachers . It seems that in their impatience for practical guidelines to arise from neuroscience research, teachers are turning increasingly to vendors offering them 'brain-based learning ... mailshots a year encouraging them to attend courses on brain-based learning. So what sort of 'neuromyths' are these ... balanced' to avoid a mismatch between learner preference and learning experience. This neuromyth probably stems from an ...

There are quite a few interesting surprises in the eLearning Guild's Snapshot Report on Learning Modalities released yesterday. The report looks at the take-up of various forms of e-learning as reported by an ongoing survey of Guild members, the majority of whom are located in the USA. Traditional e-learning Asynchronous (self-paced) e-learning is used sometimes or often in 83% of organisations, but more so in bigger organisations. Synchronous (live) e-learning ... other regions. Web 2.0 learning Blogs are used sometimes or often in 22% of organisations, podcasts in 20%, ...

A posting by George Siemens alerted me to the startling prediction that the e-Learning Market to hit $56 billion by 2010 . Now, call me an old cynic, but even when the forecast comes from the impressively titled Global Industry Analysts (whoever they are), I cannot summon up the remotest excitement. I have never known a single e-learning industry ... significant spend on e-learning to their senior management, or (3) those who haven't been around long enough to know ... suggesting that e-learning is dying fast (which would give me an excuse for early retirement, but would also ...

In Blood Flow and Learning , Michelle Gallen claims that: "When you sit down for more than 20 minutes your blood pools in your behind and feet?If you get up and move around your blood recirculates, and inside a minute, your brain gets a hit of about 15% more blood. This helps you think." Presumably that means that if you have a big behind or big feet then you're in even bigger trouble. Now neither of these are my problem (as if you really wanted to know), but this is still ... -learning, synchronous or asynchronous. Limit modules to this length and encourage a little standing up or walking ...

... the rise in e-learning and blended learning playing a pivotal role in reducing costs." Apparently the UK ...

We really do live in exciting times. What with global geopolitical and economic power shifts and increasingly evident environmental concerns it's easy to feel uneasy. Yet there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic about our ability to learn new ways to manage and cope through what will inevitably be a long rollercoaster ride over the next few decades. The pace of innovation in many ...

Continuing the theme from the previous post, there are some good resources resources for educators and researchers interested in using virtual worlds in their disciplines. Linden Labs actually provides a great deal of the resources for Education and Non-Profit Organizations . SimTeach uses a wiki to establish a community for sharing information in virtual worlds. They also include a list of universities who are using SL and a list of guidelines for educators in SL.

It was exciting to see Guild research as part of an article in Business Week . From the Story "...fledgling corporate games and virtual worlds are not nearly as sophisticated or visually stunning as some of the most popular consumer games involving millions of players, such as World of Warcraft, but they are precursors of what's in the pipeline. In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 people in large and small companies, the eLearning Guildâ€"a group investigating the design and management of e-learning tools for business, government, and educationâ€"found that the number of people ...

... here is some research to back up my late night musings and anecdotal evidence. A study by the National Academy of ... at birth. First the researchers trained subjects in a complicated memory task, an elaborate variation on Concentration ... designed learning event...No? Does your teaching, e-learning or training help people become more intelligent? Check ...

ZDNet reviewed a research report on this topic: A study by the University of Rochester showed that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved their vision by about 20 ... the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life." I believe we will begin to see more and more research showing the benefits of video games and learning. Those who don't play will undoubtedly need to wait "to see the data", but those of us that do play see most ...

This is an interesting short report up from the New Scientist: Replacing dry multiple-choice tests with quizzes akin to the hit TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire could help boost comprehension levels in children. Tzu-Hua Wang at the National Hsinchu University of Education in Taiwan has devised a web-based multiple choice testing system with some fun elements influenced by the TV quiz.

... include: An interactive tool and video to accompany the March 2008 article, " Is Yours a Learning Organization? " A " Learning Organization Survey " that while designed for your own personal use could still serve as a " starting point to help you assess how well your organization meets the criteria for being a learning ...

... more likely, qualitative at this point) studies on the pros or cons of Web 2.0 technologies for learning, ...

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 words, there's a documented, enormous and profound differential between teaching and learning." On the Teaching Expertise site , they make a similar ...

... the fact that there is now research showing that computers can use an algorithm to do almost human-like pattern matching and recognition or that the entirety of this article is available for free online. (by the way, side topic, I will NEVER by another computer with anything less than 4GBs of RAM - oh, and Comcast, in case you're doing more illegal ... algorithm presents: "a computational model that learns structures of many different forms and that discovers which form ... learning methods closer to human abilities and may lead to a deeper computational understanding of ...

At a panel at DevLearn. We have: Will Thalheimer, Work Learning Research Kevin Oakes, I4CP Claire Schooley, Forrester Chris Howard, Bersin Kevin Martin, Aberdeen Biggest trend is Learning 2.0 trend. Allow people to work faster, better through informal learning. eLearning 2.0 addresses informal, on-the-job. It's relatively new. Bersin is ... ASTD research - 86% - web 2.0 technologies likely to use more in learning function than they do today 41% - using ... handle control of their own learning? What does research show? Some debate, but no research on this yet. Somewhat ...

... that Learning 2.0 enables (encourages) learners to create their own content. Steve Wexler, Director of Research and ... I've been busy again thinking about the nexus between LEARNING and LEARNING MEASUREMENT. You can peruse some of my previous thoughts on learning measurement by clicking here . Here is a brand new article that I wrote for the eLearning Guild on how to evaluate Learning 2.0 stuff. Note: Learning 2.0 is defined (by the eLearning Guild) as: The idea of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration, enhanced by technologies driving Web 2.0.

For those who haven't seen it, Will Thalheimer is doing a series of posts over the next couple of days on Learning Measurement. He pulls together a lot of his thoughts and research done with the eLearning Guild. His reasons for getting involved in learning measurement are fourfold: The performance of the learning-and-performance field is severely deficientâ€"often creating learning that is not remembered and/or not utilized on the job. Of the forces that control and ... practices provide us with poor and biased feedback about our performance as learning-and-performance ...

The BBC reports on the New Scientist reporting on a German study finding (here's the source article) that: Just six minutes "shut-eye" for volunteers was followed by significantly better recall of words. "Ultra-short" sleep could launch memory processing in the brain, suggested the researchers from the University of Dusseldorf. This follows on from my earlier post Snooze and Learn Faster.

A recent study has found that a ninety minute daytime nap helps speed up the process of long term memory consolidation. The group that slept in the afternoon showed a distinct improvement in their task performance by that evening, as opposed to the group that stayed awake, which did not exhibit any improvement. Following an entire night's sleep, both groups exhibited the same skill level.

These are my liveblogged notes from the eLearning Guild’s webinar on their e-Learning 2.0 research report ... people completed the e-learning 2.0 survey Concerns with emerging technologies: New things will make what we’re doing now obsolete: False Hard to learn: Probably not Hard to convince others: Probably not “If I don ... opportunities What is e-learning 2.0? “The idea of learning through digital connections and peer ... fulfill intrinsic needs to learn new information.” Brent: The biggest change is that we’re not ...