Applications of emerging technologies for learning are evolving very rapidly at the moment. Reseach reports and cases on technology-enhanced learning are popping up everywhere in the web. The British BECTA organisation published an interesting report on the “Emerging Technologies for Learning“. In the report six experts describe different emerging technologies and their impact on learning. […]

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Opinions about the most effective ways of learning differ. And, although we speak about blended learning approaches and differences in preferred learning styles there are limited evidence-based learning approaches available. Both in education and in corporate learning professionals are doing their job based on impressions, trends and old habits. In the Dutch Financial Times there […]

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A few weeks ago my local newspaper published a piece on Lifelong Learning that expressed concerns about the lack of support the Dutch Government is giving to it. The argument is that there are good intentions, but action is missing. “No one is against Lifelong Learning, but we need more people promoting it actively”, according […]

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On the weblog of Mindleaders I read a post by Beth Griese . She stated that one of the popular topics at the ASTD conference 2007 was International learning and diversity. This is no big surprise with the increased globalisation in mind (25% of ASTD’s audience from outside the US). So far I haven’t been […]

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According to a study of the UK National Institute of Continuing Adult Education workers in the UK prefer informal learning to improve work performance. In the study 2,057 workers were asked what ways of learning are useful in learning to do a job better. In total 10 interventions were presented. Learning by doing was the […]

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