The eLearning Cactus

Agile team members are adults. Often, though, dysfunctional teams assign the role of "parent" to managers. That just infantilizes the team and renders them unable to make esssential decisions. Defering decision making to the grown ups is a cop out that diminishes agility.

A Lesson in How to Motivate with Humor > twitter.com/i/status/12925…

Check out the free Learning Science Weekly with short research summaries and takeaways> ow.ly/qqoy50AzNQz

You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting. 🧠

@DonaldClark Interesting. Hadn’t noticed you caring so much about history being distorted until now. Changing the face of history to a more accurate one starts with unlearning and relearning, give it a try...

Christopher Columbus gone... slippery slope syndrome... idiots who see all of history purely in terms of their 'goodies v baddies' narrative... I presume the country of Colombia and Columbia University will have to be renamed.... #Echobox=1591782126" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/global/video/2…

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Designing slides for Virtual Presentations > ow.ly/xrFj50zZPUt

brightwavegroup.com/future-of-work… People need to transfer skills and develop new capabilities quickly. #Immersive takes people through the motions and the emotions of learning a new skill, helping them to train faster. #LearningandDevelopment #FutureOfWork #upskilling #reskilling #AR #VR

Who would you recommend to train a team in online design and delivery - possibly with a certification. The team already has experience so we're not looking for entry level - we're looking for them to finesse their skills to become experts

Changes in the workplace that we expected by 2030 have happened within weeks. Learning in the flow of work used to be the aim for L&D but we're all now working in the flow of life. brightwavegroup.com/2020/04/24/wor… #FutureofWork #BusinessUnusual #FutureOfWork #FutureOfLearning

If you care about productivity, you care about internal code quality. If you want to go faster tomorrow, you care about the quality of the code you wrote today. - @GeePawHill #agile

VOICE ACTORS WITH HOME STUDIOS: We’re creating a database of voice actors who have set up home studios. We have several projects coming up which will require remote recording due to #COVID19 - please feel free to share and connect with us #voiceactors #animation #gamedev

I just found my new favorite Zoom background.

Yo! Float Learning is providing a free version of their microlearning platform SparkLearn, called SLGO. Good for your remote teams. Check it out here > ow.ly/rZ4X50z1DAj

Online OER20 programme announced oer20.oerconf.org/news/2020/03/o…

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If you just started using @Lectora Online, watch this recorded webinar for tips: hubs.ly/H0nQ2S10 #lectoraonline #elearning #webinars

"Often the L&D budget—being so small—must be used with caution and frugality, but in doing so some great benefits emerge…" Read more about low-cost learning strategies: bit.ly/2xp7wPp

As Zoom is now being extensively used by many people during the crisis, this cheat sheet might prove useful

When you start recording a midweek video update for the team and your cat comes in the window #workingfromhome