Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? ” Here are the top five ways that people learn, with my comments below on how this can be facilitated in the organization, either by management or the learning support group. Notice that these are all informal. Email (keeping up to date inside the organization). MORE >>

So for the longest while, Google has been the boogie bear of taxonomists, with senior executives lying in wait to pounce on innocent taxonomy projects with the battle cry “why do we need a taxonomy, let’s just get Google!” ” Is that taxonomy work or is that taxonomy work? The times they are a changing MORE >>

Magyar, A.E. 2012) "Plagiarism and attribution: an academic literacies approach?" Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education , 4. In many Higher Education courses in the UK the ability to write extended academic prose is central to assessment and therefore to student success. link] Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, 2012. MORE >>

Last week I had an early evening meeting set up with Indy Johar , the inspiring co-founder of Hub Westminster. Another Hub Westminster member Pamela joined us. To be frank I don’t completely understand the protocol, even after viewing the very interesting Prezi explanation below from David Pinto. eco^external on Prezi. MORE >>

There are lots of “learning specialists” in organizations and they work for variously named departments. As learning specialists, I assume they are supporting workplace learning, so let me ask: If I’m sitting at my desk with a work-related problem can I call the Training Department to quickly get me up to speed? MORE >>