Many of our decisions make sense only within a social environment. Sanfey shows how game theory models and neuroimaging methods help define the processes underlying social decision-making.
Designing SOPs for Learners
Are you writing SOPs your staff can understand? This poster, presented at the AABB 2007 conference, offers evidence-based principles for designing standard operating procedures that support learning. more →
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Transfusion Reading List
Use RSS feeds to create a personal reading list. This is a collection of extraordinary feeds that should get any discerning transfusion information maven started. [This post is no longer being updated.] more →
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Definitions of Learning
Learning is a complex phenomenon that defies easy definitions. But, hey, that doesn't mean I'm not going to try. more →
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Introducing the Book
What happens when you are a monk used to transcribing scrolls and you are faced with the new technology called “book”? Well, you call the help desk.
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The Audiocast Diaries
Government regulation of the radio industry heavily turned it into a one-way medium, controlling content, and limiting frequencies and ownership. Maybe this new technology [a convergence of podcasting, radio and mobile phones], which allows two-way communications, will change radio back to its origins of a two-way medium, as it was in Marconi’s day.
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The Changing Face of Workplace Learning
The future of workplace learning is mobile, and distributed mobile at that.
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Being an Unperson
“There is no such thing as a true unperson. An unperson is a ghost, a prejudice in people’s minds.” A beautiful and terrifying video of how we let people know they don’t matter by someone who clearly does.
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You don’t have to read a book to talk wisely about it
Distinguished professor of literature Pierre Bayard explains how to appear extremely well-read without turning a page.
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Survey respondents of a report commissioned by Attunity show that the tools and strategies we come up with to cope in the information age are inadequate. Managers spend a disproportionate amount of time digging for rather than managing information.