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Compared with GDP, we are only able to provide a relatively coarse estimate of changes in consumer surplus given our sample size… Future work should use more massive sample sizes… Another limitation of our study is that it is biased toward people using the internet. MORE
Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. MORE
In general, 2nd-3rd graders will switching a counting strategy to math facts retrieval when doing arithmetic, but these researchers found "considerable variation in the mix of strategies used to solve these problems.Retrieval fluency related to grade level in this sample.". MORE
These advanced statistical methods have enabled the creation of AI algorithms that can be trained with lots and lots of sample inputs instead of being explicitly programmed. MORE
By almost any standards the sample in this study was large – 8,500 cases drawn from 14 organisations across six industries in nine countries. A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development. MORE
They would then go and interview maybe 10/15 organisations using a strong hypothesis and from that sample draw conclusions that would be published. . MORE
Polls rely on sampling – the basic idea being that you don’t have to ask everyone to get a rough idea of how things are going to go. This is the issue of sampling error. Sampling error, as I’ve mentioned, but also sampling bias. MORE
Summary of a talk by Baltasar Fernandex Manjon at CELDA 2019 ie.ft.com/uber-game Serious games - Have been used successfully in many domains – medicine, military - But low adoption in mainstream education - So we say we’re working in ‘game-like simulation’ [link] - Fake news, trolls, e-influencers [link] [link] [link] - Has been formally evaluated Citizen science - Uses games for crowdsourcing Also: - Educational versions of commercial games Do serious games actually work? MORE
Nine out of ten companies sampled by Altimeter are engaged in one or more digital transformation practices: These efforts are being championed by the Chief Marketing Officer, the CEO, and occasionally the CIO. MORE
Students are allowed to sample classes before they have to register for them." . Here's a disturbing story about how good teaching and learning is being killed by college football. Calstate was put on NCAA probation for practicing good teaching and learning! MORE
Please note that this is an entirely unscientific, non-significant sampling. A couple of weeks ago, I happened to come across a few Wikipedia articles that struck me as too hard. I started getting worried that Wikipedia’s constant review process was resulting in articles inching up the Technical Accuracy pole while slipping down the Intelligibility for Non-Experts pole. MORE
Interview a sample of participants and ask for their views. Interview a sample of line managers and ask what changes they have noticed. Sample customer satisfaction. Ask what performance changes you want to see and then measure them. Use the staff survey as an indicator of change. Measure increases in activity following on from the training. Ask the participants to comment one month or three months on about the continuing benefits. MORE
One of the sample reports we offer prospective SenseMaker® customers is from a pilot project we completed on critical incidents in healthcare. It’s only working with a diversity of many perspectives can we get objectively closer to a more authentic sense of reality. MORE
" Product Description: Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Generational Change in the U.S. Military (strategy+business) | Main | 2007 edublog winners announced! MORE
In recent presentations, I’ve been positioning MOOCs in terms of the complexification of higher education (see below for sample presentation). I’ve said this many times over the past six months: If 2012 was the year of the MOOC, 2013 will be the year of the anti-MOOC. Things are unfolding nicely according to plan. Faculty don’t like MOOCs. Critiquing MOOCs is now more fashionable than advocating for them. MORE
Every year, the BLS collects data on workplace injuries from a sample of around 200,000 institutions. MORE
You may want to sample. I bailed out of the Wisdom 2.0 conference Main Stage events yesterday afternoon and missed the opportunity to see Jon Kabat Zinn , whom I only know from his books and tapes: Jon is a god. I revere him. He moves mountains. MORE
Not everyone we could and should’ve gotten, but a representative sample across sectors of some of the most respected folks in the industry that we could reach out to in short order. MORE
His book ‘The Nature of Managerial Work’ found that more than half of managers’ time in his sample was spent in meetings.” I listened to a podcast recently where Steven Rogelberg was interviewed about his 2019 book — The Surprising Science of Meetings. MORE
Recently, psychologists have developed the experience sampling method to try and make sample the stream of consciousness a little more systematic. The New York Times has a fascinating article revisiting a classic problem in psychology of whether our accounts of our individual 'streams of consciousness' have any useful role in the scientific understanding the mind. MORE
One concern, however, is that online samples may be less motivated to pay attention to the tasks they are participating in. Online testing is sure to play a large part in the future of Psychology. MORE
These include samples in China, India and Singapore and for female leaders, since the original samples of executives in the early 80s were mostly male. This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site. MORE
A recent sampling of their thinking: From Kate: I really think the measure of our capacity to call ourselves a community relates to our responses in a whole range of situations for which there can’t be laws or even social demands, but only instinct… and that’s where I think we are with our transactions, our struggling social communities, our networks, the places and persons that we care for. MORE
For specific samples, we asked Download.com to send us adwareand spyware theyve seen in the wild, to better replicate the examplesyou are likely to encounter on your own, not theoretical or "zoo"examples. MORE
Shakespeare I like Shakespeare. :). MORE
Brobst Systems - Ready-made Website Templates and Themes - Free Samples Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management | Intelligent Agent. Martin De Saulles » SMEs and the Web - Executive Summary. SEOmoz | Beginner's Guide to SEO - Single Page Version. MORE
A Nina sample On Friday I was part of the This Week in Law vidcast, hosted by my it’s-been-too-long friend Denise Howell [twitter: dhowell ], along with Nina Paley [twitter: ninapaley">ninapaley ]. Nina’s work is gorgeous + righteous. You must see it. That is an order.) MORE
These include samples in China, India and Singapore and for female leaders, since the original samples of executives in the early 80s were mostly male. This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site. MORE
Ideally, with your sample population. How should we design? It’s all well and good to spout principles, but putting them into practice is another thing. While we always would like to follow learning science, there’re not always all the answers we need. MORE
I read a little while back that a team at Stanford and elsewhere had developed a program that could accurately diagnose breast cancer by doing digital image processing of tissue sample. ” The trained C-Path software was then set to work analyzing a separate set of 328 Canadian samples. MORE
The sample skewed toward upper management, - one-third of respondents were C-level executives and 35% were senior managers. MORE
My better half recently got a sample of special butter. A gift from a co-worker (an interesting story), and led me to reflect on the link between passion and learning. M’lady’s co-worker is a fan of good butter. MORE
This study sampled 35,000 managers and employees across the globe. A Revolution or a Slow Demise? I’ve recently read Clark Quinn’s excellent new ‘Revolutionize Learning & Development’ book. Clark always provides a thoughtful and enlightening perspective. MORE
So for the first one, they wanted some feedback on their design, and we arranged that I’d investigate a representative sample and provide feedback. There were also some places where they’d managed to have some errors that had passed editorial (and this was only a small sample of a replicated model across a broad curriculum). MORE
Since it is a common test, I’ve been doing a power analysis for a two-sample (two-sided) t-test, for small, medium and large effects (as conventionally defined ). the required sample size increases drammatically as power drops. MORE
You can read a sample here , or buy it here. My sister-in-law’s new book is out: Re-visions: Stories from Stories, by Meredith Sue Willis. She re-tells classic stories from a different point of view. I haven’t read it yet — I just ordered it — but I’m willing to bet it’s excellent. Sue (as we call her) has the fiction writer’s gift of bringing people and places to life. How does she do that MORE
Based on my post LMS RFP , I've been asked several times if I knew where you could find samples of Request for Proposals (RFPs) for custom eLearning development, performance support tools, learning content management systems (LCMS), elearning authoring tools , etc. MORE
The first is what they call n=all, that is, collect and use lots of data rather than settling for small samples, as statisticians have done until now. “The The way people handled the problem of capturing information in the past was through sampling. MORE
Sample here.) Give podcasting full respect by making it a search heading. Bing should do it too. Also DuckDuckGo. In fact all search engines should make podcasts a search heading. Simple as that. If they make podcasts a search heading, they’ll make podcasting too big a category to fracture into a forest of silos. This doesn’t mean Apple, Spotify and others can’t continue to offer subscriptions and other forms of aggregation. Or that ListenNotes will go out of business. MORE
website for more information, sample graphics, and a substantial excerpt. The draft of my new book, Aha!, 21 Ways to Work Smarter and Become Who You Are , is on sale for $12. I don’t write books the way I used to. I have Lean Fever. MORE
BPS Research reports a recent article containing a series of small studies that shows "retail therapy" does work -- at least in a sample of young American consumers. Bob Sutton. About Subscribe to this blogs feed Email Me Follow Me @ work_matters. Book Me For A Speech. Brightsight Group. Search. 17 Things I Believe. Sometimes the best management is no management at all -- first do no harm! Indifference is as important as passion. MORE
Sample Related Topics Mind Hacks
MAY 8, 2015
Polls rely on sampling – the basic idea being that you don’t have to ask everyone to get a rough idea of how things are going to go. This is the issue of sampling error. Sampling error, as I’ve mentioned, but also sampling bias.
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Tony Karrer
JANUARY 29, 2008
Based on my post LMS RFP , I've been asked several times if I knew where you could find samples of Request for Proposals (RFPs) for custom eLearning development, performance support tools, learning content management systems (LCMS), elearning authoring tools , etc.
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Please note that this is an entirely unscientific, non-significant sampling. A couple of weeks ago, I happened to come across a few Wikipedia articles that struck me as too hard. I started getting worried that Wikipedia’s constant review process was resulting in articles inching up the Technical Accuracy pole while slipping down the Intelligibility for Non-Experts pole.
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward.
Mind Hacks
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Recently, psychologists have developed the experience sampling method to try and make sample the stream of consciousness a little more systematic. The New York Times has a fascinating article revisiting a classic problem in psychology of whether our accounts of our individual 'streams of consciousness' have any useful role in the scientific understanding the mind.
Nancy White
AUGUST 26, 2008
Here is a sampling of stuff that has caught my eye, and why.
Mark Oehlert
DECEMBER 7, 2007
" Product Description: Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Generational Change in the U.S. Military (strategy+business) | Main | 2007 edublog winners announced!
Mark Oehlert
MARCH 26, 2008
For specific samples, we asked Download.com to send us adwareand spyware theyve seen in the wild, to better replicate the examplesyou are likely to encounter on your own, not theoretical or "zoo"examples.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
My better half recently got a sample of special butter. A gift from a co-worker (an interesting story), and led me to reflect on the link between passion and learning. M’lady’s co-worker is a fan of good butter.
Dave Snowden
AUGUST 27, 2019
They would then go and interview maybe 10/15 organisations using a strong hypothesis and from that sample draw conclusions that would be published. .
Mind Hacks
JULY 23, 2015
One concern, however, is that online samples may be less motivated to pay attention to the tasks they are participating in. Online testing is sure to play a large part in the future of Psychology.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 3, 2013
The first is what they call n=all, that is, collect and use lots of data rather than settling for small samples, as statisticians have done until now. “The The way people handled the problem of capturing information in the past was through sampling.
Charles Jennings
JULY 10, 2017
These include samples in China, India and Singapore and for female leaders, since the original samples of executives in the early 80s were mostly male. This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 20, 2019
Compared with GDP, we are only able to provide a relatively coarse estimate of changes in consumer surplus given our sample size… Future work should use more massive sample sizes… Another limitation of our study is that it is biased toward people using the internet.
Doc Searls
MAY 11, 2019
Sample here.) Give podcasting full respect by making it a search heading. Bing should do it too. Also DuckDuckGo. In fact all search engines should make podcasts a search heading. Simple as that. If they make podcasts a search heading, they’ll make podcasting too big a category to fracture into a forest of silos. This doesn’t mean Apple, Spotify and others can’t continue to offer subscriptions and other forms of aggregation. Or that ListenNotes will go out of business.
Jay Cross
MARCH 1, 2015
You may want to sample. I bailed out of the Wisdom 2.0 conference Main Stage events yesterday afternoon and missed the opportunity to see Jon Kabat Zinn , whom I only know from his books and tapes: Jon is a god. I revere him. He moves mountains.
Mind Hacks
JUNE 19, 2015
Since it is a common test, I’ve been doing a power analysis for a two-sample (two-sided) t-test, for small, medium and large effects (as conventionally defined ). the required sample size increases drammatically as power drops.
Clark Quinn
JULY 23, 2008
Brobst Systems - Ready-made Website Templates and Themes - Free Samples Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management | Intelligent Agent. Martin De Saulles » SMEs and the Web - Executive Summary. SEOmoz | Beginner's Guide to SEO - Single Page Version.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 1, 2018
These advanced statistical methods have enabled the creation of AI algorithms that can be trained with lots and lots of sample inputs instead of being explicitly programmed.
David Weinberger
JUNE 22, 2014
A Nina sample On Friday I was part of the This Week in Law vidcast, hosted by my it’s-been-too-long friend Denise Howell [twitter: dhowell ], along with Nina Paley [twitter: ninapaley">ninapaley ]. Nina’s work is gorgeous + righteous. You must see it. That is an order.)
Jay Cross
MAY 5, 2015
website for more information, sample graphics, and a substantial excerpt. The draft of my new book, Aha!, 21 Ways to Work Smarter and Become Who You Are , is on sale for $12. I don’t write books the way I used to. I have Lean Fever.
Charles Jennings
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
By almost any standards the sample in this study was large – 8,500 cases drawn from 14 organisations across six industries in nine countries. A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development.
Charles Jennings
AUGUST 13, 2016
These include samples in China, India and Singapore and for female leaders, since the original samples of executives in the early 80s were mostly male. This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site.
George Siemens
JULY 8, 2013
In recent presentations, I’ve been positioning MOOCs in terms of the complexification of higher education (see below for sample presentation). I’ve said this many times over the past six months: If 2012 was the year of the MOOC, 2013 will be the year of the anti-MOOC. Things are unfolding nicely according to plan. Faculty don’t like MOOCs. Critiquing MOOCs is now more fashionable than advocating for them.
Nine Shift
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Students are allowed to sample classes before they have to register for them." . Here's a disturbing story about how good teaching and learning is being killed by college football. Calstate was put on NCAA probation for practicing good teaching and learning!
Andy McAfee
DECEMBER 8, 2011
I read a little while back that a team at Stanford and elsewhere had developed a program that could accurately diagnose breast cancer by doing digital image processing of tissue sample. ” The trained C-Path software was then set to work analyzing a separate set of 328 Canadian samples.
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2015
Nine out of ten companies sampled by Altimeter are engaged in one or more digital transformation practices: These efforts are being championed by the Chief Marketing Officer, the CEO, and occasionally the CIO.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Every year, the BLS collects data on workplace injuries from a sample of around 200,000 institutions.
Clark Quinn
JULY 17, 2018
Ideally, with your sample population. How should we design? It’s all well and good to spout principles, but putting them into practice is another thing. While we always would like to follow learning science, there’re not always all the answers we need.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 4, 2014
Not everyone we could and should’ve gotten, but a representative sample across sectors of some of the most respected folks in the industry that we could reach out to in short order.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 26, 2016
So for the first one, they wanted some feedback on their design, and we arranged that I’d investigate a representative sample and provide feedback. There were also some places where they’d managed to have some errors that had passed editorial (and this was only a small sample of a replicated model across a broad curriculum).
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 27, 2019
His book ‘The Nature of Managerial Work’ found that more than half of managers’ time in his sample was spent in meetings.” I listened to a podcast recently where Steven Rogelberg was interviewed about his 2019 book — The Surprising Science of Meetings.
Nigel Paine
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Interview a sample of participants and ask for their views. Interview a sample of line managers and ask what changes they have noticed. Sample customer satisfaction. Ask what performance changes you want to see and then measure them. Use the staff survey as an indicator of change. Measure increases in activity following on from the training. Ask the participants to comment one month or three months on about the continuing benefits.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Summary of a talk by Baltasar Fernandex Manjon at CELDA 2019 ie.ft.com/uber-game Serious games - Have been used successfully in many domains – medicine, military - But low adoption in mainstream education - So we say we’re working in ‘game-like simulation’ [link] - Fake news, trolls, e-influencers [link] [link] [link] - Has been formally evaluated Citizen science - Uses games for crowdsourcing Also: - Educational versions of commercial games Do serious games actually work?
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 2, 2013
One of the sample reports we offer prospective SenseMaker® customers is from a pilot project we completed on critical incidents in healthcare. It’s only working with a diversity of many perspectives can we get objectively closer to a more authentic sense of reality.
Eide Neurolearning
AUGUST 13, 2012
In general, 2nd-3rd graders will switching a counting strategy to math facts retrieval when doing arithmetic, but these researchers found "considerable variation in the mix of strategies used to solve these problems.Retrieval fluency related to grade level in this sample.".
George Siemens
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
A recent sampling of their thinking: From Kate: I really think the measure of our capacity to call ourselves a community relates to our responses in a whole range of situations for which there can’t be laws or even social demands, but only instinct… and that’s where I think we are with our transactions, our struggling social communities, our networks, the places and persons that we care for.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 8, 2019
The sample skewed toward upper management, - one-third of respondents were C-level executives and 35% were senior managers.
David Weinberger
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
You can read a sample here , or buy it here. My sister-in-law’s new book is out: Re-visions: Stories from Stories, by Meredith Sue Willis. She re-tells classic stories from a different point of view. I haven’t read it yet — I just ordered it — but I’m willing to bet it’s excellent. Sue (as we call her) has the fiction writer’s gift of bringing people and places to life. How does she do that
Charles Jennings
JULY 7, 2014
This study sampled 35,000 managers and employees across the globe. A Revolution or a Slow Demise? I’ve recently read Clark Quinn’s excellent new ‘Revolutionize Learning & Development’ book. Clark always provides a thoughtful and enlightening perspective.
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