thoughts

Learning & Development

Specialization is for insects – breadth versus depth in learning

By James Tyas on Jun 24, 2019

How Slack can unlock learning in the flow of work

By Sam Franklin on Jun 18, 2019

Learning & Development

Why we've all had enough of bad recommendations

By James Wann on Jun 6, 2019

Learning & Development

Path(way)s

By Marc Zao-Sanders on May 20, 2019

Learning & Development

Microsoft Teams (Part 3): Putting magpie into the flow of work

By James Tyas on May 13, 2019

Learning & Development

Liverpool, leadership & learning

By Marc Zao-Sanders on May 8, 2019

Learning & Development

Rethinking the Training Needs Analysis (Part 1)

By Toby Harris on May 6, 2019

Algorithms

Does your machine learning learn?

By Toby Harris on Apr 23, 2019

Learning in the flow of work

Microsoft Teams: the near-future of work (Part 2)

By James Tyas on Apr 16, 2019

Learning in the flow of work

Microsoft Teams: the near-future of work

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Apr 9, 2019

Data

6 data principles of magpie

By Chris Littlewood on Mar 26, 2019

Launching a learning initiative

L&D: Think like a marketer

By Natalie Campbell-Reid on Mar 19, 2019

Algorithms

How does magpie make learning recommendations?

By Chris Littlewood on Mar 7, 2019

Learning analytics

Bird's-eye view of L&D challenges

By Chris Littlewood on Feb 12, 2019

Research

Do something now

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Feb 7, 2019

Challenges in Learning

Nine problems we want to talk about

By Toby Harris on Jan 31, 2019

Artificial Intelligence

Hello World: The truth about AI in L&D

By Natalie Campbell-Reid on Dec 19, 2018

Technology

Learning at big companies (Part 4) - Microsoft

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Dec 12, 2018

Technology

Learning at big companies (Part 3) - APIs

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Dec 3, 2018

Learning analytics

What do L&D people learn?

By Chris Littlewood on Nov 30, 2018

Personalization

Learning at big companies (Part 2)

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Nov 26, 2018

Big Companies

Learning at big companies

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Nov 19, 2018

What magpie is not

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Nov 16, 2018

Learner engagement

In-house or external content - what's the right mix?

By Chris Littlewood on Nov 12, 2018

Technology

Hands-Free Learning

By Sam Hennessy on Nov 1, 2018

Less

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Oct 29, 2018

Learner engagement

Avoiding format-preference silos

By Chris Littlewood on Oct 19, 2018

How does magpie pay for itself?

By Toby Harris on Oct 15, 2018

Learner engagement

Fitting Learning to the Learner

By Chris Littlewood on Oct 12, 2018

What is magpie?

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Oct 8, 2018

Learner engagement

What we learnt from teaching 1 million consumers

By Adam Lacey on Oct 2, 2018

LXP-Rex

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Sep 28, 2018

Learning & Development

Personalization who?

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Sep 20, 2018

Further reflections on 70/20/10

By Toby Harris on Sep 6, 2018

Learning from launching our own learning initiative

By Rob MacAllister on Jun 21, 2018

Learning

Let’s ditch 70/20/10 and all L&D mantras

By Toby Harris on Jun 12, 2018

Tough on learning, Tough on the causes of learning

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Jun 6, 2018

Learner engagement

6 steps for quality content curation

Fewer jam options will make you happier...

By Rich Ward on May 4, 2018

Learning recommendations

Targeting the UK's productivity deficit

By Chris Littlewood on Apr 20, 2018

Algorithms etc

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Apr 4, 2018

Artificial Intelligence

Bad Data, Perfect Content

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Mar 20, 2018

How does a learning company launch a learning initiative?

By Rob MacAllister on Mar 9, 2018

Stop being an expert. Try something new.

By Kata Szkopkowska on Mar 6, 2018

Metrics, medicine, magpie and Marc

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Feb 28, 2018

Kind recommendations

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Feb 28, 2018

Launching a learning initiative

The Launch Playbook - How to Launch a New Learning Initiative

By Adam Lacey on Feb 21, 2018

Artificial Intelligence

Introducing magpie

By Chris Littlewood on Feb 16, 2018

I'm 10% sure you'll like this. But I'm not AI.

By James Wann on Feb 5, 2018

“Netflix for learning” - don’t be fooled!

By Vinit Patel on Jan 28, 2018

Research

The productivity price of skills

By Chris Littlewood on Dec 11, 2017

Human Intelligence

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Dec 7, 2017

Learning

Bring AI

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Nov 29, 2017

Technology

Work Technologies

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Nov 10, 2017

Productivity

More than skills

By Marc Zao-Sanders on Sep 22, 2017

Technology

Continuous Learning - A Hackers Guide

By Adam Lacey on Sep 13, 2017

Algorithms

Patiently pending

By Chris Littlewood on Sep 7, 2017

Technology

Unsupported L&D, unsupported browsers

By Juan D'Achiardi on Jun 23, 2017

Productivity

The real problem with learning technologies? "The learner”

By Toby Harris on May 18, 2017

Artificial Intelligence

Language processing, AI, and L&D

By Chris Littlewood on Jul 18, 2016