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Remembering the people

blog post image Please suggest some technology that might help ... but remind me who you are first. What do you use to keep track of everyone that you work with, live near, party with, study with, or just share time with? Mere humans can only maintain about 150 close relationships (Dunbar's number) so just wondering...
Source: wikipedia.org

Building customer relationships with conversational AI

We’ve all been there. “Please listen to our entire menu as our options have changed. Say or press one for product information…” Sometimes, these automated customer service experiences are effective and efficient—other times, not so much. Many organizations are already using chatbots and virtual...
Source: technologyreview.com

Over 27,000 students share how colleges and universities could improve digital learning

"A Jisc survey of 27,069 higher and further education students reveals that most are pleased with their digital learning, but areas such as wellbeing, mental health and staff digital skills need more attention." Get the basics right (like college WiFi)Make learning sessions more interactive Record lessons...
Source: jisc.ac.uk

Corporate bollox generator

blog post image Over the holiday season I have been fine-tuning a new improved "corporate bollox generator" which can now deliver whole sentences of management goop. Please feel free to give it a go. It is written in Javascript and generates random phrases by linking adverbs, verbs, adjectives, and nouns all selected...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Video for learning

Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Great summary of recent evidence from Donald Clark. What can we learn from Netflix? (Use technology appropriately not just the buzzwords) Episodic vs. Semantic memory (Remembering the right things from video isn't as easy as you think)...
Source: blogspot.com

Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine.

Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine. I have been working on this with colleagues at Royal Cornwall Hospital as an educational tool that can run on any mobile device and (when it is wrapped into an Android or iOS...
Source: github.com

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories. As usual, our list focuses on inpatient and intensive care topics that most of us see in our daily practice. We hope that you find this list...
Source: jwatch.org

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased to present the Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016. The selection of the 10 best stories was, as always, difficult, with more than 200 summaries published in the past year that inform...
Source: jwatch.org