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Elevate Your Instructional Design With The Distributed Learning Model As learners' needs constantly evolve, the "anytime, anywhere" approach will continue to take over how we educate ourselves and others.…

After more than a decade of Mac-centric computing, I made a big switch last month, setting aside my MacBook Pro and moving to an Alienware Aurora R13 desktop as my primary day-to-day computer. While the proliferation of cloud-based…

You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from a company called Knack, where a person is a server in a busy sushi restaurant. How can that be effective at…

Agapanthus is as blue as a Sydney summer sky and just as reliable (give or take a la Nina year). But this old garden standby has a dark side: it’s on the weed watch list in NSW, where it has already invaded bushland in the Blue Mountains…

The authors say the economic effects of the Black Death interacted with changes in social and cultural institutions – accepted beliefs about how people should behave. Serfdom went into decline in Western Europe because of the fewer…

Each fortnight, Stephanie Darling gets inside the head of an industry expert or media personality. This week, she talks to founder and creative director of sport-luxe label The Upside, Jodhi Meares. “My vision for The Upside came to me when…

Carlie says she has “always felt the emotions of others really deeply”. The 35-year-old is not only sensitive to how others feel, she then takes on their emotions herself.Most empaths don’t need to take a test to know they’re one; they just…

I’m the last person to see parenting as an easy, one-way ticket to non-stop joy and a boosted self-esteem.As one of my children said to me not long ago, with the blithe tone of someone reeling off a grocery list: “My excitement, my passion,…

Dave’s advice is to take time getting to know someone before you meet in person. “We noticed people chatting to each other online for much longer than usual during lockdown, and they’re having conversations with multiple people at once,” he…