We Think

Charles Leadbetter's latest book exploring how the internet is changing our world, and creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate.  Read the review.

Creating Successful ELearning

Michael Allen's book on a rapid approach to e-learning development. Read the review.

Wikinomics - Tapscott & Williams

The whole world’s collaborating – and that raises big questions for learning professionals. Read the Kineo Review.

Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System

"Using Moodle" is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that explains how the system works, with plenty of examples and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Authored by a member of the Moodle community.

Moodle E-learning Course Development

 A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices.

Blink

Love is the Killer App

The Big Idea of this book is that the best business strategy is to :

• Learn as much as you can. Read, digest, get to grips with the big ideas
  
• Grow a network and share your knowledge with them
• Be compassionate. Use your senses and feel free to express yourself.

Basically, don't be aggressive, don't be hostile. Be smart and be nice!

Read our full review here.  

The Medici Effect 

The big idea in the book the 'The Medici Effect' is that breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into new, unfamiliar territory. In this space—which the author Johansson calls "the Intersection"—established ideas clash and combine with insights from other fields, disciplines, and cultures, resulting in an explosion of totally new ideas.

The core principles to creating an Intersection are:

• breaking down associative barriers
• routinely combining unlike concepts 

 Read our full review here.

The Tipping Point 

In his famous book Michael Gladwell argues that trends in social behaviours spread like epidemics.

In looking at what creates social and behavioural epidemics Gladwell came up with three key factors:

• The law of the few
• The stickiness factor
• The power of context

Gladwell’s analysis provides you with a structure for reviewing who you need to engage to maximise your project's chances of success.

Read our full review here. 

Learning by Doing 

For many of us Schank and Aldrich, have been the main advocates of the 'learn by doing' model.

This book covers the various types of simulations from branching simulations to role playing. 

A book that will make you think again about your learning design. 

Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants 

One of favourite guides to practical marketing. So many tips and pieces of advice. Just a few to get you going:

• create trust, don't sell
• deliver value
• stimulate dialogue and discussion
• exude professionalism

Good to Great 

Jim Collins argues that leaders that combine extreme personal humility with intense professional will, that shun the attention of celebrity, are the ones that make good companies great.

What the research found was that  the leaders who had turned good companies into great companies had what Collins termed level 5 leadership. They had the following characteristics:

• They set up successors for success.
  
• They are compellingly modest.
  
• They have unwavering resolve.
  

Google Story 

David A.Vise takes us on the amazing journey of Google, from Stanford research project in 1998 to one of the most trusted - and valuable - companies on earth today. Learn how the Google guys make decisions, get new ideas - and even what they have for lunch.

Not sure? Read our review.