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Good infographic of the top 3 device features designers report using for mobile learning: wifi connectivity (74%); audio/video player (64%); browser capability (61%). Reports that 34% of organizations have mobile learning programs. from edtechllearninginfographics.com

GAO report that is focused on the contingent workforce. It defines a core contingent of workers as those who have no real regular work, and they make up 7.9 % of the workforce. All contingent workers represent 40.4% of the population currently, with 32.5% being more of contracted and longer-term contracted workers.

The Chronicle of Research Services issued this report: The College 2020: Students. Although from 2013, it has a great section on a poll from students who identified the rigidity of University learning was stifling them. Their suggestions included customizable text books, mobile learning, and self-directed curricula.

Enrollment in Distance Education Courses by State: Fall 2012 from a USDOE Web Tables report from June 2014. Interestingly, black and native American colleges offered the least number of online courses.

site of Scott Dinsmore's Live Your Legend org. The tag line is: change the world by doing work you love. This online site helps you connect with others who are seeking their passion, are already doing what you want to do or something like it, and then finding guidance, support, and connections through the online and f2f forums. The site offers free tools to help you quit your job and do something you love.

From jobsearch.about.com. Interesting that listening to your gut is on this list, as is a toxic work environment, going back to school, getting another job, changing careers.

from Forbes.com, Leadership: Jeanne Meister reports that the average worker today stays at each of his or her jobs for 4.4 years, millennials for less than 3 years, and Gen Y for less than 2. The changing landscape of the economy as well as the desire for younger generations to have challenging, fulfilling work results in this job-hopping. For Gen Y, it is a necessity as they are hard pressed to find consistent, full time work any other way.

Interesting article in the NYT by Taffy Brodesser-Akner from Dec. 28, 2013 about the life coach, Martha Beck, who has built a multimillion-dollar business on helping executives, and others, find their passion and what they want to do with their lives. Her biggest money maker is her certification process for her method of life coaching. She trains others and they pay for the courses, pay for the certification, pay to have her seal on their websites.

from Business Insider, March 3, 2015 by Drake Baer. Baer quotes the biographer of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, as having a conversation with Jobs about "follow your passion". Jobs thought that following your passion was on a higher context - giving back to society and the community - than a lower context - individualistic, career-focused. To Jobs, following your passion had to include making society better. Baer uses the stat " there are 1,300 business books about "passion" on Amazon.

Article on how the book, Lean In, is impacting men and minority groups as well as women. Male Lean In groups have sprung up to discuss men's roles in promoting and supporting women, and minority groups have started Lean In Circles to address discrimination they have encountered (Asian groups).

Very interesting article from the NYTimes on how mindfulness has taken hold in Silicon Valley encouraging tech workers and beyond to take time out, meditate even for a minute, and creating new apps to help you do it. Google has a course on mindfulness that sells out whenever offered. Rebranding mindfulness from groovey discipline to way to clear your head to increase productivity, prioritize to do lists, unclutter your work life.

Interesting workshop on using instagram, pinterest, infographics for visual storytelling in your business. Thought we could look at this as a model for these types of workshops for us.

When exploring new offers, some organizations spend a lot of valuable time and energy trying to decide what name to use. This slideshare offers some very interesting and useful apps to help with the process.

Slideshare on why content curation is the new form of communication, and professional content curators are the new superheros. Nice graphics and a clear message about information overload and how people will capitalize and monetize this.

Great short YouTube video via twitter on the joy of trying something new, the joy of failure, and the joy of practice = learning. Mike Wesch does a handstand for his students to show he is learning how to do them, then shows his young son George learning to climb down a stair step. Fun, yet gets the point across that failure is a big part of learning, as is practice.

Amazing TED talk by an Italian artist who created a global community to help him cure his brain cancer. He created a web site, La Cura (the cure) and posted his brain scans online, inviting anyone to help him heal as a whole person. His site went viral and he received over 500,000 contacts. Through his site, he formed his team of neurosurgeons, oncologists, and several thousand people who were there for his cure as a person, not just for his cancer. He offers his open source model as one for anyone to do, for as he says, it is not just healing for himself, but healing for all of us that matters.

Book that has 2 sections: Global Networks Virtual Issues and Transnational Citizenship. 2014. Taking stock of what we know about the Information Age with no stabilization of its complex social, technological and political arrangements.

8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom by Laura Moorhead from ideas.ted.com. Although geared toward k-12, this has some good advice for teachers such as not co-opting the social media most used for personal connections and fun (FB), no app is going to do everything, sharing ones passion and exploration with students is a good thing, and bringing in social learning is key - let the students explore and help each other. The technology and apps should support them to do this, not drive the content.

A group of friends in Mexico, all entrepreneurs, started talking about their failed ventures. The conversation engendered such deep learning and reflection, they created a regular meeting where they modified the Japanese Petcha-Kutcha model of presenting slides for and narrating the slides for a very brief time. The Mexico group named these f2f thriving on failure group Fuck Up night. Others around the world began to hear about the FuckUp night via social media, and soon were asking the Mexico group if they could replicate the model. Now FuckUp nights are global, and the original group only asks that the model be followed, and any slides and videos of the presentations be shared with the world on the fuckup nights website.

A group of friends in Mexico, all entrepreneurs, started talking about their failed ventures. The conversation engendered such deep learning and reflection, they created a regular meeting where they modified the Japanese Petcha-Kutcha model of presenting slides for and narrating the slides for a very brief time. The Mexico group named these f2f thriving on failure group Fuck Up night. Others around the world began to hear about the FuckUp night via social media, and soon were asking the Mexico group if they could replicate the model. Now FuckUp nights are global, and the original group only asks that the model be followed, and any slides and videos of the presentations be shared with the world on the fuckup nights website.

" A businessman tries to break through a line of Occupy Wall Street protesters in November 2011. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images" Impact of the networked global movement of Occupy and the lasting messages that are still being carried today, such as income inequality, student loan debt, environmental practices, the minimum wage.