Clive on Learning
MAY 28, 2009
The following brief article appeared last week in the Economist: "The share of software on personal computers that is pirated rose to 41% last year, according to a report by the Business Software Alliance, a trade group, and ICD, a market-research firm. A further 44% is paid for. The rest is free or open-source. Piracy rates are falling in half of all countries and stable in another third.
Clive on Learning
MAY 26, 2009
Rule 9: Stimulate more of the senses My review of John Medina's book continues with this exploration of the power of multi-sensory learning experiences: "By the time we came out of the trees, our ancestors were encountering a multisensory world and were already champions at experiencing it." "You might hypothesise that our learning abilities are increasingly optimised the more multisensory the environment becomes.
Clive on Learning
MAY 29, 2009
In an anonymous reply to my posting yesterday on the pirating of PC software, an elearning developer asked "How do real people actually afford/justify purchasing something like the Adobe eLearning Suite?" He'd tried open source and free software but had to admit that, as far as e-learning development software was concerned, "Adobe is still king and will remain so for our foreseeable future.
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