Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past week I’ve been heavily involved in helping to judge this year’s E-Learning Awards. I used to have a role in administrating them, but I never got to see any of the entries. Last year and this I’ve been on the panels for several of the categories and it’s been a real eye-opener. First and foremost, the experience has lifted my spirits. I get so much flack from trainers about boring e-learning that nobody wants to do, that sometimes I despair that we’ll ever get it right.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week I wrote about the first of the new directions in self-study e-learning that I had noticed - the use of social interactions. Today I explore another - the use of scrolling pages to replace the slide to slide mechanism that dominates so much e-learning. Sometime back in the mists of time, when Jakob Nielsen was establishing his web usability standards, it became received wisdom that web users dislike scrolling - far better to present information in small chunks that appear 'above

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