But let me now take you behind the scenes, into the world of us e-learning developers. These are my top seven tips for developing effective e-learning in line with the WCA accessibility guidelines. Instructional designers, graphic designers and developers need to work closely together at the design stage of a project to develop effectively and accessible e-learning. Accessibility Blog Development e-LearningInclude the equivalent text alternative for all graphics and images. This is similar to alt text used in html sites. Use colour effectively. Final thoughts. MORE >>

Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. Fall 2011 Training Industry Quarterly Article: Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. July 2012 T&D Article: Games, Gamification and the Quest for Interactive Learning. Fall 2012 Training Industry Quarterly Article 5 Gaming Elements for elearning. Wow, had a great 3 days at DevLearn, met some absolutely wonderful, fascinating and brilliant folks. Saw a bunch colleagues and friends, and had lots of fun in the Gamification Workshop. So the slides to the Gamification workshop can be found here. 2006). MORE >>

Personal and Professional Development – 51.4%. Leadership Development/Performance Management – 40%. As for personal and professional development, it truly amazes me how many vendors in the e-learning space as a whole, forget this type of training. On another front, the number one reason people leave their company is lack of personal and professional development (according to research collected from various orgs. book publishing and development – 60%. The data shows that what many vendors assume end users want is far from accurate. Survey. MORE >>

link] December 2, 2011 Getting Research to Researchers in Developing Countries : Examples from East and Southern Africa, sponsored by Publishers for Development, Charles Darwin House, London, The United Kingdom. link] December 3-7, 2011 National Staff Development Council (NSDC): Capture the Magic, Anaheim, California, USA. link] December 8-10, 2011 International Conference on International Higher Education , sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, Shanghai, China. link] March 11-13, 2012 BrainStorm 13.0: Private? MORE >>

Working Smarter Daily points to ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 ” Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. JULY 16, 2012. JULY 25, 2012. We can officially declare massive open online courses (MOOCs) as the higher education buzzword for 2012. OCTOBER 1, 2012. Top Tools 2012. MAY 23, 2012. MORE >>