I had a chance to give a presentation to the South Florida ASTD chapter virtually this evening, would have loved to have been there in person. Here are some resources and posts related to today’s webinar: Article in Training Quarterly: Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. The beauty and curse of technology. Anyway, here are the slides and some resources. Here are the slides from the presentation: Gadgets, Games and Google For Learning South FL Presentation. View more presentations from Karl Kapp. Game Levels and Scaffolding–They’re Related. Design MORE >>

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we recently supported ASTD research on Mobile Learning , a report around that was released in May 2012. ASTD conducted a free webinar on that research report this week. iPad rules the market : John pointed out to a Forbes article that lists 50 largest deployments of iPads. The speakers at the webinar were Kevin Oakes (founder & CEO of i4CP, earlier founder of Click2Learn which was merged with Docent to form SumTotal) and John Polaschek (Sr. Manager, Learning Technology at Qualcomm). Is mobile learning really happening? MORE >>

Articles. 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. 'Sharon Boller, Steve Boller and Leanne Batchelder from Bottom Line Performance co-presented a workshop on game design and here are the slides and some other resources related to the workshop which you may find helpful. The workshop is called “Play to Learn.” Raptivity(Games Pack). MORE >>

Here is an end-of-the-year roundup of eLearning and related articles you might find helpful, interesting or enjoyable. These eight articles by Donald Clark extrapolate describe an approach for agile learning and training design. This link takes you to the final article, so you can see the list of previous ones. Jay Cross lays out some excellent reasons for organizations to incorporate informal learning into their overall training strategy in this article. His robust list of resources link to articles and guides for using this service more effectively. Buzz up! MORE >>

All these articles talk about the importance of usability testing, learnability testing for e-learning courses. The big question: the impact of brain science on e-learning design - Clive on Learning , July 2, 2010 The Big Question for July on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is “Does the discussion of ‘how the brain learns’ impact your elearning design?” Designed for Learning , July 24, 2010 I recently read an article in The Economist highlighting a report that shows that “the rate of growth of blogs has slowed in many parts of the world. Best of eLearning Learning. MORE >>