Clive on Learning

AUGUST 7, 2014

A right first time approach works if you are building skyscrapers or making Hollywood movies. But in an era in which software apps and web content are updated almost constantly and usually painlessly, there is simply no argument for treating e-learning content as if we were making $100m movies or printing books.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 7, 2007

Jane Hart asked me to come up with a list of my top ten tools. I'm going to include IE7 under this heading, which is probably the tool I use the most after Outlook – the improvements such as tabbed browsing mean that it has caught up with Firefox (sounds like some form of heresy). I use Office so much that it has to be on the list.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Rapid development tools are by definition going to adopt a position towards the 'easy-to-use' end of the scale, even though this usually means compromising on functionality. When I bumped into Tony Lowe at the ALT-C conference in Leeds, he told me about a tool he'd created called Dragster. It has a game-like feel.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I've been taking a look at an early version of RapideL's new online e-learning authoring tool, which they are calling RapideL-i. I've previously experimented with their desktop tool, RapideL Enhance, which works with Microsoft Word to generate Flash-based courses, but this is a big step forward.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

The form may be a simple interactive tutorial, a short video, a podcast, a screen capture movie, a PowerPoint or a PDF. tools for informal learning. Rapid development The lower tier would be 'good enough' digital content, designed to communicate simple information or provide basic knowledge without fuss.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

In The Media Equation by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass (Cambridge University Press, 1996), the authors make some profound and non-intuitive assertions about the ways in which people relate to computers and TVs. Among these are the following: Audio fidelity will attract attention to media. So, audio fidelity does matter.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Technology also empowers people to do things for themselves that they previously might have left to the professionals - take pictures and make movies, compose music and, most importantly of all, publish your views to the world at large, using simple web pages, blogs, podcasts and forums. IQ scores have been steadily rising by 0.31

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