People who create eLearning get involved in many types of content development tasks. In addition to researching and developing content for courses, you may find yourself creating training manuals for webinars or the classroom, writing web copy, making reference materials, and developing Electronic Performance Support Systems, Help documentation, presentations and so on. During all of these tasks, you will be organizing content at a high level to give it a meaningful structure. The content on this page is organized alphabetically. Some content has a flat structure. MORE >>

Game mechanics, scoring, points, time elements, pattern seeking, item matching, content ratings are quickly working their way into almost every element of life. is this the result of most training classes or online learning experiences? ). If you want to veer a way from the philosophical implications and implements some games for learning, check out Schell’s book, I use it for my instructional game design class and find it effective for conveying game concepts. Content GuideSee the fascinating future he envisions by watching the video below. Very behavioristic. MORE >>

There are many misconceptions about the gamification of learning and instruction, here are some things that gamification is not. Trivialization of Learning —Gamification is not a cheapening or dilution of “real learning.” Serious learning scenarios are undertaken within game spaces all the time from military games, to sales incentives, to practicing medical procedures or preparing for standardized tests gamified learning can, and is, difficult, challenging and stressful. Do not think of games for learning in the same way as you think of games for children. MORE >>

The RCAT (rapid content authoring tool) market continues to be healthy with nothing to slow it down – uh, except maybe one thing (more on that later). This will become one of the biggest features in 2012 – especially with people wanting to create simulations without being an e-learning developer. absolutely hate this – as it has damaged the content authoring tool space. Lack of easy to use – You would think, rapid content authoring tool – i.e. “rapid”, means you need it quickly – at least for some folks. It isn’t. MORE >>

Last week I wrote about content management and content access for on-demand learning, as described by Mark Vickers of Bersin and Associated. As a subset of this, I’d like to raise the role of content curator in workplace learning. Who is a content curator? good content curator is someone who: Is keeny interested in a [.]. Performance support tools Workplace learning MORE >>