Now PDP for anyone that doesn’t work in corporate organisations stands for Personal Development Plan and it’s effectively a place to capture your development plans and to record progress. The expectation would be to record how well ‘the development’ has supported and helped deliver against what it was there to do in the first place. Instead, I’m going to use a quotation and an analogy to bring to life what Twitter has provided me in terms of my own professional and personal development and ability to connect with people and access information. MORE >>

Canvas - Web developers can now create 2D drawings controlled by JavaScript. Key benefit is that web developers can do this using JavaScript directly in HTML 5 without relying on technologies like Flash or Silverlight. Interactive Elements – details, datagrid, command & menu These are interactive elements included for development of web applications. This would help the web developers display data in structured formats and make it easier to implement. How does HTML 5 affect eLearning Development? eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4? MORE >>

A question I am constantly asked is “How long does it take to develop…&# you can fill in the rest with Instructor-led training, elearning, simulations, etc. Several people have attempted to answer that question in 2003 I gathered data and information about the times it takes to develop instruction and then my colleague Robyn Defelice and I explored the idea in 2009. so we wrote a follow up article, Reducing the Time to Develop One Hour of Instruction where Robyn and I looked at several reasons why it take so long and suggested some ideas to reduce that time. MORE >>

was asked to present on tools for developing mLearning. Instead, I focused on free and cheap frameworks or application tools for developing mobile content. Float Mobile Learning Primer. Game of Phones (from Hybrid Learning and Czarina Games ). Conferences Learning Mobile ibook mlearncon mlearning mobileMy presentation at mLearnCon was on the Tools stage, run by Neil Lasher. could have covered all the rapid dev tools that claim to output for mobile. Think application or performance support instead of course. Think outside the box a bit. App-Press. PhoneGap. MORE >>

e-Learning designers face many of the same challenges as designers of classroom training – they’re aspiring to a learning experience which is relevant, motivates, incentivises and inspires learners to change or improve certain behaviours or attitudes. But let me now take you behind the scenes, into the world of us e-learning developers. One of the core challenges that we face lies in creating e-learning that is effective, engaging and accessible for all learners, including those who aren’t using a mouse and instead are using assistive technologies. MORE >>