We had a great time at DevLearn 2012 in Las Vegas. Sharon Boller introducing Knowledge Guru at DevLearn. Here are a few areas of confusion we heard at DevLearn… and our attempts to clear the air. In Sharon Boller’s DevLearn Morning Buzz on learning game design, a participant commented that the cartoonish, animated feel of many games would not be suitable to her learners. Consider these thoughts from John Barnes , who tweeted at us during DevLearn: John is right: we do start learning the mechanics of a game the more we play. Gamification. MORE >>

For us DevLearn is a huge success and we will be back next year at the expo.Yesterday was the last day of the expo so I will have some time to attend sessions today. devlearn Adaptive learning ANewSpring e-Learning EasyGenerator eLearning guildI started with a morning buzz session with Jay Cross. He told us how he deals with the information overload that is flooding all of us. The message is simple. You go from push to pull, with RSS feeds you pull information in instead for searching it on the web. This means that people are replacing search engines. MORE >>

OK – so I can’t live blog my own session, but I can share my slides: presented Thursday, Nov 3 2011 at DevLearn in Las Vegas. devlearn instructional designIt was a great session – lots of conversation with the group which you won’t see on the slides, a few side bars and tangents, and some free t-shirts at the end! Thanks to everyone who joined in. And for the record -- I designed my slides to match the t-shirt I was wearing ;). Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling. View more presentations from cammybean. MORE >>

mobile #DevLearn mobile strategy mobile learning Clark Quinn"what partner's do we need?" Fundamental (the people you need, IT, stakeholders) (security). Strategic (the people that are there to help because they make sense, vendors, politics). For me: Those that create buyin within an organization. Security personal. Senior team. Policy makers. Hr - for equity. Legal team. Diversity and inclusivity. Vendors. End users (participatory designers). Support teams (anticipating problems that you can't). Corporate communication. Platforms you support. Viruses. Support provided. Ettiquette. MORE >>

My live blogged notes from Tom Crawford, @vizchef, @viznetwork session at DevLearn November 3, 2011 in Las Vegas. mobile devlearnForgive the typos and omissions. And also forgive the delay – forgot to publish these right after the session on Thursday! The mobile market: Smart phones are growing; but not-smart-phones are still significant part of the market. So you could still do SMS and text and do good stuff with mobile learning. Today we’ll talk about smart phones. Androids are growing. PC/laptop use is down 20%; mobile is 30% up. it knows things you didn’t tell it. MORE >>