DevLearn promises to be a great conference this year again.There is a very promising line-up of keynote speakers and other presenters. The eLearning guild has a reputation for inviting surprising key-note speakers and it looks like they have done it again. I’m curious if they are able to make the connection from their background to eLearning. presentation about designing courses instead of developing them. do believe that curation is one of the roles an eLearning developer should perform in order to stay relevant. devlearn EasyGenerator eLearnin MORE >>

How has video played a part in your eLearning? video ls2012 devlearn mlearncon instructional design elearning development elearning corporate eLearningIf you haven't been following my previous posts you may want to review quickly before diving into this one. At the very least be sure to have watched the videos from the first link. After all, there is a CONTEXT around each that is quite unique. That's cool. 1937 had black and white film on reels of "tape" and it was a physical, analog, medium. The learners needed to be gathered into a room. Right? MORE >>

On August 27th I begin the next chapter of my eLearning career. am leaving the Training and Development industry's most important professional association, The eLearning Guild , to be part of a startup in the data center industry. But before I go into more about the new gig I want to use this blog post as opportunity to reflect on my time with The eLearning Guild, and why DevLearn 2012 is going to be AWESOME! And in 2006 I was speaking at another eLearning Guild event, between sessions, when I took the call that finalized my leaving Intel. TEACH. MORE >>

If he was an eLearning developer instead of a rockstar icon this could very well be what he's been looking for.what we've all been waiting for. And for eLearning that's a BIG deal. I'll wait a few days and learn more from the developers I know running tests. Of course if you want to talk, and learn more about Adobe's Edge, there is no better place than DevLearn this November. It's going to be an exciting year for developers! devlearn elearning corporate eLearningOr not. totally did not see that coming. MORE >>

Brent Schlenker Program Director for DevLearn I wonder how a silly pic like this, on the right, would rank in a memorability algorithm? My favorite quote from the lead researcher, Phillip Isola: "Pleasantness and memorability are not the same" I know, in my experience designing eLearning courses, that making graphics simply looked nice, and pleasant, to the corporate stakeholders was the goal if not a battle you had to fight. Corporate training developers are often asked to PROVE why they chose the graphic design elements they did. Landscapes seemed to be forgettable. MORE >>