Sadly, my beloved Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup Final to those pesky but perseverant Boston Bruins in what is being denoted as the strangest Stanley Cup Final ever. was at the game, and I tip my hat to the Bruins. could go on to outline the athletic merits of the Bruins versus the Canucks, but that would not be consistent with my usual writing in this space. And yes, the fact I’m writing this post is to make nice on a ‘Twitter Bet’ I made with my friend @eric_andersen , of IBM, and an ardent Bruins fan himself. The bet? Why did Boston win? And congratulations to the Boston Bruins. MORE >>

Or to be more accurate. “ What’s in a job title “? You might say (and I wouldn’t neccesarily disagree with you). “ not a lot, it’s what the individual ‘ does ‘ within that role that’s important ” You might come back to me and say (and again, I may not disagree with you). Does anybody, anywhere be it in the vendor, client or DIY community really Design Instruction anymore? Really ? So why in the eLearning community do we use the term Instructional Designer? Now that’s not a rhetorical questions. Image source. Share/Bookmark. MORE >>

In my last post, we looked at the next generation content authoring. In this post, I include an interactivity that will help you explore the five types of interactive elements for next generation learning. Use your mouse pointer to explore any of the five panels here, and click on the little round button at the bottom right of each panel to know more. Click "Restart" button on bottom right to go back to the panel. Enjoy MORE >>

I designed this sim for the World Anti-Doping Agency (developed with Web Courseworks ) to allow young athletes to experience choices around doping. Take a look at this video about it: The process used to create this sim, and countless others, is outlined in Designing Sims the Clark Aldrich Way , a draft of an upcoming (targeted at professionals) book, and my upcoming conference Serious Play MORE >>

I had the pleasure to attend a presentation by Julie Ferguson. Julie is doing research for the university of Amsterdam (VU) into (micro-)blogging as part of her PdD research about knowledge and power in the development sector. The research has not yet been published. This research had the goal to investigate how knowledge related to a shared organising vision (in this case (ICT4D, about ICT for development). It analyzes the behaviour and perception of the bloggers. She interviewed 7 professional ICT4D bloggers (used interviews to identify those) and analysed their blogs. MORE >>