Today saw me attend the official launch of Learningworx which also doubled as a workshop centering on how to design online learning content. Here’s a bit of the official blurb. Take a course. Make a course. Change the world. As the UK’s first ‘crowd-sourced content’ learning centre, we want to help you join in and start creating your own learning content to share your knowledge and skills. But when it actually comes to making a course we understand you might not know where to start. You probably haven’t created any kind of online content before. Track 2: Writing Great Content. MORE >>

by Tess Robinson, Director, LearningAge Solutions. Being innovative doesn’t mean that you have to come up with big radical new ideas all the time. Sometimes the very best learning innovations are quite simple and subtle or are just improvements or diversions from existing ideas. Having just won an award for innovation, we’d like to share our 10 top tips for innovative thinking with you…. Look beyond what is in front of you and practice seeing more than what is directly before your eyes. The way you view something at first, is not necessarily the only way of looking at it. Where is the gap? MORE >>

I built my first website in the late ‘90s as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia. It was titled “Matt’s World” with a spinning globe at the top of the page. Needless to say, it was awesome (the animated GIF, not my website). Since then, animated GIFs have come a long way. They were the source of many chuckles during the 2012 presidential campaign. Cat lovers can find a plethora of feline-related animated GIFs around the Internet. And, the 2012 Olympics were a “giant coming-out party for the animated GIF.”. Users don’t need the Flash player. They don’t need a fancy HTML5-ready browser. MORE >>

For easy, step-by-step instructions on incorporating a narrated PowerPoint presentation into your Rapid Intake course, check out  this blog post. You can also view a sample course with a converted PowerPoint.  . eLearning Strategy MORE >>

There are many active contributors to conversations about educational technology, elearning, online learning, whatever learning. Some folks do it while gainfully employed ( Stephen Downes , Alec Couros ), others have made it part of their consultancy work ( Jay Cross , Harold Jarche ), and some ( edsurge ) who are VC funded. There are numerous ways to support these folks in their work, ranging from buying their books, inviting them to present at conferences, and engaging them with consulting work. I’d like to focus on one individual in particular – Audrey Watters. MORE >>