Here are my slides from my Gadgets, Games and Google for Learning: How to Leverage the Latest Technologies for Learning and Performance Improvement. Given as part of the Training 3.0 pre-conference workshops. It was a great group with wonderful activity in the chat. Gadgets, Games and Google for Learning. View more presentations from Karl Kapp. Here is an image of the screen shot with all the participants, we have over 200. Lots of great resources provided by participants in the chat, great discussion. Here are some additional resources that might help: Design Instruction like a Game Developer. MORE >>

By Joseph Suarez. You are here.”. Don’t you love when a map tells you that? Knowing exactly where you are can help you decide where to go and what to do next. Lectora’s progress bars are like a “You are here” marker for eLearning courses, providing visual feedback to users about their progress. The three types of Progress Bars in Lectora are Timer, Table of Contents, and Custom. Timer. This progress bar type can serve as a visual queue for time remaining/elapsed. The great thing about Timer progress bars is that events can be triggered once time has fully elapsed using an “On Done” action. MORE >>

Today, I’m going to adopt a contrarian view. We all know social networks promote learning; while the mechanisms aren’t documented or well-understood, that it works isn’t in doubt anymore. But we must ask, are the ‘social media/networking systems’ out there promoting this learning? Or does it happen in spite of these systems? Sure, lots of companies want to replicate ‘Facebook’ behind the firewall; safe from prying eyes, but open enough for employees to freely express themselves. They hope that by just implementing such a system learning will ‘happen’; does it? What’s been your experience? MORE >>

I’m getting ready for some exciting presentations this fall… mLearning DevCon in October and DevLearn in November! mLearning DevCon is a brand-new event focused on (hopefully this is the obvious part) mobile learning development. I’m going to share two presentations there: Bridging the Gaps: Bringing Multimedia to Mobile with HTML5-Friendly Utilities  - A complement to some other speaking and writing I’m doing about HTML5 authoring tools, this session will reveal some of the best-of-breed tools for bring elements of multimedia into markup-based courses. MORE >>

Yesterday we worked on where we could include some interactions in your e-learning course for maximum learning impact. Sticking with interactions, today we’re going to zoom in and focus on the options and feedback in those interactions. When it comes to writing questions and options (whether that’s in a simple multiple choice or in another activity such as a drag-and-drop) I like to remember the Goldilocks rule: they need to be not too hard, not too easy, but just right. It’s all about finding the right balance – so the learner is faced with a challenge, but not an impossible task. MORE >>