It has been 10 years, give or take, since the last major SCORM update was introduced to the learning community. SCORM 2004 was a great evolution from 2.1, but can the same be said about the upcoming Tin Can API ? Unfortunately, I think not. Let me first make something crystal clear:  I want the new SCORM Tin Can API to flourish. think the concept behind it is a very good direction for SCORM and the learning field overall. Will there be unforseen difficulties? Absolutely. But in the end, I think it will ultimately be a step in the right direction. Change can be good, but it is difficult. Tweet. MORE >>

TODAY”S TOUR STOP: April 20: Judy Unrein OneHundred Forty Words and Rich Mesch Performance Punctuated. The tour is going well and has garnered some controversy as Kathy Sierra has weighed on as a self-proclaimed gamification curmudgeon and is appropriately warning folks about the downside of gamification–which certianly exists. It’s lead to some great discussions about motivation and I hope you join in! The book is available at the ASTD Book Store. Or check it out on Amazon. You are welcome to join the tour, no…you are urged and encouraged to join the tour. MORE >>

Markets are conversations ~ Cluetrain Manifesto. … and so are organizations. The network design principles successful organizations follow are: ( 1 ) shortening the distance between two randomly picked files/nodes/people. 2 ) getting more people who you personally know to know each other. Esko Kilpi. Conversations. How do we have these at work? mean real conversations, about work that matters. We narrate our work. This was very natural when people worked together. Fishermen repairing their nets on the wharf at the foot of Union Street in San Francisco – Source: Wikimedia. Tweet. MORE >>

Social media in organisations has been a difficult topic and sometimes bothers me. When I am invited to do introductory sessions in organisations, I feel like I'm converting people to use MORE social media, whereas I don't believe it is a matter of using as many social media as possible. do believe however in finding an optimal use of social media to support individual and collective learning and innovation. Reflection is needed in order to learn from the past. Most of the time a smarter use of media may help. lot of times, social media don't solve the underlying learning disabilities. MORE >>

In Part 1 of this blog series, I shared my experience about the content acquisition and analysis phase for creating a scenario-based course. In Part 2, I shared how I created a storyline and identified the critical steps in it and further started storyboarding and shared the introduction screen with you. When storyboarding for this [.]. eLearning Suite eLearning this week Extending Captivate How do I. Rapid Authoring Rapid eLearning Training and Tutorials "Elearning authoring tools" Adobe Captivate 5.5 Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 MORE >>