Other people around the world pray for what we take for granted. From the article: “As the recent Taliban assassination attempt on Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani champion of girls’ education, shows: The Taliban are most scared of books, not bombs. Establishing an educational infrastructure in Afghanistan is the most cost effective long-term strategy for grassroots [.]. Learning MORE >>

Imagine you walk into a classroom to take a course and find the desks scattered all over the place, student manuals strewn all over the room, the instructor making no effort to facilitate the course effectively, the LCD projector pointing at the wall not the whiteboard, your fellow students wandering in and out sporadically throughout the period, and the course beginning randomly in chapter 5 for no apparent reason. How well do you think this experience is going to go MORE >>

A Latitude Learning LMS client has achieved recognition for training excellence MORE >>

Judy and I talk to Megan Bowe about Tin Can (Experience API), Learning Record Stores (LRS) and learning design. Even with the horrible Skype issues, this was a good show. “ Because I’m a Robot Unicorn ” Enjoy! Learning Podcast MORE >>

The recent U.S. election reminded us on a daily basis of all the serious problems we face as a nation. Political campaigns made the solutions sound simple, as if one person or one policy could put people back to work, improve our educational system, deliver better health care, clean up the environment, or prevent war. It’s just not that simple. As Baldoni writes in his Forbes blog post , “Post-Election: Now What?”: Now is the time to put the interests of the whole society first. That will require a commitment – indeed a partnership – of community, business, nonprofit and yes government. MORE >>