As any student knows, a literature review is the starting point for almost any article or essay. When at the level of writing a thesis or dissertation, a review of literature is critical. However, I have issues with reviews. few weeks ago, while digging through a whack of literature on sensemaking, the repetitiveness or the process started to irritate me. Almost every paper started with a literature review and then moved into the author’s ideas/research. was reading 7000 words when I really only needed the 2000 or 3000 that provided new information. Who cares if someone has had it before? MORE >>

How Much Narration in eLearning? Our Lessons Learned by Don Bair & Mike Dickinson : Learning Solutions Magazine. Two IDs look at the use of audio narration–how much, quality of speakers, quality of equipment. Includes guidelines based on their survey of employees. wish they had some more info about the survey they conducted though (i.e., how many responses they received, how many total employees at the company, etc.). tags: e-learning audio research casestudies. We wanted to know the preferences of our employees so we conducted a survey. a well-known manager, process owner, or SME). MORE >>

Tweet Higher value, paid work is increasingly complex and requires greater creativity. This is how the world works today. Competition is global. Everything else is getting  automated & outsourced it seems. Even lawyers are not immune to this. In a workplace requiring creative solutions to complex problems, learning and working must be integrated. We need to actually implement the notion of the often-quoted term “continuous learning&# Today, learning really is the work. This is what separates high value work from the stuff getting automated and outsourced. Fix the workplace. MORE >>

If you've never seen lions in the wild, it's quite something to be less than six feet away from one. If you have seen lions in the wild, then to see them crouch, stalk and get into the hunt is like watching poetry in motion. The big cat trail made it's second stop at Gir. Sowmya, Pratima, Pradeep and Santosh had headed back to Bangalore. That left Sahana and me to make the long journey to Junagadh, so we could connect to the last home of the Asiatic Lions (Panthera Leo Persica). The next morning we were on safari. Gir has a clearly demarcated tourism zone that has 8 separate routes. MORE >>

Well, I guess it depends upon how you want to answer the question. Amount of work or elapsed time? Bryan Chapman recently updated his survey on how long it takes to create learning, including e-learning. The average amount of work for an e-learning course with average interactivity is 184 hours for every finished hour of content. But what does that mean for elapsed time?  Does that mean one person can finish the course in 4.6 weeks? Or can three people finish a course in 1.5 weeks?  Probably not. We’ve also seen a 15-minute course take a year and a half! Factor #1: Priority. Stay on schedule. MORE >>