Are your courses stinky? Do you have boring PowerPoints? Try some “eLearning Deodorant&# to stop the stink! It doesn’t need to take a lot of time and money to create better courses. It just takes a bit of inspiration…not perspiration. Here are some quick and easy tips to make your content pages more interesting. You can also see them in action at the end of this post. Visually “tie&# your main concept to separate components. Each one can appear individually or all at once. Take your main topics and/or key points and put them in BIG TEXT. Why create boring lists? MORE >>

by AJ George. Another year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has come and gone. What did this year's CES bring to the table for the eLearning industry? Tablets Many have coined 2011 "the year of the tablet" and I believe it. The iPad has been well received among educational institutions. think this trend in tablet computing will continue, moving beyond fad and into what could potentially make tablets an essential educational tool, and perhaps even a major money-saver for college students who would otherwise dump a large amount of money into hard-copy textbooks. MORE >>

Employees learn best when they have guidance, support, and performance feedback from someone they trust and respect in the organization. Ideally, this is a boss, supervisor, coach, or mentor who knows why that learning is important and how it aligns with strategic business goals. Managers, at all organizational levels, should have regular learning-focused conversations with the people who report to them. In these conversations, described in our book, The 5As Framework , managers should ask: What do you need to learn in order to help this organization achieve its business goals? MORE >>

In the past two weeks we started working on the newest version of easygenerator. We do software development through an agile approach. knew a bit about agile software development, but  I was never really a part of the process. don’t want to elaborate about software development methodologies, but for those of you who don’t know anything about it I will try to explain in a few words (as I see it as a non-specialist). Software was often developed through a waterfall model. You write the requirements, design it, build it, test it, and deliver it. Image from wikipedia. Easy as that. MORE >>

I joined the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK11) MOOC a tad late. It is a 12 week course that started on January 17 and will continue till April 11. am really excited to see what it holds. This is my introductory post. am a bit worried that I am lagging behind in my reading but not too worried since many of the articles and posts that are linked are stuff I have already read. am eager to go through this journey as a part of a group of people who are passionate and keen about the same things that I am. Week 1 : Connectivism Week 2 : Patterns Week 3 : Knowledge Week 4 : Unique? MORE >>