NOTE (October, 2012): I first posted this piece in 2004. At the time I was looking at educational theories and methods that had been developed in the early 1970′s that rather mysteriously became the de facto standard for developing educational programs. saw two major problems. The first is obvious. The way we learned back [.]. Education Future of education instructional design Learning Social Learning MORE >>

Here are some thoughts on what needs to be done to develop an instructional game that meets the objective of actually teaching something to the player. To ensure that the goals of a serious game are met, the first priority is to design the game to focus on those learning or social objectives from the beginning and not as an afterthought. One can’t bolt game elements onto traditional learning or social education and expect that to be an effective, interesting or even instructional game. The first step to achieving the goal is to co-design “serious” elements along with gameplay elements. Games MORE >>

I’m happy to share that my research report with the eLearning Guild is now live and available to anyone with a paid Guild membership:  HTML5 and eLearning: What Managers and Practitioners Must Know. This is the culmination of a couple of years of writing and talking about HTML5 and elearning, but I know that it will open up new questions, as well. Feel free to join the conversation by commenting below or on the eLearning Guild LinkedIn community. I’ve also received a question or two by email that I’m planning to post on this blog with answers as they come in. MORE >>

Play, Learn, Track, Remember – only with the Knowledge Guru™. Spaced learning and repetition are the keys to how we learn. Here at BLP, we are using these techniques in our Knowledge Guru game engine to enable rapid retention of facts and information. While spaced learning and repetition are just starting to show up in the corporate learning world, the ideas are anything but new. What is spaced learning and repetition? Spaced learning is a training technique that involves three 15-20 minute training or learning sessions with two 10-minute breaks between the sessions. MORE >>

“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer Here are the facts: The vast majority of learning programs still rely on event-driven formal learning models. Formal and informal together are only a small [.]. Learning MORE >>