Donald Clark is writing 50 post on 50 learning theorist in 5o days. Very interesting read. It goes from Socrates to Marx, from Jesus and Mohammed to Illich and Pavlov and from Cross to Shank. Food for thought. His reason for doing this (in his own words): ‘Most physicists know of Newton, Einstein and Hawking. Most artists know of Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Picasso. Most musicians know of Beethoven, Mozart and the Beatles. Businessmen know of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and Bill Gates. Even criminals would know of Guy Fawkes, Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler. MORE >>

"You can't design a course with them, and you don't have good content without them." In too many organizations, this statement sums up the relationship with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). In order to create good courses, Instructional System Designers (ISDs) need good information and experience. As we know, tension often arises between the ISD and SME.  In this series of articles, let's take a look at why these tensions exists, possible solutions, and methods of gathering SME information. eLearning Strategy MORE >>

I read fiction, typically “award-winning” novels (am a fiction snob truth be told) and am often thinking about how to incorporate some techniques into my e-learning design. . Novels (Photo credit: sbluerock). Character development – when reading a novel, I don’t have to love the character, but I do have to care what happens to them. wonder how I might learn from this in e-learning? Developing a persona is one way, but I’m curious about how others develop characters for e-learning… Story structure – I happen to like novels that are a little different. MORE >>

Mayra Aixa Avilar  (who I hope to meet someday, maybe at mLearnCon ?)pointed pointed to this post saying “mLearning is starting to diverge from eLearning not only in specific meaning, but in approach and design as well”, and I want to politely disagree. Depends, of course, on what you mean by elearning, to start with. The clear implication is that elearning is about courses on the desktop. As I’ve discussed before, when I’m talking about ‘ big L ‘ learning, I’m covering research, performance, innovation, creativity as well as more typical execution. MORE >>

The eLearning Guild always brings together eLearning people from a variety of backgrounds. This makes the Guild an interesting organization to stay updated on all things related to eLearning. Chris Benz from the eLearning Guild just released a free online book that comprizes 58 tips on eLearning. The free eBook covers tips running from research, design, over development and management. You can download it her e (before the download, you do need to give some information). It is an easy read and. These webinars are planned on 17 and 18 May 2012. MORE >>