It’s the office Christmas party and everyone’s taking their seats at the table. Who would you rather sit next to, the rather dull colleague in the lovely dress or the one with the great stories who you really get on with? An e-learning course’s ‘look’ is important… but its ‘personality’ is paramount. Some e-learning blogs include tips such as ‘use handwritten style fonts to make your e-learning engaging’ – but surely that’s like saying someone is interesting and likeable because they have a nice haircut? Probably not. MORE >>

Question from a client: Our field teams have been given iPads. iPads don’t play Flash. What do we do about our existing flash-based e-learning? I’m going to begin by professing I am not an expert on HTML5, but here’s what I’ve gleaned, and I’d love it if anyone can add to this post. When assessing [.]. Authoring tools Learning Management Systems Strategy MORE >>

When grappling with the concept of learning I often talk about the importance of reflection. However, another key concept is asynchronicity (I'm not entirely sure that's a word). I've reflected on this previously within Asynchronous = Time and Space Learning. In that post I talked about how learning is more likely to occur when given time and space. wanted to tease this out a bit more in relation to learning itself. Learning is hard, really hard. It's a skill just to recognise when it's happening and cultivate it effectively. Often, the pain associated with it is viewed negatively. MORE >>

Keynote Paul Kim, Stanford University. Good talk, but a bit technology utopian. He focuses on success stories from his projects with children around the world while using mobile devices. He speaks with such enthusiasm, that he sounds like a promotional movie for mobile learning created at Stanford. Main idea: pedagogical paradigm shift, learning by students. a live blogpost, so excuse me for mistyping words etcetera). In the next 15 years, we will no longer have mobile phones, innovations evolve towards embedded technologies. If there is a competitive benefit, it is always temporarily. MORE >>

Some fantastic progress has been made recently in realising the concept of massively scalable education. You've probably already heard plenty about the Khan Academy , which has contributed to the maths education of millions, as well as the free online courses being run by faculty at Stanford University. An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence , led by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun, attracted some 160,000 enquiries, of which 25,000 or more have made it through to its conclusion. Interested as I am in all this, my work is not in education, it is in training. There is, of course, an overlap. MORE >>