by Tess Robinson. Director, L earningAge Solutions). So goal-based learning sounds great but what can you use it for? And how can technology augment this way of learning? Performance support. Learning shouldn’t stop when a learner leaves the classroom. goal-based approach can ensure that the learning continues into the workplace, making the most of the investment that the organisation has made and ensuring that learners are fully supported in attempting to improve their performance at work. Imagine you’ve just sat through a whole day’s workshop on project management. Performance review. MORE >>

I’ve got an odd relationship with the notion of social learning. Whilst I’m often at pains to remind people that social learning is nothing new, I’m acutely aware that the term is today a much broader one than it has been in years gone by. Influenced by a score of theorists dating back centuries, the idea that our individual learning is influenced by both our circumstances and by other people seems to be a naturally easy assumption to make. But ’social’ is something of a pariah in the corporate learning world, at least increasingly so it would seem. MORE >>

1.       Never sacrifice legibility for creativity. Unless you are creating fine art, the goal of your text is to be read. Don’t let your font, size, color, and contrast choices get in the way of that. 2.       Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Popular graphics, word processing, and e-learning software applications give you all sorts of options for fill effects, shadows, reflections, shapes, and angles. You don’t have to use them all. 3.       Make sure your font matches your message. Font choices send non-verbal messages. Make sure that message is the one you want. MORE >>

Write astounding multiple-choice questions. See examples here. Post from: The eLearning Coach Writing Multiple Choice Questions For Higher Order Thinking. eLearning Design MORE >>

I really enjoy following the learning frontier, reading about and analyzing the latest developments in learning tools and methodologies.  My last two blog posts were reactions to augmented reality , a concept that was thought up decades ago, coined in the 90s, and only starting to crawl into everyday life.  Augmented reality has a potential to revolutionize learning because of its ability to overlay helpful information not normally seen by the naked eye onto the objects we view.  This week, however, I came across something a bit more current called Learnist (created by Grockit ).  MORE >>