Rapid ePlatform Learning (eLearning & mLearning) development is about efficiency. By my count, with laptops, tablets, and mobile devices, we connect through technology to our lives and businesses at least a dozen ways.  Therefore, when you add elearning and mobile learning to the mix, you are asking or demanding that your learners add more information to what they consume each day. Therefore, we need to make sure it's beneficial, relevant, and timely.  . Timely generally being the most difficult. We know what to teach, but it's getting it out the door fast enough.  eLearning Strategy MORE >>

A friend of mine introduced me to ' Draw Something ' last month and I must admit - I'm addicted. I've always been a doodler but this app really ups the ante by challenging me to illustrate a wide array of concepts - everything from simple words like 'cow' to people like 'Lady Gaga' or 'Madonna' - so they can be guessed by a friend who's also drawing words for you. You earn coins for correct guesses and successful rounds are celebrated. Now, I already fancied myself to be a visual person, but playing Draw Something has really reinforced to me that visual thinking is only one layer of design. MORE >>

At the online Educa in Berlin Willem Manders and Hans de Zwart facilitated a workshop on the future of learning organizations. They both work For Shell. Shell uses scenarios to investigate the future to assess its current strategy. We applied this method to investigate the future of learning and learning organizations. We started out by brainstorming about general trends, from the outcome we choose two. Then we determined two extremes per trend, with this result: How work is done? Relationship driven vs data driven. How work is organized? In-crowd. Big data. Quantified self. MORE >>

I’ve been reflecting on the new learning model I proposed earlier , and want to share some elaborations with you. In this case, I want to elaborate on the notion of activities, and some associated properties. First, I think it’s important to recognize that gradually, learners will take more and more ownership of choosing activities. Another important property of these activities is that they embed, possibly at multiple levels. Each of those would be activities with deliverables or products, and evaluation or reflection. There are lots of ways in which activities could be related. MORE >>

Tweet From my sunny office in San Diego, I checked into the happenings at CLO’s spring conference in Miami. did this by tracking the twitter stream, #closym. One tweet grabbed my attention. researcher reported that the keyword, webinar, was searched more often than the keyword, elearning. Think about that. People are seeking information about webinars more often than they are drawn to elearning. few years ago, Colleen Cunningham, Antonia Chan and I examined the webinar phenomenon. The  article , published in CLO magazine, had this snarky title: What Stinks about Webinars. It Do it. MORE >>