A lot of wasted effort and money. But what if an enterprising equality company was to simply give away the training in a packaged, generic course, or as a set of 'rapidready' ppt slides***. Perhaps this could work fine for organisations that like that sort of thing perhaps this would mean a lot of business for the company to tart it up and brand the content Perhaps simply seeing the name on this would generate business later on I see so much of the commercial elearning community discussing Free as it applies to us using other people's free tools, but isn't it about time that Free came in here too and started to disrupt things for us?

34;  On a similar topic, Ellen Wagner wrote two good postings this past month: "On eLearning, ID, and Learning Technologies" and "Why It Matters What They Call Us." New Roles in Learning and Development And speaking of job roles in our industry, Jay Cross continued sharing his provocative thoughts in his June column in Chief Learning Officer magazine: "More Human Than Human....

Do they have an answer? Do they know someone else who does? Have they met similar problems before? HTML 5 and eLearning Development - The Upside Learning Solutions Blog Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it's a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX. It makes HTML more powerful by adding new elements like video and audio. A list of new elements in HTML 5 can be found here at IBM's site and the draft specification is available here at W3C's site.