Be Less Helpful Over the weekend, I watched this video of a great presentation by Dan Myer on how to Be Less Helpful to students. Use same lengthy set of answers for multiple scenarios – this helps turns off learners’ “guessing” behaviors What do you say? “I can’t reverse that charge myself, ma’am, but Computers are dumb, which can make your e-Learning dumb. What can you do about it?

In any case, I need help figuring out the best way to explain the trends going on in eLearning. Maybe the answer to Question 1 would help. But, it seems like it heads you towards thinking about learning occurring through peer interaction and helps you move towards eLearning 2.0. Food critic because we don't even create I want to try an experiment. I

In today’s post, I’ll share with your some of the free tools that I use regularly to help me be more productive. Color Schemer helps you create color schemes. Here’s a link to some tutorials to help you get started. They help me be more productive when I build my rapid I get a lot of questions from blog readers who are on a limited budget. They want to know about free tools that they can use to build their elearning courses.

Characters have personalities that represent brands, create predictability and help to build relationships. Characters can make interfaces easier to use because they make it more obvious where to find help, and more like getting help from someone down the hall than from a manual or help file. This post summarizes a Stanford University study that was published in 2002. Like a lot of academic papers, it's well, pretty academic reading.

I received an inquiry about the need for a low cost LMS solution and I've not had time to help this person with answers. So, help on effective all-in low cost LMS solutions would be good. I'm hoping folks can chime in with suggestions and resources. I'll try to aggregate them together. Situation description: I have

Headphones help isolate the audio and you’ll be able to hear any problems with the narration better than if you listen with speakers. This helps me focus on capturing the best narration possible without being distracted trying to time the animations. These tips will help you get started recording audio narration like a pro. You don’t need to be a professional audio engineer to record narration. However, you do want to pay attention to what you’re doing and do the best job possible.

Could you help me out and go play around with this mind map here? I am working on a presentation in a few weeks about eLearning authoring tools. A high level overview for learning and development types who don't actually use the tools, but want to know what's out there, when you might use it, and some of the pros and cons. Now, I'm not much of a tool user myself.

I was just asked a question and was a bit at a loss for a response. This organization predominantly has Macs and would like to use something like Articulate or Captivate to: "convert our existing Powerpoint trainings, include quizes, track responding, track time spent enaged, insert Quicktime movies and deploy via the web." For so long, Adobe has had products on both Mac and PC, I assumed that Captivate had a Mac version - but I didn't find one.

In the words of a great band, The Beatles, "Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody, Help, you know I need someone, help!" Yes, Yes, I need your help! More and more people are screencasting. We're looking to gather and compile a list of the best screencasting tips to share with people that are new to screencasting or looking to take their screencasts to a new level. If

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