Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Industry gurus have long maintained that authoring tools can be either powerful or easy to use. They say: choose one. I say: I want both. Is that possible? Well yes, if the tool designers pay attention to flexibility. Consider interactivity templates. The very idea of a template connotes a cookie-cutter approach. Easy to learn, easy to use.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

When Elon Musk decided to give away Tesla’s patents , he did precisely this – he diffused proprietary knowledge into the broader industry so that as the ecosystem grows, Tesla in turn gets further ahead. We could evolve standards for learning technology together, making it easier for systems to interoperate and exchange data.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Five years is a long time in the software industry. In the game of cricket, they say a player's form is temporary, but the class is timeless. Likewise, when a product stands the test of time, it deepens your belief in the innovation and quality underlying it.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 1, 2010

I am looking forward to meeting several users of Harbinger Knowledge Products as well as partners and industry peers at the Olympia 2 London venue. A synopsis of the talk is available online. It's a relief to know that there is a wired 1Mb internet connection in each seminar theatre.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The language must be such that it has a low barrier for learning, that it facilitates learning by providing embedded learning objects (like the Turtle in Logo), and that it does not snare the user in a complex process of edit-compile-run cycle of industry-standard languages. It offers the full power of programming (i.e.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

The goal of the program was to expose participants to selected ideas in innovation, strategy, leadership and vision: all of them set in the context of high tech industry. The program, dubbed BaseCamp 2010, addressed 40 participants drawn from the senior and mid-level ranks of the company.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 1, 2014

How can the industry encourage platform vendors to support a common structure? We would love to hear from our readers in the e-learning industry if they are familiar with any work in this direction. Currently, multiple dimensions of crowdsourcing are different stand alone systems; we need better interoperability.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JUNE 16, 2007

What we DON'T need in the industry, Bryan argued at a recent webinar, is a faster way to create page-turning courseware! Bryan Chapman is Chief Learning Strategist at Chapman Alliance. Formerly he was the Director of Research and Strategy for independent research and consulting firm Brandon Hall Research.

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