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Revolutionizing Employee Training: McDonald’s POS Training Simulator

Epilogue Systems

Gone are the days of monotonous lectures and shadowing seasoned cashiers. But its impact goes beyond just button-mashing. So, take a page out of their playbook, ditch the dry textbooks and fire up the training simulator. It took careful planning, development, and a willingness to break the mold.

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Out of the window

Learning with e's

Here's a language lesson: Máš vokno (pronounced mash vokno ) is a colloquialism in Bohemia. I sometimes experience something similar when I'm sat in a boring lecture. I sometimes experience something similar when I'm sat in a boring lecture. But with instruction and lectures it's often a case of máš vokno.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Instead of coding, programmers built apps by mashing up shared packages of code. To tell her friends about breaking up with her boyfriend, she references a song from Life of Brian, Always look on the bright side of life. Professors give horrible lectures on esoteric subjects. How much of my code can be recycled?

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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

Imagine a great lecture with no tests, papers or deadlines. Check out UC Berkeley Webcasts , which has a mix of video and audio lectures and MIT’s Open Courseware , which consists of PDF lecture notes and some multimedia presentations. OpenLearn has a Learning Space with lecture notes and discussion forums.

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Informal Learning at Nick.com

Kapp Notes

Faces (or What are we Up Against) over on Tony Karrer's eLearning Technology blog. Conducting traditional classroom lectures for these gamers is not going to cut it and neither is our page-of-text, page-of-text, page-of-text, multiple-choice question, page-of-text e-learning module format. We better stop bad mouthing Web 2.0

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Corporate Advisory Council Starts Today

Kapp Notes

The RFP has opportunities for e-learning, hands-on instructor-led elements, social media and follow up training. 3:15-3:45: The Phoenix Group presentation with Cliff Sobel and Rhonda Dorsett The Phoenix Group creates a mash up of training, marketing, education and user experiences.

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e-Learning Solutions – All in One Option For EduPreneurs

Academy of Mine

Or let’s say you’re running a WordPress Chat room (for your live lectures). We create a “mash up” of the best eLearning solutions for our members to use. Or Maybe you’re using WordPress as your LMS (as many of you are), but what if your LMS isn’t compatible with your eCommerce software? That’s where Academy of Mine comes in.