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The BIG Debate: Can Rapid eLearning Ever Be Truly Engaging?
There are now a number of ‘rapid’ elearning authoring tools that enable ‘anyone’ to author elearning content. And yes, this is true. But only in the same way that word processing software enables...
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Is the Future of Communications Social?
I increasingly view email in the same way I do physical post – quaint, idiosyncratic and evocative of a bygone era. Email just seems so clunky nowadays and so outdated. The level of spam email we all...
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Ongoing Deep Recon into the World of Transmedia
Don’t know what transmedia is? Check out my previous blog posting here. It certainly seems to be transmedia conference season at the moment. After my trip to Geneva I was tempted by the Power to the...
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Forget Me Not – How to Ensure Learners Remember
It seems ironic that the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus has been forgotten for such a long period of time. However, changes do seem to be afoot as I’ve come across two applications recently that build upon...
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Brain’s Rule! – How Understanding the Brain Can Improve Your Learning Content
Increasingly I find myself turning away from learning theories and looking to brain science to help me design engaging and effective learning content. Many of the established learning theories were...
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Breaking Down Barriers Between Learning and Doing
As humans we understand that we learn skills best by doing, by thinking about what went well and how we could improve, and by trying again, and again, and again. We can take short-cuts to improving our...
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A recipe for learning new skills
After a 20-year break I’m getting back into skiing. I’ve just returned from a four-day ski trip to the French Alps. It was awesome. Returning to a soggy grey UK, I’ve been thinking a lot about the trip...
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Together We’re Smarter: Tips for Using Digital Learning to Make the Most of...
Whenever I speak at a conference I take the same approach – I look for ways to get people talking to one-another and contributing to the session. I figure; we’ve got a room full of smart, highly...
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How to Build Agility into your Learning Design
Anyone who has attempted some form of learning design project will know that the goalposts have an annoying habit of moving. The objective that you set out initially to meet might evolve or even change...
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The Art of Simple Design
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” – Mark Twain The same is true of design, and for the purposes of this article I’m going to focus on the design of learning...
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