How Can You Use Game Based Learning?

A guest blog piece from Scott Hewitt of Real Projects, a true exponent of Game Based learning. Are you using Game Based Learning in your elearning projects? Have you thought about how you could use it in your organisation? Are you an instructional designer who is looking for something new for your next course design?…

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New term for e-learning?

With the term edtech growing in usage and currency to describe much of the education technology and the new innovations hitting the learning and education market, (MOOCs and more), and with mobile learning or Mlearning well understood – (having seen off “handheld learning”) we must wonder if there is a new set of terms coming…

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Do Badges plus Compelling Content spell the end for Instructional design?

How do we get people to take training? is a question that is asked all too frequently, and the debate appears to be moving on from the importance of instructional design to deliver engaging effective e-learning ….will we need excellent instructional design to attract learners in the future? when we are seeing the development of…

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Learning Technologies 2013

A review and our 5 picks of the show……. Busy busy busy was the common consensus of those exhibiting in the Learning Technologies area, a slightly less busy area in our view was the Learning and Skills area, as it was in its new located area adjacent to LTs. I missed the central arrival point…

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Next Learning Unwrapped – Nick van Dam

I have always been a fan of Nick van Dams e-learning Fieldbook, and often refer enquirers to answer the questions posed by Nick to understand what e-learning works best for.

I have now completed Nick’s 2011 book, Next Learning Unwrapped, that comes with an introduction from the great Elliot Masie, who usually signs off with the catch phrase “Yours in Learning”, but leaves us with “Carpe diem” – Seize the Day, but missing off the rest of Horace’s phrase which goes on to say “putting as little trust as possible in the future!”

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