So how are we using our SmartPhones?……and are they being used for e learning? New challenges for the learning designer.
The rapidly emerging challenge to the learning designer is how to embed all the learning devices…PC/Laptop, Smartphone and Tablet to meet the learners usage patterns and suitability’s of these devices to the learners needs and organisations requirements. This is the...
The Hierarchy of learning according to Disney, and the importance of the dream!
This is posting is taken from an earlier review we wrote of Fred Lee’s interesting book “If Disney ran Your Hospital”. We felt it prescient to highlight the interesting attitude Disney has developed toward learning and the motivation to learn – and we offer this as a...
FLATMAGS the new world of learning
The FLATMAGS: that’s Facebook, Linked-in, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon (and) Google, who are changing the way the world learns. Does this term work for you….it does for us as a shorthand for the companies that are in some way coming to dominate how and where we...
So…You want to set up your own e-learning business.
With a difficult economic background and many individuals looking at working for themselves by setting up their own businesses, is it wise to consider setting up an e-learning business? With students leaving university finding it difficult to get work, but full of...
How big a problem is piracy and copying to e-learning?
How significant is the danger of piracy and illegal copying of e-learning software? I had a very interesting conversation with a company based in Russia the other day that has developed protection solutions to combat this problem. They provided me with statistics of...
Blackboard buys into Moodle, just as the UK Government lists a Moodle provider on its IMLS Framework.
Well what is going on in the world of LMS and VLEs? Well something quite amazing! We read on Ray Henderson’s blog that Blackboard have to use his words “embraced open source” by acquiring Moodlerooms Inc. in North America, and NetSpot Pty. Ltd., a leader in Moodle...
Is e-learning becoming more popular in the UK?
The e-learning market has long been predicted to grow, indeed it is over a decade since Andy Grove of Intel fame predicted that e-learning will be the next big thing….and somehow the promise, in the eyes of many, has never quite materialised. Yet quietly and perhaps...
Why Moodle is ahead of the game in the world of open source LMS/VLEs
The leading open source LMS Moodle with its huge user base and profile (at least in the world of e-learning) does have a number of peers. It would be unfair to call them rivals, and of course we would advise you to consider all options if you are selecting an LMS /...
Harnessing Technology or Disrupting Class two sides of the same coin?
Harnessing Technology or Disrupting Class two sides of the same coin? The many excellent BECTA reports addressing school and college use of e-learning and learning technologies offered a vision of an insightful vision of the future, the 2008 report “Analysis of...
Learning Technologies 2012 – review
Another busy, well attended show with lots of delegates provided with a wide range of exhibitors all combining to offer a real buzz. The 2012 Learning Technologies show was interesting for a variety of reasons, and one particularly interesting reason was that this...
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