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Learning Technologies
Mobile Learning in 2021 – The Complete Guide to mLearning
If you want to deliver online education or training in a manner that’s easy and convenient for your learners to access on the go, then good mobile learning design is essential. Here’s our complete guide to mlearning in 2021, including the latest content design and strategy best practices.
Review of School Jotter
Our review of SchoolJotter from Webanywhere - a great school website builder with useful e-learning and communication features. School Jotter is an innovative tool from Webanywhere which enables schools to create personal, functional, user-friendly websites and much...
What does the UK Governments new Industrial Strategy for education mean for the e-learning and the edtech sector.
The 29th July 2013 saw the launch of the UK’s Industrial Strategy for Education, aimed at bringing Industry and Government together in partnership to address the massive global growth opportunity that is the education market and thereby support growth and prosperity...
The Rise and Rise of Video, and why it works……
I was taken by a recent newsletter from Elliot Masie discussing the phenomenal rise in the use of video for learning in many organisations. Masie reported rises of over 1000% in some organisations. Video for learning really has blindsided many of the industries...
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...
e-learning: India, Europe and the USA
This post on e-learning in India, Europe and the USA was prompted by the publication of interesting research by WizIQ. It was titled e-learning trends in India, Facts, Figures and the Future **, which is well worth reading. India is a powerful player in the global...
UNESCO Policy guidelines for mobile learning…..what they may mean for the development industry.
The UNESCO paper, entitled Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning has been recently published, and provides some enthralling examples and ideas as to how Mobile Learning can be used globally for education. With a series of short vignette’s giving examples of innovative...
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...
Is the UK prepared for the growth of MOOC’s? And what is the attitude of the employer?
MOOC’s are here to stay, and they are going to bring a massive change to how and where students learn now and in the future, or it is certainly looking that way considering what we hear from the US. HE Institutions in the US have been feeling the sweeping MOOC...
Making Sense of MOOC’s (and other Open Content) with the great Degree Jail Break
Giving value to learning has always been a challenge especially for those of us dedicated to lifelong and workplace learning, and the options available to us all to learn from MOOCs and Open Education Content resources are becoming massive – pun intended. Here at...
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...
BETT or Learning Technologies Show
With Learning Technologies (LTs) and BETT overlapping for the first time in 2013, we took the opportunity to visit both in quick succession and offer some very real time comparisons. Location, location and organisation Why the overlap, well LTs and its sister show...
What we will see at Learning Technologies 2013
As my inbox fills up with invites to visit stands at Learning Technologies, and Training Press releases gets busier and busier with announcements of launches and seminars, we know Learning Technologies is fully upon us. As well as our usual review based on visiting...
The Top 20 LMS – Infographic by Capterra
The 20 most popular LMS solutions I was taken with the infographic produced by Capterra listing the 20 most popular LMS solutions. The Inforgraphic looks at the numbers of customers, numbers of users and gives an on-line score….a measure of the number of social...
The UK needs a government led strategy for UK e-learning companies to win in growing market
I attended an ELIG (European learning industry group), a long established organisation now newly re-invigorated, you can read more about the event itself on Piers Lea’s Blog, which I have no need to duplicate. The event was sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and Intel,...
Movement in the LMS Market with Moodle growing very fast in brand recognition
A survey published by Elearning magazine looking at Learning and Talent Management Systems predicts strong growth. The research is based on a web based questionnaire covering 26 questions and was completed by 246 organisations. The findings give a good insight into...
How to evaluate e-learning content
Or how do you know if a piece of e-learning content is any good?....... The “bad rap” that e-learning gets from many learners and organisational leaders is often around the poor nature of the e-learning content that is offered. The memories of the dark days of CBT –...
The rise and rise of open content
One of the biggest opportunities and issues for all of us in the e-learning industry – practitioners and developers is the rise and rise of open content. We have blogged about the FLATMAGS……Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon and Google all providing...
When will the tipping point come for mobile learning?
There is an ever growing conviction, and no shortage of investment in mobile learning technologies by the e-learning industry at present, indicating a firm belief that this is the "now" or "next" big thing! In an industry given over to a little too much hype and...
Has e-learning progressed in the last 6 years?
It is very informative to read the excellent publication from UfI Charitable trust: Scaling Up – Achieving a Breakthrough in Adult Learning with Technology where a team of researchers have interviewed a great number of influential individuals in this world of...
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...
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...
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...
Themes from Learning Technologies 2012
So what were the themes we saw at Learning Technologies 2012: Content still key, but of an ever widening genre…… Content developers were still very much in demand by delegates, with Kineo, Brightwave and LINE – with its Learning Architecture and PTK’s excellent game...