Making the Distinction Between Serious Games and Gamification – Guest Post by Clark Quinn
Guest post by Clark Quinn (@quinnovator) One of the hottest topics around right now is gamification, and as with any...
Brent Schlenker Interviews US Department of Ed Director of EdTech
Richard Culatta, Director of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education I had the pleasure of talking to one of my...
More Thoughts About Training Influenced by Internet Trends Report 2015
I’m continuing to uncover insights from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report 2015. I posted my initial thoughts this past Tuesday...
What the Words (of L&D) Mean – Guest Post by Jay Cross
Introduction by Brent Schlenker In a series of 2 blog posts Jay Cross shares a few words/phrases and defines them as...
Internet Trends Report Offers Glimpse of The Future of Training and Development?
It’s that time of year again! Mary Meeker released her now famous Internet Trends Report. A little under 200 slides...
How to Love Being a Training Professional…again
ADDIE, Agile, SAM, LLAMA, Aaahhh! It’s enough to make your head spin. Let it go. Training is not complicated. Simple...
Looking Through the Workscape Lens (2 of 2) – GUEST Post by Jay Cross
The previous post on this topic defined your Workscape as a systems view of where work is done and where...
Looking Through the Workscape Lens (1 of 2) – GUEST Post by Jay Cross
Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s where work is done and where people hone...
GUEST POST by Jay Cross: Why Content Curation Should be in Your Training Skillset
Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity...
10 Tips To Effectively Evaluate Your Online Training Strategy
No online training strategy is complete without evaluation. After all, how can you know that you are getting a sound...
The Power of Mobile Learning – part 2 – Guest Post by Clark Quinn
Another way to think about it is where learners are in their development. We use formal learning when they’re novices,...
The Power of Mobile Learning – part 1 – Guest Post by Clark Quinn
Mobile isn’t a fad; the uptake is undeniable and the ubiquity is obvious. Given that you can no longer ignore...
Should Learning Content be in Perpetual Beta? – Guest post by Jay Cross
What is a “beta version”? “We could take beta off all of our products tomorrow, and we wouldn’t actually have...
Improve Training Success with Performance Support – Guest post by Clark Quinn
Courses alone are no longer enough, nor have they ever been. Trying to put information into our employees isn’t always...
We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This! – Guest post by Jay Cross
American business people attend 11,000,000 business meetings every day and half of it’s a waste of time. Knowledge workers spend...
Reflections on Apple, The Cloud, and Litmos
Killing 1.5 hours of my day watching an Apple event requires some sort of value-add for the time spent. And that...
Blending is Better – Guest Post by Dr Clark Quinn
Let’s assume you have something you do for fun outside of work; how did you get good at that? I’m...
eLearning Can Help Solve Global Health Challenges
Reuters recently posted a short review article titled, “E-Learning Matches Traditional Training for Doctors, Nurses: Review“. The World Health Organization commissioned a...
Do You Do a Year in Review?
At the end of every year the interwebs are filled with end-of-the-year reviews. And since, we as a community of...
Mix It Up: 3 Ways to Keep Your Learners Interested
eLearning is a great way to provide a wide range of content that people can conveniently access online whenever they...
What is SCORM?
What is SCORM? In a nutshell being SCORM certified means that you can use the same SCORM published content in...