eLearning Branching Scenarios can Learn from Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell...
I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...
There are multiple stages each learner goes through in the process of learning something new. Learning (as well as “online learning” and “eLearning” and...
I was struck when I joined the world of corporate training about how widespread the use of interactive PDFs was as an eLearning tool...
Online learning tools like LMSes and 3rd party apps offer a variety of ways to notify learners of key events in their course. The...
Sure, games are fun. But #gamification often falls short of its promises and fails to produce the learning goals we want. #learningdesign
In this post, we’ll discuss the difference between “just in case” learning and “just in time” learning, showing the ideal use cases for each.
I’ve never felt that digital mind-mapping apps offered much improvement over pen-and-paper drawing. Mind mapping is supposed to be a creative, right-brained experience, and...
Until recently, I worked on Propero.org, a collection of accredited, self-paced, online learning courses where students work at their own pace and pick up...
I am a big believer in RSS News Aggregators as a core technology for lifelong learning. By allowing each individual person to curate their...
I’ve long been a believer that teachers should explore open source edtech tools as an alternative to all the free, freemium, ad-supported, and privacy-invading...