Clive Shepherd twittered a nice presentation ‘e-Learning Sucks’. It covers the fact that most e-learning design just follows traditional instructional design models (’lectures’). I come across this phenomenon often when subject matter experts use authoring tools to braindump their knowledge into powerpoint like e-learning modules. They call this rapid e-learning, but a good friend of mine […]

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Applications of emerging technologies for learning are evolving very rapidly at the moment. Reseach reports and cases on technology-enhanced learning are popping up everywhere in the web. The British BECTA organisation published an interesting report on the “Emerging Technologies for Learning“. In the report six experts describe different emerging technologies and their impact on learning. […]

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Last week London Olympia was the Center of the Universe for Learning Technologies. At the 2-day conference and exhibition “Learning Technologies 2007” 200 conference attendees and more than 3,000 visitors experienced the state of art in what we used to call e-learning. The event was presented as an International Conference, but although the exhibition had […]

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