Brain surgery is incredibly hard and everyone knows it. eLearning design—let’s face it—is not brain surgery. It’s worse. It’s just a little more difficult than most people realize. No one just gives brain surgery “a try” without the right education and experience, but just about everyone who has ever been in a classroom and had [...]

The landscape of learning management system (LMS) vendors is constantly changing. There have been dozens of acquisitions in the past decade, including a big one this week. This can be a scary time if your organization happens to be using an LMS that gets acquired by or merged with another company. After all, you’ve most [...]

I was never really good in art class growing up. I’d immerse myself in the project of the day and be proud of what I’d made, only to look up at the end and discover that everyone else had glued their macaroni or painted their plate just a little better than I. I particularly liked [...]

Ding-dong. Girls. Girls’ club. An organization for young girls, young women, powerful women. And it’s for the kids! Delicious cookies. (It teaches them about business. About selling. Money. Honesty.) I’d like to sell to you, for $3.50, a box of thin chocolaty-minty learning cookies. Learning that you would enjoy. Binge on. Freeze for later. And even [...]

Words and images spread fast online. Internet 2.0 offers many tools for sharing a status update or image with a network, which can then share with a larger network, and when something goes viral, it seems that everybody knows. In elearning, we are in the business of putting images together to train employees and clients. [...]

Experience tells me that elearning people do not have a lot of time to go back to the vault of existing training and revise it. New projects dripping with deadlines take priority. Still, it’s not easy knowing that the older elearning is out there and that new hires will be required to take those courses–or [...]

Tom Kuhlmann is VP of Community at Articulate. I can’t think of a cooler thing to be VP of—especially right now. Community and elearning are trending big time. You can visit the Community page on Articulate’s web site and learn that, as VP of community, Kuhlmann’s “ job is simple — to turn our users into [...]

Hello eLearning Weekly fans and readers! This post is my first editorial comment since coming on board as the Managing Editor at eLearning Weekly. I am pumped up with adrenaline and elearning energy because next week is the official relaunch. Next week, after Labor Day, eLearning Weekly will kick off a series of regular new content [...]

After writing weekly posts for nearly 3 years, I’m going to take a break for a while. Everything is going well personally and professionally (knock on wood), and I expect to return to blogging before too long. In the meantime, you can keep up with me on Twitter (@bjschone). A big “thank you” to all [...]

I’ve come up with a few ideas for my New Year’s Resolutions for 2010. Next year, I will… Experiment more with technology I usually do a decent job with this, but I’m going to do a better job in 2010 of trying lots of new software, tools, web sites, web applications, etc. I don’t need [...]