My first child was distance learning: online college courses. That kid never thought things were as convenient as they could be. My second, the middle child (so far), was corporate elearning. That kid has an attention problem. My third child, my precious baby, is mlearning. I know I’m not supposed to have a favorite…but this [...]

Conference News! This April, in Chicago, I will be speaking about  mlearning design and strategy at Learning Tech 2012. I love Chicago. It’s a city with an energy that makes events especially invigorating. I hope to see you there, April 23-25. For more information, I contacted Courtney Green in New York to ask her about [...]

I feel some guilty pleasure when other trainers and elearning developers become jealous of my elearning app for the iPad. Because the Mac iOS doesn’t support Flash, many of my colleagues haven’t been able to take advantage of the best elearning tool ever: the iPad. My app did not cost that much ($7,000 developed in [...]

So much work has been done to take code out of the equation. We’ve become a WYSIWYG generation with all the convenient tools for web and elearning development. This WordPress blog you are reading is a perfect example, and the proliferation of blogs in the past 5 years is a direct result of WYSIWYG tools. These DIY [...]

What are the skills you need to land an elearning job? Working in elearning taps into many skill sets. Designing or developing elearning  requires experience in training and project management as much as audio and video production. I focus here on what I think are the top skills for elearning now, in 2011. These are [...]

Tony Karrer posted a list of the trending hot topics in eLearning for 2009, based on stats from his eLearningLearning.com site. Nothing is too surprising, but it’s very helpful how Tony linked to some of the more popular articles and blog posts related to each topic. Below are the hottest trending topics we saw in [...]

I will be heading to Chicago on Tuesday for the Corporate University Summit, a corporate learning and development conference. I will be presenting a session on mobile learning on Wednesday, and I plan on spending the rest of the time making connections with peers and absorbing as much I can from the other presenters. Here [...]