I was really surprised to find that an eLearning / learning technology conference I’m attending in Sydney in June does not have a presence on Twitter. In fact, the very same event must have just announced the winners of their 2010 awards on their website but the only way I... more
When you take on the task of building a Learning Management System (LMS) from scratch you’re actually designing and building a system to manage content, training courses, people and reporting information. A great deal of planning, design, analysis, testing, time, energy, sweat, re-building, re-designing, and re-testing goes in to it,... more
‘By 2020 over 50% of all courses will be delivered online’ – Dr. Cathy Mincberg This was the statistic that Dr Cathy Mincberg, Vice President and Chief Academic Officer at KC Distance Learning, ended her presentation with at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation event “Creating a Literacy Spine by... more
Wainhouse Research has released results of a report conducted by profiling a group of big vendors in the eLearning, web conferencing and video space. Some pretty huge growth is estimated in these areas for the next few years, some of which is mentioned below: Wainhouse Research estimates the overall educational... more
We’re happy to announce the release of the new ‘Team Leader’ role in the Litmos Learning Management System. This much-requested permission level sits squarely in between a regular ‘Trainee’ and a ‘Training Administrator’ and fulfills a very specific purpose. The Team Leader cannot create or edit training courses but they... more
Today in my Google Reader list I found a very interesting post from eLearning Designer Jeffery Goldman (@minutebio) called ‘A Great Example of Using Multiple Forms of Media‘. Goldman’s post centers around a very successful interactive project created by Domani Studios and The Martin Agency called ‘We Choose the Moon‘.... more
Today I’ve been checking out iTunes U for the first time. It’s been around a few years so I’m not sure why I hadn’t looked at it before. But if you haven’t checked it out either it is a specialized area of the Apple iTunes store that enables Higher Ed... more
The guys from Microsoft NZ dropped by our office last week to film a short interview with Litmos Founder, Rich Chetwynd. They asked a few questions about the Litmos Learning Management System (LMS) and were keen to hear how our experience in the BizSpark program was going… Here is the... more
The Guardian.co.uk recently posted an interesting article called “Mobile learning for schools: a class without walls“. The article focuses on a Sheffield (UK) secondary school who, in line with the UK Government’s Manifesto for Learning Outside the Classroom (instigated three years ago), have made significant changes to the way their... more
There’s a lot of pressure when it’s your first blog post of a new year! So, I’m just going to take the pressure off by mentioning a post (or many posts to be precise) that I was reading earlier today and found to be very interesting and useful. It’s called... more
