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As a kid growing up, our house had a lot of pictures of clowns. Framed no less, some innocent enough, others downright weird.  When the movie Poltergeist came out with the clown part in it, yeah, that was it for me.  From that moment on, clowns were not my friends. Nowadays, frightening clowns are everywhere. …

I thought it would be easy.  Easy to find information on how to build an effective online course (aka as WBT).  I thought a few pages into Google and something would be viewable for everyone to understand. Then I did the search.  And repeated it six months later.  And what I saw, was poor.  Theory…

Find all our Student Opinion questions here. Have you noticed when YouTube suggested videos that promoted a certain ideology? Have you ever encountered racist or extremist content online? Did you ever feel that someone or some group on the internet was trying to persuade you to believe a certain way? In the Opinion essay “Racists…

I’d love to tell you that the forecasts below are all happy stardust and puppies, but the fact is, well they are not.  A few have the potential to switch from a negative to positive, others well, it comes down to a variety of variables, now that we are all in this together (the Pandemic).  …

Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more niche segments in the learning system space, I’m sorry to say, “nope, there is one more.”  But this new segment, while niche today, by 2025, will be the second biggest segment in the learning system space.   Niche today.  Behemoth within four years.  Talent Development Platforms are…

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. After all, making one stop won’t be enough. For those of us who were there the first time around, we saw quite a bit with e-learning and the world for online corporate learning. Dinosaurs roamed. Dot.com was in full bloom. WebVan would go…

It’s that time of the year. Spring is just around the corner (okay for me), and your pets (if you have any) are demanding table scraps and not the stuff you feed them. This week’s blog covers a few notes from around the industry, some thoughts I have about various e-learning and learning technology, including…

A person stops a stranger on the street to ask a question. Another performs an act of kindness. Another plays a prank. Another makes fun of someone without the person knowing. All of these interactions are recorded and then posted online, without the consent of the subject.Have you ever come across a video like this…

I’m the worst when it comes to questions. I often will ask way too many questions to a vendor, regardless of if they are a learning system, e-learning solution, other providers or a 3rd party publisher. I will usually say, okay this is the last question, then follow-up with another question. Perhaps it is a…

It’s May 2022, which means the kickoff for the L&D and Training community to attend the biggest trade shows/expos in the industry. LTUK, the best in Europe and UK – and does attract an international audience, and ATD which grabs an international audience with the majority being from the U.S (the guide to see whom…