Interview with Instructional Design Pioneer, Dean Pichee
It is often a challenge to find the pioneers of instructional design for not only e-learning, but also the days of CBT (Computer-Based Training) and before that when we had LANs and WANs with text driven content that went out to the masses. Anyone who grew up during those days, remembers when office computers, and…
Reskilling vs Skilling, E-Learning Selection, and more
This quarterly addition focuses on the reskilling vs skilling question, educational institutions and e-learning, what to look for in a consultant when seeking learning technology and/or learning systems; and what I see as relevant when looking at a learning system. Q: I read that you are a proponent of the idea of reskilling over upskilling.…
Confused? Welcome to the Learning System World of 2024
I just read (1-31-24) that during the Pandemic, students (EdTech, K-12, Higher Education) went down something like 4% in learning. That’s not good. I blame it on two areas – that seem to reverberate that e-learning isn’t as effective (I disagree). The first? Professors and teachers only do synchronous-based learning (which I believe isn’t as effective…
Frontline Workers + Online Learning – Does it work?
I don’t know about you, but I remember you from my first job. I was 16 years old. I was hired by a department chain (name not to be released because they are out of business now, and I can’t fully recall it). Rather than placing me into the music section, a dream for any 16-year-old,…
ChatGPT, Gen-AI and Learning Systems – The Latest
Last week, I attended a conference in Amsterdam. The conference? World of AI Summit (as in Artificial Intelligence). While, as with any conference, there were good sessions, especially the opening sessions in the morning, I was a bit surprised at how many of the speakers never addressed a couple of points, including the “what happens…
The AI Guide – R U Asking the Right Questions?
Before diving into the topic this week, you probably realized that you haven’t seen any posts in the last two weeks. There is a reason for that, for those who were unaware. In the cliff notes version it goes like this – I suffered a near-drowning episode at the end of July, which admittingly I…
Did you know? Learning Systems Vol 3
LMS aka Learning Management System. LXP – Learning Experience Platform. Learning Platform. Cohort-based learning platform. Employee Experience Platform (bad name for it). Employee Development Platform. There is a lot there for types of systems as I have noted before. I can’t forget the joke of micro-learning platforms, ignoring that micro-learning has been around since 2000,…
The LIST of Top Learning Systems (LMS, LXP, EDP, Learning Platforms)
Employee Development. Deskless Workers. Customer Training. Associations. L&D. Training. A List of Learning Systems for all of them, and so many more. There are today, over 1,600 learning systems in the world. They come nowadays in all varieties – LMS, LXP, LXP+, Skilling focused, Skill Measurement, Learning Platforms, Coaching, Mentoring, Employee Development Platform – Learning…
5 Questions U must Ask Every Vendor with Gen-AI
Vendors are a clever bunch of folks. Whether they are selling learning technology, content/courses, or even learning systems. I saw this firsthand at LTUK. Those who have Gen-AI in their system, platform content/courses, and technology are noted very visibly. Some who didn’t even have it pitched it at those vendor sessions on the floor. Lots…
FindContent.io – The New Way to Find Content
Happy days are here again, oh happy days are here again; blah blah, blah blah ..BLAH. I would sing the rest, but as you can see, I forgot the words, plus I’m lazy to look them up. Anyway, the day is here – the launch of FindContent.io, my newest platform, to help YOU find the…