e-learning

Read any article on the internet today, and you will usually see “summary” at the beginning. I often see this as a quick take, and whether its objective is to have you read the article or just bypass it, it doesn’t inspire. Rather, it taps into AI, and as a result, can be ignorant of…

This month’s questions include best practices for creating content/courses; RFPs/RFIs, Relevance of Learning in 2026. Q: We are new to creating courses and see the terms you use – “content creator” and what others use “authoring tools.” Is there a difference? We have a lot of videos we want to use as separate courses –…

Remote Learner. On a scale of one to 10, where one is the worst word you can come up with to describe online learning in the education sector, aka EdTech, and 10 is where the word you should have used to describe it, education, and I’m looking at you, colleges and universities, scored a one.…

My name is Craig, and I’m working in a job that requires me to learn about Microsoft Word because I’ll use it often. You know some things but not everything. You might be interested in using AI, like Copilot, with Word or learning to use macros or VBA in Excel. You can learn to create…

There is an assumption, with too many vendors, that anyone reaching out to them for a learning system, regardless of type, has a strong foundation for an e-learning (aka online learning) program. Equally, they believe these individuals, with their unique roles and responsibilities, have or know that this foundation is crucial. Instead, many folks are…

Where were you? I’m sure you heard this phrase where someone said, “Where were you when ABC happened?” “What was your reaction?”The same can be applied to the first time you heard of whateverX. I remember sitting on a bench in Mexico City, where I saw three teens lip-synching to a song and posting it…

Learning Technology: LMS, LXP, LMS/LXP, Skills Platform, Learning Platform, Authoring Tools, Third-Party Content Providers, EdTech (K-12, Higher Education). E-Learning tools. EDP, and the list continues. Trust. Customer support, technical support, meeting obligations presented before or as part of the signing, promises unfilled, survival one minute, sale the next, consolidation (albeit the numbers are very small),…

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…

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.…

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…