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eLearning folks: Today through Thursday 10/17 only, Packt Publishing is offering 50% off its entire catalog of eBooks and Videos, including the very good book on Articulate Storyline that I recently reviewed, as well as titles on Adobe Captivate and other products. Use this link: bit.ly/1bqvB29 and enter this code at checkout: COL50 to obtain the…

As you may know, this year I started creating a free, quarterly Tips newsletter, and the response to my first two issues has been great.  This Tuesday I’ll be releasing the Fall edition of my newsletter, and it’s all about the use of color in your eLearning. In each issue of my free Tips newsletter,…

Tom Kuhlmann, VP of Community for Articulate, and David Anderson, Community Manager at Articulate, were at the New York Institute of Technology in NYC on 9/24-25 to teach two one-day classes targeted to folks who are new to eLearning.  On the evening of 9/24, Tom also gave a separate talk about where eLearning fits into…

If you’re following the discussion around Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) and how they fit (or don’t fit) into higher education, you might find a September 3rd article from the Chronicle of Higher Education interesting.  It concerns a leading MOOC professor, sociologist Mitchell Duneier of Princeton, who decided to step away from the current MOOC environment…

Here’s some basic advice about tools that I always share with my students in the eLearning voiceovers classes I teach: For recording your eLearning voiceovers, don’t waste your time and money on a headset microphone.  It may seem more convenient, but you’re not going to get the quality of sound you need to keep people…

I have been developing eLearning content with Articulate Storyline, a programming-free rapid development software, since its beta development phase, prior to its launch in May of 2012.  I was asked by Packt Publishing (www.PacktPub.com) to review their new title, Learning Articulate Storyline by Stephanie Harnett, which is available in both book or eBook format, alone or as…

IF YOU’D LIKE TO LISTEN TO OR DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST VERSION OF THIS POST, PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM. ENJOY! I disagree strongly with a recent article about the purported “dangers” of Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, on slate.com. The author’s generalizations about MOOCs, and the overall tone of the piece, are especially disappointing coming…

Here is my submission for the third and final assignment in Professor Kevin Werbach’s excellent (and, I will mention yet again, free!) Gamification course on Coursera.  To have the best sense of the progression of the course, I would suggest that you start by reading my first assignment, and my second assignment before exploring this one. Both…

Here’s my homework from the second assignment in Professor Kevin Werbach’s thought-provoking (and free!) Gamification course on the Coursera MOOC.  To have the best sense of the progression of thought in the course, you might want to check out my first assignment here before reading this second assignment.  All of my assignment responses are copyright…

I’ve done a number of posts already about my experiences with Professor Kevin Werbach’s excellent (and free!) Gamification course on the Coursera MOOC system.  Professor Werbach has given me permission to share my work on the course assignments, so here is the first of three.  I will post the other two in subsequent weeks.  If…