The cost of using eLearning

I am contacted weekly by companies or individuals that are interested in having eLearning developed for their organisations. What many don’t understand is what it costs and what is required to create and deploy GOOD eLearning content. Well I’m here to tell you that for every hour of good eLearning, it is going to take, at least, 50 hours of development. Yup you heard me 50 hours. Add it up and you already have costs far [...]

Mobile Learning on the iPad

The iPad, the latest and greatest Tablet to enter the marketplace in a long time. I have used tablet computers before but nothing like this. So let’s talk about how this one device can change the mobile learning space. Smartphones are small light and basically a little computer in your pocket. The iPad takes most of that capability and increases the size of it my 300%. This offers the content provider an amazing wealth of [...]

Outmodels in the wild

This is an amazing article/statement along with the photo I found on Flickr. It is so cool I had to present it here as part of my eLearning blog. I would love to hear what you think of it! An organized system of learned behavior that is a total way of life of a people. Each circle represents an individual with an outmodel (M) that represents its individual view of the world (color). The outmodel [...]

Creating a working virtual classroom space

When one is starting to create a virtual classroom space for their organization, many questions arise. This article we hopefully help you answer some of those and make your first session a brilliant one. Tip 1 Content from the real classroom doesn’t always carry over well. Consider some of these factors.. … you can’t read the faces of the people in the room so other forms of feedback will be important to ensure they comprehend, such [...]

mLearning, the Next Generation

You have heard of classroom learning, blended learning and eLearning, now here comes mLearning! mLearning or Mobile learning uses mobile devices such as smartphones and iPod touches and even iPads to provide learning to the student. A great example of this is in the ESL arena. Students learning English can walk down the street, listening to words and repeating them. It looks like they are talking on the phone but they could actually be doing [...]