After watching Sugata Mitra’s wonderful TED talk on building a school in the cloud it made me look at the direction we are moving towards in education and what technology can do to help. Sugata Mitra, the 2013 TED prize winner, starts his story by looking at where the current model of...
Serious Games vs Gamification
posted by Mark Gibson
In many organisations e-learning from a learners perspective can be a painful experience. Typically you’ll set aside 30 minutes, take a deep breath and sit through what is essentially a voiced-over PowerPoint in Flash format. If you are lucky it may include some small clips of lacklustre video or some stock animations. Many organisations are poor at the use and design of PowerPoint presentations for business communications or classroom training, and even if they are pedagogically valid they often fail to efficiently engage learners. As such, when it comes to reformatting such presentations into e-learning, the results are often left...
Spring clean!
posted by Mark Gibson
Welcome to the new look of the site! I’ve updated the infrastructure, gone for a new template and cleaned out all the old articles. Time for a spring clean! I’ll go through the older ones that are still of use and update them and add them over the next few months. Feel free to...
Grasping the Cloud
posted by Mark Gibson
With everyone jumping on a cloud-based bandwagon, many SaaS offerings seem only to relate to a true cloud offering in the mind of the marketing department. Just because an application has a web interface or is hosted remotely doesn’t make it a cloud application. While the provision of...