Brian Dusablon

When Are You Going to Learn?

When are you going to learn that HTML5 is not the technology you want to use for authoring content! It may be how you want to deliver it, but those two things aren’t necessarily attached to one another.

- Reuben Tozman – “DevLearn

TWiB: Been A While

Been a while since I’ve posted one of these. But, some great reads out there recently.

Creating Losing Designs – great ideas on using low stakes losing to motivate learners.

“The Smart Worker Needs Job Aids Rather than Courses” – this is a great series. Read ‘em all.

Learning is Social. Training is Irrelevent? – Yes.

The Death of the Traditional Enterprise

Review: DesignJot – the first iPad app for learning development? Great review.

Spanning Sync’s 1 Year Anniversary – congratulations, guys! Great product.

Book Review: ‘Game Frame’ by Aaron Dignan

“I teach the way I wish I had been taught”

Khan has no training or experience in teaching, and his videos are relatively crude by the standards of online course material produced by traditional educational publishers. They consist almost exclusively of Khan explaining things in conversational English while doing the equivalent of writing on a blackboard, which he does without benefit of a script or even a second take.

“I teach the way I wish I had been taught,” said Khan…

- Steven Pearlstein: Mark them tardy to the revolution – The Washington Post

Engagify Before You Gamify

Perhaps gamify if you have to, but only after you’ve first tried to engagify. Please.

- Clark Quinn – “Engagification”

Yes.

(via Kevin)

The New Learning Architect

The new learning architect designs environments that enable specific target populations to take maximum advantage of all these opportunities for learning.

Meet the new learning architect

Very cool new book from Clive Shepherd. You can pre-order it now, but they will also be releasing a chapter each month for free.