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An Open Source eLearning Tool

It seems everyone is never totally happy with their development tools. Be they off-the-shelf (e.g., Lectora, Storyline, et al) or custom. Off-the-shelf is expensive and […] The post An Open Source...

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Osmo: truly blended training

This looks very interesting and promising. While positioned as an educational toy for children, it’s relatively easy to imagine applications in a corporate world (e.g., […] The post Osmo: truly blended...

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Killing the Next Button: Navigating eLearning Courses by Scrolling

You know the drill: open an eLearning course, interact with a screen’s worth of content, and then click Next. But is horizontal navigation really the […] The post Killing the Next Button: Navigating...

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Harvard Prof Stops Lecturing, Embraces Peer-to-peer

Eric Mazur is a physics professor at Harvard whose energetic, charismatic style has made him a popular teacher for decades.  A few years ago, Mazur suddenly renounced his typical […] The post Harvard...

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Social Learning: Beware the Hype Machine

“Social Learning” is something I hear a lot about from our clients and elsewhere. But what it is exactly is tough to say. Everyone has […] The post Social Learning: Beware the Hype Machine appeared...

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XFinity UX – Too Many Clicks

At home I have the new Xfinity cable/DVR boxes. They just updated their User Interface. One of the things they did, which I felt was […] The post XFinity UX – Too Many Clicks appeared first on...

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Back in My Day, Games were Hard

Gregg Collins recently posted about How Games Drive Learning. He also linked to “Does Easy Do It? Children, Games, and Learning,” an article by Seymour […] The post Back in My Day, Games were Hard...

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The Best Training Session You’ll Ever See

I took my first tennis lesson 40 years ago, and I still remember it vividly. What was remarkable about it was that at no time during […] The post The Best Training Session You’ll Ever See appeared...

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Protected: Compulsion Loops and Addictive Training Games

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Compulsion Loops and Addictive Training Games appeared first […] The post Protected:...

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Compulsion Loops and Addictive Training Games

These days, in learning, it’s cool to be gamey.  So, not surprisingly, there’s a lot of hype. And a lot of bad educational games. To get past […] The post Compulsion Loops and Addictive Training Games...

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Unfair Tests and Natural Learning

A recent New York Times Magazine article (“Why Flunking Exams is Actually a Good Thing,” Sep. 4, 2014) describes a fascinating line of research by […] The post Unfair Tests and Natural Learning...

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Reading John Dewey

John Dewey is arguably the greatest philosopher of education the world has seen. Unfortunately, for most of us, his stilted, formal prose causes unpleasant flashbacks […] The post Reading John Dewey...

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Failure-driven Learning versus “Success-driven learning”

The heart of our pedagogical approach is the theory of “failure-driven learning,” which says, in a nutshell, that learning happens only when the world does something different […] The post...

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Failure-driven Learning versus “Coloring Inside the Lines”

In my last post, I talked about the most common challenge to the theory of failure-driven learning. In this post, I want to address another frequent challenge, […] The post Failure-driven Learning...

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Failure-driven Learning: The Science Is In

In a previous post, I mentioned three objections to the theory of failure-driven learning. In this post I want to talk about the third of […] The post Failure-driven Learning: The Science Is In...

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When it’s not up to you: compliance training and decision-making

Training, as we think of it, involves decision-making. We design training for a particular job role by delineating the set of decision-making contexts—tasks—that make up the […] The post When it’s not...

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Learning Styles: Saying Goodbye to a Shibboleth of Instructional Design

If you gave a prize for the most intuitively appealing idea in education, it would probably go to the theory of “learning styles.” The gist […] The post Learning Styles: Saying Goodbye to a Shibboleth...

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Fosway Releases 9-Grid Report

Fosway just released their nine-grid report on learning providers in Europe. They’ve categorized NIIT as a potential leader based on the scope and sophistication of […] The post Fosway Releases 9-Grid...

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Why GameWorks by NIIT Standardized on Unity 3D

Unity 3D is an industrial strength game development engine that lets us create and deploy high end games and simulations. Unity was designed with a […] The post Why GameWorks by NIIT Standardized on...

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Learning Experience Design Reading List

The NIIT learning experience design team has put together a list of our favorite readings. If you have suggestions for other things we should include, […] The post Learning Experience Design Reading...

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A Horoscope for Creatives by Adobe and IBM

IBM recently teamed up with Adobe to offer a free course on aesthetic design on the IBM SkillsBuilder platform. As a fan of design, IBM, […] The post A Horoscope for Creatives by Adobe and IBM appeared...

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How People Learn

The Intelligent Design Series || Part 01 Making correct predictions in pursuit of a goal is a pretty good definition of “intelligence”. Steven Pinker Mistakes […] The post How People Learn appeared...

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Bad Ideas in Learning

One of the talks I give regularly is a rant about various bad ideas in learning that I don’t like. I initially started doing this […] The post Bad Ideas in Learning appeared first on e-Learning Feeds.

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How to Forget Very Important Information

As Gregg put it earlier this week, “learning is based on the ability to remember our experiences and recall them in similar circumstances.” So, for […] The post How to Forget Very Important Information...

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Learning, Natural and Artificial

The Intelligent Design Series || Part 02 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Nature has not adapted the young […] The post Learning, Natural and Artificial appeared...

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