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The gamification effect - have you had a lost weekend? http://ow.ly/ZNApA

Here's a collection of resources in one blog post to help get anyone started in designing creating engaging and effective eLearning tutorias

Designing eLearning? Here’s a little help from your friends! | Purple Learning Designing eLearning? Here’s a little help from your friends! Posted on September 17, 2012 by Laura Layton-James It’s been clear for some time now that organisations are moving increasingly towards implementing e-learning to improve efficiency in delivering training. Whether the e-learning...

My review on 'Digital Teaching Platforms' for the eLearning Magazine

Digital Teaching Platforms: a review | Purple Learning Digital Teaching Platforms: a review Posted on August 13, 2012 by Laura Layton-James A little while back I was asked if I’d like to write another review for eLearn Magazine. Here’s an extract: “When I read the title of this book I was intrigued. Admittedly, at first I only read the main t...

Here's a little post from a few weeks back on thinking positively about achieving that eLearning designing goal

Dream the impossible e-dream | Purple Learning Dream the impossible e-dream Posted on August 9, 2012 by Laura Layton-James Another nail struck firmly on the head by Clive Shepherd in his post on the four Ts. So often, when keen individuals walk through our training room doors, their expectations are high. Unfortunately, equally, their...

Today's blog looking at how SlideShare is being used as a marketing tool for a particular business but also how it is a very useful learning resource too.

Slides that Rock! | Purple Learning Slides that Rock! Posted on April 27, 2012 by Laura Layton-James SlideShare: where we can learn from others I’ve just read an interesting article from a SlideShare subscription alert. It was interesting on a number of levels. The article ‘Slides that Rock’ describes 5 ways Sl...

Here's my blog post on learning objectives that appeared a few weeks back - must get into the habit of posting immediately here!

The problem with learning objectives…. | Purple Learning The problem with learning objectives…. Posted on April 13, 2012 by Laura Layton-James …is the confusion over what they really are. The debate over the importance of learning objectives continues. I enjoyed reading a recent post by Clive Shepherd and more particularly the res...

A little rant about 'pre-work'. My latest post.

Pre-work – Is it work or isn’t it? | Purple Learning Pre-work! There’s no such thing. Pre-work! – what exactly do we mean by this? Work is either work or it’s not. And if it’s not ‘work’ what is it? Is it reading? If so, reading is something you do therefore it’s work! Is it watching (a video)? If so, it’s still doing ergo work. There’s nothin...

Is your organisation Olympic fit? How are you going to ensure business as usual?

An Olympic Online Opportunity | Purple Learning At 12:49 on Wednesday 6 July 2005, I was travelling in Staffordshire to a training venue listening for the imminent announcement of who was going to ‘win’ the Olympic Games for 2012. Now, I’m not a big sports fanatic but I couldn’t help but join in very excitedly with a big ‘WHOOP WHOOP!’ as Jacque...

If I build it will they come? A post from a few weeks back ..

Field of Dreams! | Purple Learning I’m sitting here in my hotel room catching up with some much neglected research via my Twitter network with half an ear on the TV (who said I couldn’t multi-task – oh yes, that was me!). The programme is Alex Polizzi’s ‘The Fixer’ where she advises waning businesses on how to improve. This week it’...

My first commissioned book review is published today - Yay!

E-Learning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer: A review | Purple Learnin Towards the end of last year I was asked if I’d like to contribute to the online e-learning magazine ‘eLearn Magazine‘ by writing a book review. I was honoured to be asked and eagerly agreed.

Tools are just tools - don't be a bad workmand by blame the tool

Rapid authoring tools – they’re just dishwashers really! | Purple Learning If you haven’t already noticed (and if that’s the case, what planet are you on?), there’s vast choice of media tools out there. Increasingly in today’s climate organisations are looking at leveraging these tools’ abilities to learn and work more efficiently. In fact, organisations can see great pote...

A discussion during a recent training course I delivered recently prompted my thoughts on training compliance through e-learning

You can’t create engaging compliance eLearning! | Purple Learning Actually, the conversation we had was more about whether eLearning that is designed to cover what people should do rather than what they should know would be accepted by the stakeholders requesting the eLearning. Previously we’d had some great discussions about how scenarios and stories can help th...