If you’re in the learning design business or working with game based learning, then you’ve probably come across the term “Agile” a lot recently, so we’re going to try and make sense of it. For almost 40 years the ADDIE … Continue reading
Learning and Development professionals have been hearing about learning games and game based learning over and over again for a few years now. Game based instructional techniques are growing in popularity, yet many instructional designers lack the skill set to design … Continue reading
This is an excerpt from Sharon Boller’s newest white paper, Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today’s learning landscape… then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 – 18 months. Here is Trend 6: Twitter chats, Twitter lists, massive open … Continue reading
On Thursday, January 17th 2013 I attended “Training as a Business Strategy,” a CIASTD session led by Jennifer Zinn, VP of Commercial Education and Communications at Roche Diagnostics. This is my summary of the ideas Jennifer shared with us. I’ve … Continue reading
Most of us are curious about tomorrow (hence, our fascination with all the predictions for the upcoming year)… but we live in today. At BLP, we have plans to report on top training trends we see emerging in 2013, but … Continue reading
If you are a one person instructional design team, this post is for you. 2012 is almost over and now is the perfect time to gear up for next year’s eLearning projects. You probably already have some great ideas for … Continue reading
Profit margins are razor thin and the business landscape is more competitive than ever. Past inefficiencies that were once tolerable at work are now unsustainable. As businesses, we must adapt or contract. But where does this leave the learning and … Continue reading
We had a great time at DevLearn 2012 in Las Vegas. Since we were there in part to launch or Knowledge Guru™ learning game engine, we were especially tuned in to what was being said about learning games at the conference… … Continue reading
Traditional eLearning may be on its way out, but it is still with us today. In fact, some companies still rely on it heavily. It’s our job to look to the future, while also catering to present needs. In today’s … Continue reading
We’ve made it to Part Four of our Games for Change blog series. In Part One, we gave some back story about our game, A Paycheck Away. In Part Two, we talked about our first game design workshop. Part Three was all about … Continue reading
