The best time to learn is when you’re not sure of something.  When you’re sure you know the answer but it’s wrong learning can be difficult.  You have to unlearn the wrong piece of information first, and only then can you learn what’s correct.  If you don’t know something and have no interest in learning […]

The ultimate goal of reporting is to find a way to measure a user’s retention of the information they have learned in the course.  Now this is a particularly difficult and fraught question because it seems like an impossibility for a course which has a defined duration (say 10 minutes) to check whether a user […]

Almost no one likes sitting in a classroom for an extended period of time.  And yet almost no one minds sitting in a movie theater for two or more hours at a time.  That fact right there should tell us that there is more going on under the surface of “Micro-learning” than just making everything […]

I have a personal beef with PowerPoint.  PowerPoint is a tool which allows people in the same room to communicate.  As it happens people already have a tool that works really well for this same task: having a conversation.  Call me a luddite if you want, but for all of PowerPoint’s fancy tricks I still […]