When I began my career 20 years ago, I was designing some of the earliest CD-ROM based simulations for the US Navy. These experiences involved free-play interactions that used sophisticated algorithms, variable tracking, and multipathing. [...]
If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. Everyone is talking about increasing engagement, and many are turning to gamification, social learning networks, and anything [...]
You’ve spent months, perhaps years even, curating content and working with subject matter experts to perfect your association’s new eLearning offerings, and it’s finally time to launch your course(s)! Congratulations! Give yourself a round of [...]
If you were in attendance at the 2013 Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACHEP) conference last week there is no doubt you heard the term "gamification" more than once. Games and simulations [...]
Craig Weiss, the author of the popular E-Learning 24/7 blog, recently featured Digitec company president Jack McGrath during a half hour long interview for the blog’s podcast series. Mr. Weiss posed interesting questions regarding trends [...]
When it comes to Mobile Learning, or mLearning as it's become known, it's amazing how quickly attitudes change. Today, with the staggering growth of iPad and iPhone apps, the learning community is scrambling to apply [...]
Team Training - a perfect fit for Co-Op Play So we've made some projections of what the future might hold for e-Learning. This is a posting on what we can do today to implement some [...]
So, today I was interviewed by Training magazine for the October issue, which will be featuring game-based learning. To prepare for the interview, I started listing some predictions I have for the future of eLearning [...]
The most common question we hear related to game-based learning is... does it really work? And that's a question that has been difficult to answer using actual research... until now. Last week, the University of [...]
It seems as though Web 2.0 is pushing everyone in IT to change the paradigm, making the online experience more user-focused and experiential. And eLearning is no exception. Nowadays, a simple drag and drop "game" [...]