Microsoft Surface was formally launched and is now available in 12 countries. A school in the UK used it for a day; here’s what they did with it:

Articulate’s suite of products rate high in the rapid authoring segment. We have used them for several projects, and have found them very effective for development and simple to use. They give standards-conformant output, and save development time and cost.

This month’s Big Question from the Learning Circuits blog asks:

It’s everywhere – these varied conversations about learning games and the spending of millions of dollars to further the state of art in learning games. I’ve been on a similar tack; however, it’s quite obvious that most training departments don’t have the millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars that are required for sophisticated learning game development nor do they have the many months it can take to develop a full-fledged game.

Last month, Ron Chapman suggested that eLearning was just a passing fad. This created much furore, and several learning and training experts refuted his claim.

Many companies claim that employees are their greatest asset. But how does their treatment of their employees give truth to this claim? Has anyone asked the employees if they feel valued?

We closely watch technology trends, trawling the data-sphere looking for interesting technology that will have implications on how we live, work and learn in the future. One of the sites we frequent is TED, ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. Here is something interesting we picked up earlier from TED, a video of Pattie Maes demonstrating the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable technology.

Rapid authoring tools are the most popular option when it comes to rolling out quick, low cost elearning. However, the elearning world seems to be divided into two camps on the subject. There are those who are amazed by the results that these D-I-Y tools can give; and then there are those who get iffy about its rock-star dazzle blinding people to honest-to-goodness elearning creation.

The Goal
So you’re in charge of your organization’s Training and Development function. You’ve evaluated several training alternatives and you’re convinced that eLearning could be the answer to at least a few of your organization’s knowledge and skill upgradation needs. Now you have to bell the cat. How are you going to sell this to your boss? She’s practical, results-oriented, and on a tight schedule, and if she thinks you’re wasting her time, she’s unlikely to be amenable to your ideas.

Over the last few days, we’ve been exploring QR codes and trying to think of applications for these codes for our LMS and learning in general. Thought I’d share some of our thoughts on this cool technology.

February’s Learning Circuits Blog Big Question asks:

What is the impact of the economy on you and your organization? What are you doing as a result?

Actually the question should be, “Why another blog—in an already prodigious blogosphere—that is eLearning centric and wants to be a knowledge resource and…” well I could go on, but I am sure that you, the discerning reader, are already aware of why corporates blog.