World renowned e-learning

October 31, 2011 Leave a comment

I was shocked when I read ‘Next Learning Unwrapped’, a book by Nick Van Dam which contains case studies of innovative learning work found by the author.

On page 278 there are 10 pages dedicated to 2 e-learning packages, technically designed by myself using Adobe Flash. One package covers an introduction to genetics, whilst the other centres around molecular technology.

It was great to see that the client, Hoffman La-Roche, had noted that were around 1.5 million students that had gone through the learning.

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Data Visualisation and Dynamical Systems

August 12, 2011 Leave a comment

This week I viewed some fantastic presentations from a company called Simudyne that revolved around innovative ways of visualising masses of data as well as incorporating ‘what if’ scenarios to help with planning.

To see an example go to the link below from the companies website:

http://simudyne.com/site/industries/case_studies/drilling_schedule_optmisation

 

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Inventor wins the UK Apprentice!!

July 20, 2011 Leave a comment

Congratulations goes out to Tom.

It’s fantastic that an inventor was backed by Sir Alan, rather than the ‘bland suits’ that he was up against.

What we really need now is for more corporations (especially UK ones) to see the light and progress real visionary people within their organisation, rather than people who just ‘talk a good game’.

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Mobile learning that co-exists with your desktop curriculum

July 7, 2011 Leave a comment

I’m currently in the latter stages developing a series of apps that allow a student to view content from a moodle-based LMS. I know, not knew, but I’ve also modified our moodle database so that for every desktop resource, there are equivalent smartphone/tablet courses available.

Therefore, if a person views our Moodle LMS from their desktop, they get the ‘standard’ desktop course, yet if they access from their iPad/iPhone, they get a differing version tailored for that device.

Other features, such as chat/forums/quizes are then handled on the apps as well to provide a socially rich experience.

I’m very interested on people’s views as to whether my splitting of courseware in this fashion is a good idea, or whether you’ve tried and succeeded in having e-learning that displays well on every device.

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