Archive for July, 2010

Can eLearning designers learn from retail designers?

Creating engaging eLearning Part 1 Last night I was catching up with ‘Mary Queen of Shops’ where she was trying to help a dwindling DIY business based in a sizable village. On her arrival she was met with a busy shop front with all sorts of bric-a-brac displayed haphazardly outside. The windows were packed with [...]

Blaming the trainer?

If you can, do; if you can’t, teach. That phrase has always sat uneasy with me. I first heard it from a fellow student of mine while studying art in Herefordshire College of Art and Design. He was referring to how the tutors at the college wouldn’t be there if they were any good at [...]

Bogus website reviews

I was sitting watching Click, the BBC’s flagship technology programme, the other morning where they reported on bogus reviews on some websites (Websites take on bogus reviewers).  It was saying that although customer reviews on websites can be valuable to us when deciding on using a business or service, there has been a spate of [...]