Author Archives: theirishduck

I have been working on a few mini apps and SCORM packages at work lately and the discussion of splash screens and their relevance and importance came up. For those that don’t understand, splash screens are those still images that fill the screen of a mobile device when you open up the app. On aContinue reading “Splash Screen Debate”

Responsive (or Adaptive) design means that your design adapts to the screen it is viewed on. Simply put, smaller screens have less space. You can’t fit as much on the screen, and the layout adjusts accordingly. People expect to be able to take training wherever they are, with whatever device they happen to have inContinue reading “Responsive eLearning thoughts”

Scratch is a name anyone interested in the game based learning field will most likely have heard about. It is one of the longer running research projects and has a large online community. The project has been running since 2003 and since its public launch in May 2007 it has been attracting more and moreContinue reading “Scratch”

This question I get asked time and time again. It is the most common question but also one of the most difficult to answer. At least, for customized training. Off the-shelf products have a fixed price and typically are less expensive, but you also lose the ability to tailor the training to your unique company.Continue reading “That common question”

Working for a high powered customer focused retail organisation it comes with no surprise that they would like to be on the pulse with their learning offerings for staff. Being part of the Retail Operations Learning and Development Team allows me to work with a great set of professionals talented in different capacities. The WorkplaceContinue reading “Hazard Identifcation VR Solution”

Boring eLearning is a huge problem for learners and instructors alike. Everyone in the L&D profession knows this. The problem is, why are people still creating boring courses? Online lessons are often boring for the same reasons that traditional classes are boring. The problem of boredom won’t go away simply by avoiding it. You haveContinue reading “Boredom Taxonomy”

I always have lots of ideas buzzing on my brain. Most of them involve small form programmable devices, and the more connected, the better. So when I saw information on the new Raspberry Pi 3, I just went and got myself one. For those that do not know, it is a tiny computer with WiFiContinue reading “Raspberry Pi for me”

At work lately, I have been given the job to create an interactive 3D model framework. Sure, I have done stuff in Blender3D and OpenGL in the past, but I thought, how can I do this on the web (most browser support), tablet/mobile friendly and make some things dynamic. Back when I started web development, VRML wasContinue reading “Interactive Web 3D”

Virtual reality (VR) refers to the computer-generated simulation of a world, or a subset of it, in which the user is immersed. It represents the state of the art in multimedia but concentrates on the visual senses. VR allows the user to experience situations that are too dangerous or expensive to enter ‘in the flesh’.Continue reading “Virtual and Augmented Reality Research”

Working in the eLearning scene the last ten plus years I have been with a lot of companies who do not fully understand how people “learn”. I was fortunate that I did a psychology subject at university that covered this very topic. Basically, there are four main categories or frameworks under which learning theories fall:Continue reading “Learning Theories Research”