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For me, the process of planning and building a working model of an e-learning solution is always fun and exciting. After Analysis, my solutions mainly lead to transforming activities into a scenario and have the learner work through it with some questions on decisions, with some other forms of cool interactivity components. The reason IContinue reading “Scenario Based Learning”

As you know, it’s terrible to get stuck in the airport for several hours on end. For those who travel frequently like me, one stuck in the airport is really unbearable, if you do not know what to do. Instead of being bored at the airport, I came up with a few ideas that may help you shorten the time. Trust me, sitting in the terminal for hours on end can be theContinue reading “Flights and boredom”

Whether it’s videos, dramas, stories, illustrated books, enhanced children’s environments, or simple puppet plays, edutainment qualifies as as an awesome teaching medium I like to use daily. But it’s that tricky gray area where edutainment crosses the border between enrichment and pure entertainment that some people may get antsy. How much is too much? WhenContinue reading “Edutainment”

Thinking skills are not mysterious entities existing somewhere in the mind. Nor are they like mental muscles that have a physical presence in the brain. What the term refers to is the human capacity to think in conscious ways to achieve certain purposes. Such processes include remembering, questioning, forming concepts, planning, reasoning, imagining, solving problems,Continue reading “Thinking Skills”

Last week, I presented at Learn-X’s Australian Instructional Design Conference, held at Melbourne Convention Center, Thursday 14th March. Was good to be presenting again, even though I have lots on at work and personal life. My topic was “People, Processes and Pleasures of Publishing”. Yes for all you English majors, the alliteration was intentional. I thought IContinue reading “Conference Talk Reflection”

Last week I was explaining to a lovely woman what I do for a living and how I try and help businesses. Afterwards it led to a discussion between her and I on why I chose to go into my career choice of Instructional Design. When I was a teenager I remember being very frustratedContinue reading “Why I do what I do”

If one were to extrude the space-time continuum along a fifth dimension, and define existence as the limit at infinity along this dimension, then any time travel would be unstable and would never persist until infinity. Whatever effect a future event had on the past would alter time to prevent the future even from everContinue reading “Time travel”

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope all had a good time over the silly season and are all ready to go back to the joys of work. I am lucky that I enjoy my job as I learn new things every day, just one of the perks of being in an educational publisher.It isContinue reading “The joys of Educational Publishing”

It’s important to understand the distinction between apps and eBooks, as it’s something that often confuses both publishers and consumers. It basically comes down to formats; apps are mostly native iOS or Android software, whereas eBooks are documents of a particular format, such as the open standard EPUB. And eBooks can be further distinguished fromContinue reading “Interactive Books”

After taking a look at a number of potential cross-platform solutions for my future larger-scale development plans, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia which has me thinking about my programming journey. What I find most interesting is that there is a noticeable trend which may just be starting to reverse itself, but first, lets start the journeyContinue reading “Ahh the memories…”