QR Codes for Trainers

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Kella Price

Want to make your training more interactive? Would you like to engage learners, learn more about them, or offer them additional resources? QR Codes are a fun, effective way to increase interactivity and the likelihood of your learners applying their training. More »

Social Networking: Make It Personal

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Darin Hartley

One of the core principles of social networking systems that is so appealing is the level of personalization they enable. Both off-the-shelf and internally developed social networking systems offer multiple ways to personalize the user experience, from simple automatic ... More »

Walk this Way: Healthcare Leads the Way in Mobile Learning

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Jill Parsons Burger

Ambient Insight analysts track eight types of learning products, one of which is mobile learning. Ambient Insight restricts the definition of mobile learning to events, content, and applications accessed on handheld devices. Mobile learning is starting to gain traction ... More »

Chatting Up Your LMS

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Catherine King

Among the many features that an LMS contains, chats and forums are perhaps the most underused and under appreciated. Yet, academia has long used discussion as the best way to build community and promote learning. So can you, by leveraging the power of chat in your LMS. ... More »

Review: Flash Professional 8

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Deanne Dalrymple

Training Media Review asked a panel of 33 training and education professionals to rate the authoring tools they have used regularly. The review summarizes the comments of the panelists who have used Flash. Best uses The panel's consensus is that Adobe's Flash is a prima... More »