Adobe unveiled its new Adobe TV site today, offering a variety of video-based instructional sessions (with real talking heads!) focused on using its vast arsenal of creative development tools.
I’ve made the obvious argument several times in the past (An Educated Customer Is a Happy (and Loyal) Customer, Adobe Video Workshop: Adobe Teaches You Adobe, eLearning […]

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Common Craft are a Seattle-based husband and wife team (Lee & Sachi LeFever) with a distinct eLearning development style: they use hand-drawn paper cutouts and real live human fingers (!) for their instructional videos in lieu of fancy schmancy digital graphics and effects.
Or, simply put:
We focus on simplicity, creativity and clear explanations to create videos […]

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I lambasted Lynda.com in my previous post for a clunky navigation scheme that is needlessly annoying for the learner. I hope Lynda.com hears the cries (silent cries?) of its customers and improves this glaring shortcoming in an otherwise stellar service.
With that criticism behind us, allow me to pull a 180 and tell you why […]

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Several months ago I attended an eLearning development conference, and unsurprisingly, most of the sessions were filled with examples of the type of eLearning I loathe - sterile, unimaginative stuff that hit all the essential “adult learning theories” (ugh) yet exhibited absolutely zero emotional appeal. You know, just like 95% of the eLearning you […]

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