Entries Categorized as 'eLearning Hall of Shame'

Lynda.com and Navigational Pain (Or “Please Don’t Punish the Learner”)

Date February 4, 2008

Before I reflect upon today’s eLearning Hall of Shame nominee, let me state for the record that I love Lynda.com. Lynda offers a stellar catalog of narrated screencast-based courses covering a wide variety of software applications (mostly in the graphics design arena). And with a yearly all-you-can-eat subscription, I can easily jump in […]

Screen Beans: You Had Me At Goodbye

Date January 26, 2008

Time for some blunt honesty here.  I promise I’ll be (mostly) polite.
If I see a Screen Bean in an eLearning course, presentation, or website in this, the year 2008, what the designer is clearly telling me, the viewer, is this:
“I got nuthin’.”
Seriously people, let’s move on. Screen Beans were great OK 10 years […]