As a nice complement to my last post on Understanding by Design , comes this piece on Pseudoteaching that Donald Taylor (who runs the excellent UK Learning Technologies conference) pointed out.  First, it’s easy to believe that if you’re preparing, and presenting eloquently, you are communicating.  designPlease.  MORE >>

In The Nurnberg Funnel , he documented how this design led to 25 cards, 1 per learning goal, that beat a 94 page traditionally designed manual hands-down in outcomes. We can just provide support to a SME so that their talk presents the relevant bits  in a streamlined and effective way, and let them loose.   MORE >>

The web-based presentation application SlideRocket has enhanced its tools for interactivity and collaboration. Users can now incorporate interactive elements into their presentations, in addition to traditional graphics. For example, a presentation might include a plugin showing a real-time Twitter stream. What do you think? MORE >>

Importantly, it could easily be argued that several were appropriately instructionally designed, in that they had clear objectives, and presented information and assessment on that information. There’s more to instructional design than stipulating objectives and then knowledge dump with immediate test against those objectives. MORE >>

I’m presented with a long alphabetical list. I’m presented with a long alphabetical list. may be able to access my most frequently contacted people via a ‘Favorites’ tab, but these people are still presented in the same way as the people I’ve lost touch with. We also see this with phone usage. MORE >>