Learning from mistakes

We all learn from our mistakes, it's one of the strongest methods of learning we have. Stick your hand in boiling water and that outcome - the searing pain from your boiled hand - really gets the lesson across: don't do that again. But we barely ever do this in eLearning. It's a massive waste of opportunity. To write... Continue Reading →

Track Adobe Captivate courses without an LMS

I give Adobe a hard time on Craptivate (it is terrible) but I've just found something that doesn't quite suck – a way to report on courses without an LMS. And this comes packaged with Captivate - the 'Adobe Quiz Results Analyser'! It's very easy to set up: put 'internalServerReporting.php' and 'internalserverread.php' from your 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe... Continue Reading →

Get country from IP address with JavaScript

This uses the telize site to get a geolocation of an IP address. It's not 100% accurate but fine for country-level location, which is all I wanted. <script type="application/javascript"> function getgeoip(json){ //document.write("Geolocation information for IP address : ", json.ip); //document.write("Country : ", json.country); //document.write("Latitude : ", json.latitude); //document.write("Longitude : ", json.longitude); //document.write("Country: " + json.country);... Continue Reading →

When to go Next?

I’m an Instructional Designer by trade. I specialise in eLearning. I care about the quality of what I do and what people think of the profession, and I want to help others improve. So here’s my first professional blog post, focussing on the learner experience. Don’t make them think. My first boss said this a... Continue Reading →

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