NogginLabs Blog
Monday, February 23, 2009
Addictive E-learning
A video game has taken over one Noggin's life. And the reasons why can be applied to e-learning learners will actually want to take. Gasp. Read more »
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
E-fense!
The author of a recent article takes a surprisingly outdated stance that e-learning can’t deliver long-term benefits to learners. NogginLabs and its battery of award-winning e-learning courseware respectfully disagree. Read more »
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
NogginLabs is an Edison Best New Product Awards finalist!
We’ve just learned that our Instructional Genome is a finalist for the Edison Best New Product Award in Media and Communications. The Edison Awards, sponsored this year by Google, Nielsen, and Steelcase, recognize marketplace and technological innovation... Read more »
Monday, February 9, 2009
Alienation
Alienation can lead to some inspiring works of literature, art, and music. For e-learning courseware, however, it can be the kiss of death. With that in mind, here are three ways to efficiently alienate an e-learning audience. Read more »
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Here We Come A Yammering
With a MS in Interactive and New Communication Technologies, I have always felt a bit of a kinship with all forms of communication.
And then my company implemented Yammer.
We now Yammer. We are Yammerers. Yammering is an activity that we do as a company. And for some reason I just haven't been able to get my arms around it yet. A neo-Luddite in a sea of Yammerers.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
One Train May Hide Another
One of the things that enables us to develop such a wide variety of e-learning, ranging from behavioral therapy to small business banking, is that we hire a lot of creative writers. Journalists, sketch writers from improv troupes, fiction and non-fiction writers, playwrights, poets, and sitcom contributors have all at some time or another opened up a policy journal and dreamed up a way to make it interesting. I think of this poem, one of my favorites, as each of us had no idea in undergraduate writing classes that we would use our particular talents to work in this way. In many ways, our skills are more “useful” here than they are in their natural habitats.
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