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Animation videos in e-learning courses

Posted on June 4th, 2009 in e-learning by abhisam

It’s sad but true. Many people, even now, have never seen what a real e-learning course looks like. They think that e-learning is just a power point slide show that is shown on a user’s PC. The same dry text and the same dry bullet points. Only instead of a teacher and a whiteboard or blackboard, one has the slide show.

Nothing can be further from the truth, though. A good e-learning course will have plenty of graphics, simulated exercises, animation videos (that make it ultra-easy to understand the concepts) and self assessment tests, that enable you to know exactly if you have understood anything at all. Of course, it will have text but the main factor that produces a “force-multiplier” effect are the animations. Just one look at our courses, even the free ones and you will understand what we mean.  For example, even our RFID training course, the free version has got some very good animations, that help one understand the concept immediately. This is of course not surprising, as “a picture is worth a thousand words”. We extend this old saying to “an animation is worth a thousand pictures”. Hence, rather than going through some dull dry textbook on a subject, why don’t you give our free courses a try.  Our free RFID learning course will enable you to grasp key concepts almsot immediately (and may I add, effortlessly). Come on give it a try. Download it here. Don’t worry-nothing to buy.

See the power of animation for yourself.

Why use eighteenth century technology to learn about twenty first century technology?

The problem with m-learning

Posted on September 26th, 2008 in m-learning by abhisam

For the past two years or so, there was a lot of hype about mobile learning or m-learning; which is seen to be a step forward from e-learning. However, the much vaunted numbers of m-learners are nowhere to be seen. Yes, we had the I-Phone and now we have the G-phone, but have you heard about any great m-learning applications yet?

The reason is not for want of courses, software or products. We had launched our m-learning course on RFID (actually a quiz),  more than a year back, but it is not very popular.  Cost is not an issue, it costs just a dollar.  Compatibility is also not an issue, it can run on a Windows smartphone or a Blackberry or a Palm, equally well.

The real issue seems to be that the small screen size of most smartphones (small compared to the large  monitors on most computers). People are used to viewing things on larger and larger screens by the day and the small screen seems to be the biggest hurdle in getting users to accept m-learning.

If there is a way to project the mobile smartphone screen on another surface (like the way a beamer projects a PC screen on a wall), then there may some interest generated, else the situation may remain the same.

What do you think? Comments are always welcome!