Mobile learning is something your organisation could greatly benefit from if done correct. As the use of mobile phones, laptops and portable devices increases this can be used to deliver digital learning in ways that were not previously possible. It is important when designing your next eLearning course to consider how it will function not only on laptops but also mobile and portable devices. Below are some mobile learning trends to consider so that your organisation does not

More often than not, I have been tasked to convert eLearning modules to newer versions of different authoring tools. In fact, if you have repeat clients (like in our case at Pathways), you may find yourself in this situation very often, in which clients ask you to update modules to newer versions of the eLearning software in order to gain the functionality of the new software. But what happens when, for some reason, you must downgrade an eLearning module to an older version o

Lately, it’s becoming a trend in my job, that interactions designed for eLearning modules are becoming more and more challenging each day, especially, since it was announced that browsers will stop supporting Flash altogether, which means that all those cool interactions or animations, that were originally developed in Flash, will have to be developed either directly in Storyline or in HTML5. I admit that jumping into HTML5 development can be even more challenging an time con

Virtual Reality (VR) is something that has been around for a long time but has only started to gain real momentum over the past few years. The concept of VR is to immerse the user in an interactive computer generated virtual world, this is displayed through a VR headset that covers the users vision, other sensors and controls may also be used in addition to this. Several industries have looked into utilising VR with the eLearning industry being one of them. Not only could VR

Can you modify core data in a Moodle Learning Management System (LSM) is it safe? The correct answer is ‘No’. It’s not safe because you may end up breaking your Moodle LMS installation, since, as you may or may not know, Moodle pulls all its data from different tables in the data base. Also, from a developer perspective, it is not ideal to modify core data from the Moodle installation, since the chances of corrupting it are very high and every time there is an update, we may