The State of Ren

All learning should be fun. Surely even accounting instruction could be twisted in a way that would make it immensely engaging and interesting?  It’s surely possible, it just needs the right people in the right positions of influence to make it happen.
I remember some of the best learning experiences in high school were game [...]

We take it for granted now, but the level of contribution and collaboration on the Internet, without clear tangible reciprocal benefits for those contributing, is mind-blowing. In a selfish world, the amount of free information, free advice, and free goods (namely software) gives a sense of hope that the human race can indeed band together [...]

How do people search for educational opportunities? I cannot find an easy way to find and compare learning experiences. I hope Totuba can smash that reality.

I don’t believe in cookie-cutter approaches to instructional design, though success-backed methodologies obviously have merit. How to engage learners who are in specific situation and mindset? That is, how to make everyone happy all of the time. For something as important as education, this endeavour should never be consigned to the ‘too difficult’ tray.
Tailored learning? [...]

It has always struck me how badly academic sites and software is designed, from technical, aesthetic and usability perspectives. Most seem to have been designed sufficiently well from a database/data storage perspective, but this often creates a long ‘click stream’ to achieve a goal, which is bad usability design and results in a frustrating user [...]

To learn online or not to learn online, that seems to be the question.
The debate should not be about whether eLearning and emerging web technologies can be used to replace face-to-face teaching. eLearning is a reality today and will only become more mainstream and accepted as time passes. It is likely that there will be [...]