Interview with Roger Schank in Spanish
Roger Schank, eLearn Magazine’s contributing editor and opinion columnist, was interviewed (in Spanish) in El Pais, the major paper of Spain. (Actually, he was interviewed in English and it was translated into Spanish). I read a Google translation. Among other […]
Every e-learning Professional Should See “Up in the Air”
I think “Up in the Air” is George Clooney’s best performance ever. The reviews won’t tell you this, but the movie revolves around a training problem: how do you teach a newly-minted Cornell MBA the difference between theory and practice? […]
Scented Learning
Fascinating Fragrance Fact #1: Women were “rated higher in intelligence and friendliness when they wore scent in a job interview than when they did not, reports the Journal of Applied Psychology”, as reported in Cosmopolitan. Scent matters, no question. But […]
Bogus Schools and Bogus Degrees
It’s surprising there are so many: 1,762 fake institutions worldwide with another 1,545 filed as “suspicious” according to Verifile. The US has the most – 810 – and the UK comes in second with 271. One can only imagine the […]
Debate about Roger Schank’s Prediction for 2010
I was part of an AACE executive board discussion, in which Saul Carliner said, One of my favorites is Roger Schank’s prediction for 2010 in eLearn Magazine: “Bye bye phone,” predicting the demise of mobile learning citing the difficulty of […]