The People 1st State of the Nation report released earlier this year provided some pointed insights into training needs in the hospitality sector in advance of the 2012 Olympics. Hotel, restaurant and bar staff numbers have dropped by 30% in the last year - leaving the remaining staff to take on more work. In addition to [...]

I’m currently teaching an online graduate course in Digital Game Based Learning. It has included some great discussions about all kinds of things. Erin Lerouge (one of the class members) wrote a few comments on Seymore Paperts classic article, "Papert, … Continue reading →

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Our client, CA Technologies, needed to ensure the rapid and accurate adoption of new and modified internal business procedures in their upgrade of SAP. In an effort to radically remake their processes into more efficient and effective standards, they instituted a customized version of SAP covering their worldwide operations. Each SAP upgrade involves ten thousand [...]

What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think | Computing Education Blog. Be explicit. Not that I’m at all surprised, but …. cool.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sydney, Australia - 3 August 2010 PulseLearning expands its global reach with APAC offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Established in 1999, PulseLearning has its global headquarters in Ireland and offices in Canada, the UK, the USA and now Australia. Our new offices in Sydney and Melbourne include learning specialists, multimedia developers, quality [...]

http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/dereliction-of-duty-by-hs-teachers/ Dereliction of duty by HS teachers From a recent Ed Week article: A survey by ACT finds that 89 percent of high school teachers report their students are "well" or "very well" prepared for college-level work in the subject … Continue reading →

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Orlando, Florida) August 3, 2010. PulseLearning’s Dr. Irene Boland will be presenting at the world’s largest annual Defense industry event - the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). In November of each year, approximately 19,000 industry professionals from more than 60 nations gather in Orlando, Florida, USA to share best practices [...]

Well Said.http://climbing-the-hill.blogspot.ca/2013/04/a-letter-to-concerned-mother.html climbing the hill: A Letter To A Concerned Mother Recently a friend related me a request for some advice for her son’s career through a rather circuitous route. It started with admiration for my career, and appeared to … Continue reading →

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Well Said.http://climbing-the-hill.blogspot.ca/2013/04/a-letter-to-concerned-mother.html climbing the hill: A Letter To A Concerned Mother Recently a friend related me a request for some advice for her son’s career through a rather circuitous route. It started with admiration for my career, and appeared to … Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Dorset, United Kingdom) 30 August 2010. Lifeways selected PulseLearning’s PulseCare solution because of PulseLearning’s expertise in the design, development and delivery of high-quality care-specific training and assessment. Lifeways, known for its innovative and holistic approach to care, has partnered with leading care eLearning provider PulseLearning to create a comprehensive induction assessment. Lifeways [...]

This spring brings on my 5 year anniversary of entering […]

Is it possible to be really good at: music composition if you can’t play an instrument (or sing)? writing if you don’t read? game design if you don’t play games? instructional design if you’ve never taught? What about this one: … Continue reading →

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Our HR department is looking for a Lead Instructional Designer with the following skills: - Multimedia development experience (Camtasia, Articulate or similar) - Sales training development experience (Salesforce, other types of CRM programs) - Experience developing training for applications (such as time keeping programs, project management programs)… More

iPads in school: a toy or a tool? - latimes.com. While I have no doubt that some teachers in some schools are doing amazing things with technology, it bears repeating that it always has far more to do with the skills … Continue reading →

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A team from PulseLearning will be attending this years ANCC National Magnet Conference taking place on October 4-6, 2011 in Baltimore. At the conference, we will be revealing our new PulseHealth "Information Training" solution for the US Healthcare market. The team is happy to discuss this new solution with you one to one. Please contact us [...]

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PulseLearning will be at DSEi 2011 (Defence & Security Equipment International) September 13th through 16th in London. We’ll be demonstrating our new ground-breaking PulseDefense solution. Our PulseDefense solution delivers Maintenance and Operator training, including immersive, simulated 3-D learning solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to competency. If you would like to meet with PulseLearning [...]