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Four eLearning Trends We Won’t See in 2020

It is January 2020, the start of a new decade, characterized by a proliferation of articles predicting trends that will dominate the learning industry. These articles always seem to put pressure on me to quickly learn new skills before my skillset becomes obsolete. Only one article predicted that HTML5 would […]

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Will AI Make You Smarter?

This week’s post is inspired by a 2018 movie called Upgrade. Without giving too much of the movie away, an AI chip is implanted into a paralyzed man to enable him to walk again. Sounds good right? It turns out that this chip can do a lot more than just […]


Learning Styles – Fact or Fiction?

I remember when the topic of learning styles was all the rage. Now I am hearing that the theory of learning styles has been pretty much debunked. Where do you stand? Are learning styles more fact or fiction? One reason why this may be difficult to answer is that the […]

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The Benefits of Learner Choice

The core principle behind Learner Intelligence (LI) is that “learners, given the option, will always choose the way he or she learns best.” The more choices a learner has, the more personalized the learning experience will be. Which is why the LI Adaptive Design model calls for a personalization menu […]


Adaptive Learning versus Personalized Learning

With the recent forays of artificial Intelligence (AI) in education there seems to be some confusion with how the terms adaptive and personalization are used. I am increasingly seeing the term adaptive learning used, but is the learning process really adapting, and if so, to what is it adapting? Even […]

Adaptive Learning versus Personalized Learning