In a previous post, we talked about Design Thinking, a process to meet the challenges we face at work by understanding the needs and putting ourselves in the user’s shoes. From my point of view, this type of approach is especially useful when the challenge requires us to be very creative, for example when we meet the challenge of gamifying a process.

If we propose a framework to guide the creative process of gamifying a project, we clearly see …

Design Thinking is a methodology, a way to face challenges, focusing on understanding the real needs of users in order to provide them a solution based on 5 stages:

1. Empathise or take the place of the user to understand their needs.
2. Identify problems and relevant information through interviews.
3. Generate multiple ideas, different approaches.
4. To make a prototype. Bringing ideas to reality with prototypes to help us “to create”, because the only way to learn is creating.
5. Evaluate. Provide

We all now know xAPI today, the first component of ADL’s Training & Learning Architecture but, in my view, it is not a specification for LMS-content communication and, therefore, xAPI does not replace SCORM.

For example, how does content communicate to the LMS (or LRS) that I have completed a course? Actually, it could use “completed” or “finished” but then there is no interoperability, there are no rules that content and LMS have to follow necessarily. We have a …

The amount of time we spend on the Internet is increasing and we now spend more time on the Internet from our mobile devices than from our PCs. So we should make the most of this new scenario in the field of training.

In this new context, 78% of the population owns a mobile device, tablet or smartphone, to receive information, and 43% believes that accessing learning from a mobile device is essential or very useful.

The strategy

Deciding the

Nowadays we obtain lots of knowledge informally online, when watching a TED video, reading a post in a blog, attending a MOOC, etc. All this knowledge acquired informally is not reflected anywhere, and is not part of our résumé, or training record. But this can all change with Mozilla OpenBadges. It is a set of open standards for creating, obtaining and displaying badges from anywhere and everywhere.

There are several considerations when using OpenBadges:

1. It allows to gamify any