A few months ago our team found ourselves in a pickle trying to develop high-fidelity courses in Lectora with a tight budget and a quick turnaround – a story I’m sure many of you can relate to. Perhaps this story will help your team develop better high quality courses with more efficiency. How do you create a skill-based course efficiently and effectively?  Our team was working on a series of courses that were skill-based and required a lot of steps, sub-steps, and images – a storyboarding and development nightmare! Not only was the learning problem difficult, but this was a low-budget,...

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You know, of course, that there's "good cholesterol" (HDL) and "bad cholesterol" (LDL).  It's likely that you also know that there are "good fats" (e.g., unsaturated, mono- and polyunsaturated) and "bad fats" (e.g., saturated and trans).  You might even know how cholesterol and fats are related.  [One way is that polyunsaturated fats can sometimes help lower cholesterol levels, whereas bad fats tend to raise them.] If you know that more than moderate intake of bad fats (usually resulting in elevated levels of bad cholesterol) increases the possibility of a heart attack, you get a star. ...

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Over the course of his professional lifetime, the B&B Blogger has had occasion to observe and evaluate (and sometimes coach) perhaps as many as 200 trainers or teachers .  Often an evaluation of the programs themselves was involved.  While his focus was never on the trainees per se, the Blogger certainly had ample opportunity to draw the following conclusions about them: Trainees often seem to derive substantial gratification from the opportunity to "share" their opinions with others - even when those opinions are:  1) virtual repetitions of opinions that other trainees had shared only...

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Do commercially available brain games make you smarter?  If you think so, you'd probably believe the B&B Blogger if he told you that he's 6' 4," totally ripped and often mistaken for Brad Pitt. Actually, the hard evidence seems to indicate that playing brain games at least makes you "better."   At playing those particular brain games.  Same thing as with playing video games. That's not to slam video gamers.  For some years, the Army has been actively recruiting master-level, shooting-and-killing-game experts.  Their peripheral vision has been shown to be improved as a result of play...

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A previous B&B Blog entry dealt with glucose and overall performance effectiveness at work.  The entry you're reading now narrows the focus to the relationship between glucose/glucose depletion and decision making while expanding the scope of concern to our society as a whole. Let's start by featuring that tomorrow just isn't any old day.  It's the day you appear before your Parole Board!  And, you get to decide:  Do you want your case to be heard first or last? Now, if you choose "last," you and your attorney might be able to get a feel for the board's quirks and what kinds or arguments...

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