Content Management

If you work in a medium-to-large organisation, you’ve probably come across tactical, online learning Solution designed to meet a specific need at a specific moment in time.

Content and your LMS

I’m afraid far too many people in Learning & Development believe that their LMS needs to be filled with content to be successful.

Writing for the web checklist

A quick check to see if your materials will work for your audience

Quality assuring your learning materials

What to look for when quality assuring your learning materials

Securing Wordpress

As one of the most popular web content management systems, Wordpress is also one of the most vulnerable to attack. Find out three ways to help keep your site secure.

Making content better

The processes I use in creating content have as much potential to trip me up as the content itself!

Using H5P packages within your own website

This short explainer video describes how H5P content packages can be used within your own website, either by embedding, or by importing into your own H5P-enabled content management system.

Creating rich, portable learning experiences without SCORM

I discuss H5P, a new alternative to SCORM packaged HTML5 content which allows content to be created, edited and displayed in any H5P-enabled content management system, and then embedded just like a Youtube video.

Lean Learning Masterclass video highlights

Wyver Solutions invited Sean Buckland from Design for Service to run a masterclass looking at "lean" principles in the learning context. This short video picks out some of the highlights of the day, particularly focussing on the key points that Sean raised.

Realising commercial benefits from open content

It is so easy for anyone to create, distribute and copy digital content that it brings into question a business model which is based on selling such content. In this post I explore an approach based on giving away generic, digital content and selling specific services.

Elearning and version control

Using a version control system, like Git, can help ensure you release the right version of materials to your client, and minimise confusion. I provide a brief introduction to Git, and pointers for where to go for good advice.

Is an LMS the answer to your content delivery problem?

I discuss the business case for implementing a content &document management system to replace a creaking shared folder.

Curation

For many of the things I train on, rather than building all the content ourselves, could I instead take publicly available content, structured it into a coherent programme and then provide my own organisationally-contextual narrative around the content? Craig Taylor explores the question.