Bill Brandon
Editor, Learning Solutions, The Learning Guild
Bill Brandon is the editor of Learning Solutions. He has designed, managed, and delivered instruction since 1968, and has been an e-Learning practitioner since 1984. Before becoming the editor in 2002, Bill held instructor and management positions in the United States Navy, Texas Utilities, Atmos Energy, TGI Friday’s, and The Sales Consultancy. The co-author of eight books and the author of dozens of articles on technical topics, he has also developed programs for major conferences and owned a consulting business. He is a past president of the Texas Chapter (now the Dallas Chapter) of ISPI, and for 10 years led the Learning Technology SIG of the Dallas Chapter of ASTD. Bill is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and now lives near Dallas, Texas.
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Working With Game Developers: Unity
Is game development with Unity something your organization can do in-house, or do you need the services of an outside developer? Work out your answer here!
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Finding The New Normal”: The Shock of the New”
Read this review of the new book by Chad Udell and Gary Woodill, The Shock of the New, to learn their systematic approach to evaluating new technology.
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Podcasts Revisited: Now You Can Annotate Them or Ask Alexa
New technology has added ways to enhance eLearning via podcasts, including the ability to annotate them and to use voice assistants to play them.
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Finding and Using Free Resources With CC Search
If you need free images or other resources, Creative Commons (CC) is your friend. CC has launched a new search vision that will help you find what you need.
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Moodle Workplace: New Functionality and Features for Moodle
Moodle HQ has launched Moodle Workplace for employee education, onboarding, compliance, and other uses in non-academic organizations.
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Write a Successful Learning Solutions Article Proposal!
The first step to getting published in Learning Solutions is a well-crafted article proposal. Here’s how to write one!
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Unity 3D for eLearning Game Development
This article offers basic information on the game engine Unity and on a tutorial recently released by Unity3D and USC.
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The Shape of Things to Come in eLearning
Growth in eLearning capabilities in the last couple of years point to the things to come in eLearning. Here are some thoughts on personal development.
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Learning Solutions Magazine Is Looking for Writers!
Learning Solutions Magazine intends to step up the pace of its publishing in 2017. To do that, we need more writers, and we hope that could be you! Here is a quick sketch of what we are looking for.
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Leading the Target: Challenges for 2017
Is the time right for another disruption in the status quo for learning and development? Has something already tipped? Maybe the next disruption has already started, but not with technology per se. Change is coming—and it won’t always be what you expect. Here is a forecast for 2017.