Our quarterly newsletter, Live and Learn, contains useful articles related to workplace learning and performance. Many are written by eP staff members, but occasionally we publish submissions from clients and colleagues. Our target audience includes training professionals who are responsible for managing, designing, or developing training programs and courses.

Check out an issue of Live and Learn:

   
272k Features: Real Learning in Virtual worlds; Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That; News from our sister company; Coaching for Performance course ready!
239k Features: A look back at 2008; a preview of 2009; news from our sister company; and Designing for expandability.
448k Features: Training in a Bottle: New eP Affiliate Open for Business. Goind Mobile: eP's New M-Learning Demo. Design Tip: What Makes an Exercise Interactive?
  Issue cancelled [the team was swamped, sorry]
446k Features: Learning Management Systems: Tips from the Masie Conference. Designer's Toolbox: Building e-Learning Courses for Easy Installation. Design Tip: Keeping SMEs Focused and Engaged. Tale from the Trenches: Interactive Flowcharts--in a Flash!
540k Features: Rapid e-Learning. Designer's Toolbox: From English to Global English. Design Tip: Minimalist Design.
554k Features: Online Games. Designer's Toolbox: Success Case Method. Tale from the Trenches : Teaching Data Driven Decision Making. Design Tip: Andragogy.
  Issue cancelled [the team was swamped, sorry]
627k Features: Mobile Learning. Inside: Managing the Unmanageable SME and New CLIP on Educational Simulations. Design Tip: Fluency.
634k Features: Gus presents at DVHRP Summit. Inside: Rapid simulations and the new eP web site. Design Tip: Cognitive Load.
2006, Fall Edition (V3, N4)
364k

Feature: Rapid e-learning.  Tools Rule: Developing databases. Best Practices Alert: Project update reporting.  Design Tip: Storytelling.

2006, Summer Edition (V3, N3)
240k Feature: Implications of seeing learning as a progression.  Designer’s Toolbox: In the trenches with Alicia as she applies the task analysis theories and models.  Design Tip: Cognitive flexibility.
2006, Spring Edition (V3, N2)
424k

Feature: Preview of our Five Approaches to Blended Learning white paper.  Designer’s Toolbox: Critical Incident method of task analysis.  Design Tip: The Gestalt.

2006, Winter Edition (V3, N1)
596k

Feature: Training the Training Manager—EP’s new demo e-learning course. Designer’s Toolbox: Activity theory of task analysis. Best Practices in Action: Video and live workshops. Doc Talk: Contextualizing content.  Design Tip: Anchored instruction.

2005, Fall Edition (V2, N4)
300k Feature: Presenting data visually—reflections on a Tufte seminar. Designer’s Toolbox: The Michalak and Yager task analysis method.  Tales from the Trenches: It’s all about context—Grasshopper. Doc Talk: Announcing our demo e-learning course.  Design Tip: Web quest.
2005, Summer Edition (V2, N3)
172k

Feature: A look at Penn State’s instructional design competition. Doc Talk: Is competition the American Way of learning?  Inside: Case study—why less is sometimes more.

2005, Spring Edition (V2, N2)
124k

Feature: Tips for writing an e-learning RFP.  Inside: Facilitating SME-designer interaction.  Design Tip: Authentic storytelling.

2005, Winter Edition (V2, N1)
164k

Feature: Audio narration in e-learning.  Doc Talk: Training lessons from a newborn.  Inside: Simulations as assessments.  Design Tip: ARCS Model.

2004, Fall Edition (V1, N4)
512k

Feature: A look at the things the brain can tell us about learning. Doc Talk: Training needs assessments versus the “shotgun” approach. Inside: A case study of how a little analysis saved big bucks. Design Tip: Semantic mapping.

2004, Summer Edition (V1, N3)
332k Feature: Blended learning.  Doc Talk: Social styles.  Inside: Blogs, the next big thing! Design Tip: Gagne’s 9 Events.
2004, Spring Edition (V1, N2)
732k Feature: A look at performance-based instructional design as a mix of HPT and ISD.  Doc Talk: Automated essay scoring. Design Tip: Concept mapping.
2004, Winter Edition (V1, N1)
384k

Feature: A look at the history of instructional systems design. Doc Talk: What is performance-based instructional design? Design Tip: Goal-based scenarios.