Articles by Eric Matas
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Eric Matas is the Creative Director at Mortimer James Media and the Editor of eLearning Weekly Magazine. His work focus is media strategy and elearning. Before entering the corporate training world, Eric taught as Faculty in English for the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities and as a writing instructor at ITT Technical Institute. After his academic career, he worked as an Instructional Designer and eLearning Specialist for several companies including Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Eric and his wife Betsey stay busy raising their 5 children.
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I love to make eLearning, but I don’t like to take eLearning. The eLearning I have to take is usually of a certain, unfortunate type: an epic-length slide deck, both dense and wordy, converted to Flash by a rapid eLearning authoring tool, delivered all in one shot on a Learning Management System (LMS) during a randomly-chosen, mandatory learning month. These courses...Full Article »
Let’s face it: from the chalkboard to Twitter, training has become far more sexy. By integrating social media tools and pushing for other internet technology, the eLearning industry has moved from the side to the center. And nothing seems as perfect a marriage as mobile devices and eLearning. This article will introduce the top trends in the increasingly mobile world of training and...Full Article »
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