There’s nothing more fascinating for an e-learning course designer than watching users interact with the courses online. From where they click, their mouse movements, scrolling and so on, you can tell you a lot about what is good and what is bad about the course and the user interface surrounding it.
The problem for e-learning, of [...]

The average web application has a torturous UI that kills goats at fifteen paces. For some more complex activity, such as laying out graphics, it just doesn’t work as well as, say, as your average well-designed desktop-based application from 1996. It can’t do obvious things: such as access you web cam or allow you to [...]

In the 80s, when most people didn’t even know what email was, the closest thing most nerds came to the internet was through things called BBSs. Esoteric text-based systems such as Wildcat were called up by people using their phones and 300 baud modems. Strange, beardy characters who gave themselves names such as Plembo and [...]

 Antoine Augustin Cournot may have been the first to plot it on a graph and get people who like equations with lots of jumbled numbers and letters in them excited. Good ol’ Alfred Marshall came along later and truly popularised the notion. But older geniuses such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo implicitly recognised it [...]