Friday, April 13, 2012

How to Create Your Own Khan Academy for Training - Bill Cushard, MindFlash

An emerging trend in learning and development is creating short, specific tutorials that can be created quickly, posted on an internal website, and distributed to employees — who can use them anytime, anywhere, and used as references when needed. What’s driving that trend? Khan Academy, which has made this form of learning popular (and effective) in public education; and TED videos, which are wildly popular among those looking for short, inspirational bursts of learning. TED is taking it a bit further by offering a new format that’s even shorter than its traditional 18-minute presentations.