13 Dec 2010

Qwiki as Training Tool

I have been playing around with Qwiki for a few weeks (http://www.qwiki.com/). It is a very interesting search tool that organizes the search results into an informational presentation that plays with a time line and text to voice which reads the content findings back to you. It is basically creating a linear presentation out of the non-linear web.

Each time I use it, I think what an amazing training presentation tool it would make. This could definitely become the front end to a self discovery training tool that linked to a learning management system. Rather than building linear training modules, trainers would just populate large wikis of information. This seems to be the next technological step in learner controlled education/training. I look forward to see how it is used once it comes out of Alpha.