No hope and no hype: fear, loathing and learned helplessness at LT2014

By suzanneo. John Helmer reports from this January’s Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference at Olympia.
The bull market in e-learning has been running for so long that we now take it for granted each year’s Learning Technologies Exhibition will be bigger, better and more hideously overcrowded than the last. And so it was this year. There were differences enough this year to make it worth blogging about, but also worrying signs, particularly upstairs in the conference, that a few people’s styluses are getting too firmly stuck in the groove. More...