Dirtyword - The E-Learning Magazine issue 8 is in production, with the print edition due to be posted out mid-April 2025.
 
Once again, we're giving away free printed issues (just pay the postage).
Available in a limited run of only 200 copies, this is one for the collectors - get your pre-order in now!
 
Featuring:
Never mind the b@llocks 
Lewis Carr rips up the rule book and rocks the punk approach to learning.
 
We’re gonna need a bigger boat
Dr Ace Hulus introduces the JAWS protocol to combat edtech gender bias.
 
Horror Scope
Mark Gash predicts the terrors of an AI world without critical thinking.
 
Clone Wars
Lewis journeys to the dark side of AI
 
Sanity not vanity 
Bongo Learn’s Jennifer Bailey highlights the importance of tying learning to business outcomes.
 
Cyber threats in the classroom
Spencer Starkey from SonicWall, on why education needs enhanced cybersecurity.
 
The skills-based organisation and the luddite in me
Totara’s Matt Linaker asks “As AI rewrites the rules which skills are still worth the ink?”
 
Shooting the breeze 
We review the Insta360 X4 camera.
 
Microlearning vs. Manipulation 
Michael Wright from BuildEmpire talks building better behaviour change training.
 
Caught in the crosshairs 
Mark trades in H5P for 3DVista as his go-to VR authoring tool.
 
In and out of the walled garden
Joseph Thibault tends his e-learning crop like a well-maintained veggie patch.
 
S.E.N. superhero 
We chat with SENsational Tutors’ Joanna Gibbs about educational gaming.
 
Lost in the woods 
Empica’s Natalie Birrell spells out the PR and marketing lifecycle of an online course.
 
Live. Die. Learn. 
Sam Harold reckons we need to play to lose to become better learners.
 
The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad L&D landscape 
Skillpod’s Lee Turner balances values against impact in learning.