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Articulate Frontline lets anyone make training. Making training was never the job.
Articulate’s new Frontline and its Nova agent let sales, support, and SMEs generate training kits in minutes. The engineering is real — but the premise that building the course was the hard part is not, and the framing is bad for the field.
Stop mistaking procurement for L&D strategy.
Episode 01 of our new weekly show. Leadership programs die on Monday, a bigger platform can’t close a skills gap, and the LMS-vs-LXP debate was never about the box — the 22-minute conversation, LumID visuals over the audio.
SCORM vs xAPI is the wrong question.
SCORM, xAPI, and cmi5 without the vendor spin. For most learning teams the standard is not the real constraint — the question they have not asked yet is, and richer data nobody analyzes is just a bigger pile.
Articulate shipped an AI tutor. That should not decide your authoring tool.
Articulate’s 2026 releases are strong — an AI tutor, adaptive pre-tests, AI-drafted content. A consultative look at what the features mean, and what should really decide your authoring tool or development partner.
AI made course production faster. That was never the hard part.
AI can generate a course in an afternoon — but producing the course was never the slow part of L&D. The bottleneck was deciding which courses were worth building, and cheap generation quietly makes that harder.
Your Flash courses are not a conversion problem.
Anything still described as a Flash course has been unplayable since 2020. Four things go missing in a legacy library, they cost very different amounts to recover, and the cheapest work is deciding what not to rebuild at all.
What SCORM completion actually measures.
The LMS handshake most authoring tools obscure, what “completion” really tells your business, and why the green checkmark on your dashboard is the least useful metric in your learning stack.
Training isn’t content. It’s a contract.
Why most corporate L&D dies on contact with reality — and what changes when you stop building modules and start designing agreements between the learner, the operator, and the business.
From shelfware to field-ready: rebuilding a technician training program.
What happens when you throw out the LMS playbook and design for the technician on the side of the road instead. A case study in immersive simulation as the unit of training.
The death of the compliance click-through.
On why nobody reads the safety module and what to build instead. Hint: the answer isn’t gamification.
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