Mark Murrell is a principal consultant with Cranial Expansion, where he designs, develops, and implements custom e-Learning solutions. Prior to Cranial Expansion, Mark was Senior Director, Education Programs at SOLCORP, an EDS company, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s global learning strategy. Before that, Mark was a senior consultant in PwC’s Learning Solutions Group, leading the development of customized authoring systems for their CBT and WBT service lines.

 

Articles by Mark Murrell

Headaches: Making e-Learning Work When Technology Gets in Your Way

(8/8/05)
It would be a wonderful world if everything always went our way, but in e-Learning that seldom happens. There are almost always technical obstacles to work our way around. Here are two examples of projects in which developers had to deal with connectivity issues, file format restrictions, and a “no plug-ins” policy. You’ll learn the surprising ways that exist to deal with these problems and more!

Pop-up Blockers: An e-Learning Perspective

(3/21/05)
As Web advertisers began to use “pop-up” and “pop-under” windows to get the attention of browser users, shareware and anti-virus application writers began to create pop-up blockers to fight the problem. With the advent of Windows XP SP2, pop-up blocking became an impediment to many e-Learning applications. Read this article to learn how to avoid conflicts with these beneficial utilities.