Excel Everest

Recently I got an email from ‘Sean, a fellow learning theory/tool fiend… I’m also a first year student at Harvard Medical School but I just launched my own tech-heavy learning project on the side. It’s called Excel Everest (http://www.ExcelEverest.com), and it’s a fully interactive "book" about Microsoft Excel, but written in an Excel file. It has 41 topics, 155 exercises, 339 buttons, and 87 embedded videos.’

There’s a great introductory video on YouTube.

Well I tried it and it’s a wonderful resource. Learning Excel within Excel is a great idea that works; you get to try out all sorts of fancy formulae and formatting right inside the tool – not by simulation but for real. Not only that, it’s written in clear, friendly English with a heavy dose of humour. And did I mention that it’s also challenging? Not patronisingly easy like so much IT training.

This would get my vote for a e-learning design award. If you’re an IT trainer, get this and sit back while it does the job for you.

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