In developing an effective learning-oriented online course, there are two concepts to consider: Individualized and Humanized Learning. Make learning a passive effect to keep people from educating themselves further.
Here are the basics: after school, a student tweeted information about a test administered earlier that day. An automated Web monitoring system discovered the tweet, and the school was notified. The student later deleted the offending tweet. So...exams and social media: is it really spying? Thought leader Steve Lay shares his thoughts in this post.
I had the pleasure of talking to one of my favorite people in EdTech recently. Richard Culatta is the Director of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and without question one of the most positive people I know. When I first met Richard he was working as the Director of Training for the …
What people in Quora thinks of the best competitor for the eLearning Marketplace Site of Lynda.com. See what people think of other eLearning providers and might help you in your search for an alternative to Lynda.
D you want to make the most out of your Online Courses? Listen to feedback from you students and collegues. Collect these data from your online course itself by integrating questions, surveys, and other forms of feedback mechanisms. Learn how to do this with this blog post from 360training.com
I guess technology is moving more quickly than I thought. So quickly, in fact, that vertical video has already jumped the shark. Okay, maybe not yet. But it's further along in the main stream than I thought. Vertical video is already being embraced by mobile journalists. News departments and digital content producers have even defined …
I'm continuing to uncover insights from Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report 2015. I posted my initial thoughts this past Tuesday in a post. This is a followup to that post. I've had a few conversations via twitter, and other social media, regarding the future of training based on Mary's data. Some of those conversations are …
In unstable economic times nearly all businesses require some sort of training to keep their employees working at the best of their abilities. Staying in-house, studies have shown in-person training to be a very proficient learning method for employees, however such training requires time, personnel, and materials, which all increase an organizations costs. Finding a method that yields the greatest ROI should be the goal of any successful business model.