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Educational Technology

July 18, 2013

Virtual Education: New Face Of Schooling

Would you like to know why virtual education is a great beginning in the world of education?

by Sanjukta Mukherji

Corporate eLearning

July 18, 2013

Create eLearning Content Your Employees Care About

Make no mistake about it, content is king when it comes to creating a great eLearning experience for your employees. See what guidelines your eLearning content must follow to resonate more with your audience.

by Kyle O'Brien

eLearning Design and Development

July 17, 2013

5 Steps To Create And Deploy A Successful e-Learning Course

Before you begin to develop your next e-Learning course, it’s important to first define the goals and purpose of the course. Are you looking to create a simple, user-friendly course or a more advanced course involving branching and scenarios? Take a look at your audience, skill set and authoring tool and outline your plan before you begin the e-Learning development process.

by Kristen Marshall

Mobile Learning

July 17, 2013

BYOD: The Mobile Shift Of The Business World

Bring your Own Device (BYOD) also known as Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT), Bring Your Own Phone (BYOP), and Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC), has created a lot of buzz in the business and technology worlds over the past year. The concept is that companies can save money by allowing their employees to use their own devices to access the tools they need to do their jobs.

by Matt Hart

Educational Technology

July 17, 2013

yourClass Launches Marketplace For Live Online Classes

yourClass is a marketplace for live education that empowers teachers, not institutions and beta invites will be going out in early Fall 2013. yourClass is backed by a passionate, multifunctional team that believes a quality education must come above all. yourClass is taking an innovative approach by offering a synchronous virtual classroom in a sea of asynchronous e-learning options.

by Christopher Pappas

Educational Technology

July 15, 2013

The 8 Best Free Video Tools For Teachers

Screen casting is a very helpful technique in eLearning. It can be used by teachers or instructors who want to create video tutorials or presentations. This is why I created a list of the best free video tools for teachers.

by Christopher Pappas

Online Courses (MOOC)

July 13, 2013

University of Washington instructor dives into MOOC spotlight

“I don’t see the MOOC that I teach as a threat to traditional universities or to the discipline, rather just the opposite. It’s the sort of thing a public university should be doing: broadcasting its knowledge.” – Dr. Matt McGarrity

by Andrew Winner

Corporate eLearning

July 12, 2013

Brand-Led Learning

Your brand embodies the personality of your organization and your products or services.  This personality creates thoughts, feelings, perceptions, beliefs and attitudes.  What’s this have to do with learning?  If learning isn’t aligned with you brand and culture, the chances of it being successful are greatly reduced.  Take these steps to get aligned with your brand and improve results and outcomes.

by Cammy Bean

Educational Technology

July 11, 2013

15 Free iPad Apps For Teaching Algebra

Numbers can be tricky especially when the alphabet is involved! Problems, equations, formulas may seem complicated for a student to understand and challenging for a parent or teacher to explain. In the following list you will find 15 Free Algebra Applications for iPad and iPhone, perfect for teaching and practicing, for home or school use.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

July 11, 2013

Is DITA The Answer For Learning & Training?

You can author, manage, and deliver your Learning & Training content in multiple languages and formats on smartphones, tablets, e-books with DITA XML and a good Component Content Management System (CCMS). The cost savings downstream can be substantial, but there is work to be done upfront. How do you know whether your organization is a good fit for a structured content L&T solution?

by Stephen Page Morse

Learning Management Systems

July 11, 2013

Docebo’s Free Google Apps Courses Enable Companies To Easily Adopt This Cloud-Based Productivity Suite

A library of free courses about how to use Google Documents, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drive, plus Gmail and Calendar, is now available for Docebo’s Learning Management System customers.

by Jacopo Mauri

Learning Management Systems

July 11, 2013

Analyzing A LMS For A Device-Agnostic Content Strategy

In this post, I will analyze the key features that LMSs should display in order to facilitate a device-agnostic content strategy that can respond to today´s learning environments. By considering as an example a platform that is based on a mobile-first way of thinking, Instancy´s Mobile Learning App Platform, I will highlight which are the capabilities we need to take into account to successfully adapt to learners´ current needs.

by Mayra Aixa Villar