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Educational Technology

September 29, 2013

15 Free Must Have iPad Apps For Elementary Students

In the list below you will find 15 free must-have iPad apps that will help your children or students practice and learn everything covered in school in an elementary level. Colorful games, stories, and other audiovisual material will keep them busy playing and at the same time learning and revising what they have done in the classroom.

by Christopher Pappas

Educational Technology

September 27, 2013

The 5 Best Free Slideshow Presentation and Creation Tools for Teachers

Utilizing technology in the classroom is always an enjoyable experience. However, using the same old programs can get old after a while. Utilize some of the 5 Best Slideshow Presentation and Creation Educational Tools for Teachers in order to spice things up in your classroom’s technological world.

by Christopher Pappas

Learner Engagement

September 26, 2013

How To Engage Your Learners Without Annoying Them

One of the worst things your e-Learning course can do is annoy your learners. But sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference between what’s engaging and what’s annoying. You should certainly do everything possible to make sure your learners have a positive experience—just don’t annoy them.

by Christie Wroten

Educational Technology

September 26, 2013

How To Use Blogs In the Classroom

Blogs may be great educational tools and they give students complete freedom to publish content on the web, but if you don’t know how to effectively implement them into the classroom, they’re only as good as wadded up balls of paper in the trash.

by Christopher Pappas

Custom eLearning

September 25, 2013

The Concept Of Individualized Learning Plans In eLearning

Individualized Learning Plans constitute a user-specific learning program or strategy that resembles a mapped academic plan, reflecting each learner’s unique set of strengths, weaknesses, goals, needs, abilities, preferences, and interests. It constitutes an educational technique, undoubtedly easier to implement in the field of eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Articles

September 24, 2013

8 Easy Steps To Evaluate And Buy New Training Software

Evaluating and Buying training software can be intimidating but it doesn’t have to be! Follow these 8 steps when considering a new training software and you won’t go wrong!

by John Peebles

Educational Technology

September 24, 2013

5 Common Challenges Facing Educators At School Beginning And Tools To Address Them

At the beginning of the school year, for an educator is hard to untangle all the tasks falling under her attribution. Every teacher has to deal with paper work, class activities, new children and many more. That is why having a good educational toolkit with educational apps and educational resources will facilitate these tasks and help to spare time and energy.

by Laura Iancu

Educational Technology

September 22, 2013

The 5 Best Free Tools For Publishing Student Work

If you are a passionate educator, you know your students are bright and it’s likely that you want to show the world.  However, publishing student work is not always as easy as taping an assignment on the wall. How do you go about publishing student work online so that it’s available to the world? Read on to find out the 5 best free educational tools for publishing student work.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

September 20, 2013

Designing Real-Time Learning Using a Performance Support Platform

Today's Performance Support Platforms put aside the technical issues associated with performance support and recreate the need to consider basic instructional design methods when admitting real time learning. 

by Eran Gal

eLearning Trends

September 19, 2013

5 Key Trends in Mobile Learning

Learners today depend on the latest technology—like smartphones and tablets—to help them fit online training into their busy lives. Statistics show that we check our smartphones an average of 150 times per day; it makes sense that we would want to have access to e-Learning content on our phones. 

by Christie Wroten

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

September 19, 2013

28 eLearning Tips for Social Learning

At the following article you will find 10 Tips To Effectively Use Social Media In Formal Learning, 10 Tips On How To Use Facebook For Effective Social Learning, and 8 Tips On How To Use Twitter For Social Learning. Enjoy!

by Christopher Pappas

Blended Learning

September 18, 2013

The Flipped Classroom Guide for Teachers

At the Teacher's Guide to Flipped Classroom you will be able to answer what is a flipped classroom, how does a flipped classroom contribute to student learning, the top benefits and disadvantages of a flipped classroom, and last but not least, how to successfully Flip your classroom.

by Christopher Pappas