Online Courses

January 12, 2014

6 Secrets Of Online Education Popularity Revealed (2018 Update)

The biggest reason why organizations train online is cost. But are there little-known reasons why employees seem to willingly, even eagerly, go along with the plan? In this article, I shed light on 6 secrets of online education popularity.

by Christopher Pappas

December 8, 2013

How To Handle Broken Links In Online Courses

The availability of excellent, free web-based resources has led millions of instructors to incorporate online content into their online courses. The problem is that these resources are not permanently available. Copyright violations and repository changes often lead to video and other resources links getting broken. What are instructors, faculty and trainers to do?

by Martha Gold

October 16, 2013

Teaching Online Courses At Home Not Realistic In Public Education

If you are a public school teacher forget about the dream of running your classes from home. The cool mornings, hot coffee, and the comforting warmth of a laptop is a thought better served by those college tenured folks.

by Russ Elburn

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

June 18, 2013

5 Tips To Drive Up Learner Engagement Online

Use these 5 online learning strategies to jumpstart your eLearning development.

by Sameer Bhatia

April 5, 2013

How To Assure The Quality Of eLearning

There is so much eLearning now being developed by so many different methods and presented in so many different ways.  It seems that in some cases there is less and less time to produce the learning and in others there is a determination to be first with the latest development or to prove that eLearning really can be cheaper than face to face. Of course in many cases eLearning has become the way to present ‘compliance’ training.  Perhaps it isn’t any wonder that eLearning has gained a certain reputation for drop-out rates and boredom factors.

by Peter Condon

March 24, 2013

Using Data To Ease The Grading Process - An Educator's Perspective

I have become an educator and I am teaching a Spanish MOOC with over 1,000 students! They submit weekly assignments that are to be hand graded, and I alone simply cannot meet the task of grading these assignments. Obviously there is no silver bullet, and no proven technology to automatically grade writing assignments. So, out of necessity, we developed a process to ease our burden as teachers grading assignments.

by Scott Rapp

March 6, 2013

Free Certificate Of Completion Courses In Online Education And eLearning

Are you looking for Free Certificate of Completion Courses in Online Education, and eLearning and Digital Culture from world's leading universities?

by Christopher Pappas

January 4, 2013

New Learning Opportunities Create Self-Directed Learners

What if learning took care of itself in your organization? What if your staff knew what they needed to know, or learn, to do their job successfully? Would you say, great! Go for it. Or would you say, wait a minute not so fast. And then start thinking to yourself; I am (fill in the blank) director of training, or HR, or sales director, and I need to provide you with what I think you need.

by Ruth Kustoff

November 22, 2012

List Of Free Childhood And Youth Online Courses From The Open University

Are you interested in a List of Free Childhood and Youth Online Courses from The Open University?

by Christopher Pappas

November 11, 2012

List Of Free Educational Online Courses From The Open University

Would you be interested to learn about accessibility of eLearning? How to create open educational resources?  What is the relationship of creativity, community and ICT?

by Christopher Pappas