Online Learning

December 8, 2014

Choosing An Online Learning Platform: Which Makes Sense?

The type of online learning system you choose will depend on what you want your online program to "be." That, in turn, depends on a number of factors--what students should know and be able to do, technical considerations and the skills of online instructors. This post examines a few options for choosing an online learning "system."

by Mary Burns

November 29, 2014

7 Tools to Build Up Your School’s Online Potential - Revisited

There are so many great ways to promote your school online these days, yet parents and prospective students alike have limited resources for making informed decisions on this matter. Since the success of a school largely depends on their behavior, learning to tell your story online in order to engage becomes a sine qua non direction. Here are some revisited tools to make the most out of it.

by Alexandra Recasan

November 27, 2014

Online Learning Advantages: Why Online Learning Offers Plenty of Incentives

Chances are, you’ve heard of eLearning and the benefits that it offers. The fact is, online learning allows students to access their learning materials at any of time of the day, from virtually any location. This makes eLearning a flexible alternative to traditional learning styles, including classroom work.

by David Miller

November 22, 2014

10 Tips To Use Online Gradebooks in eLearning

Saying goodbye to old fashioned gradebooks and integrating online gradebooks into your eLearning course strategy can be simple and convenient, especially if you follow these 10 simple but amazingly effective tips that I'll be sharing with you in this article.

by Christopher Pappas

November 21, 2014

Freedom: Writing MOOCs For Income vs Writing Curricula For An Institution

I recently made the leap from higher education to MOOCs. That’s right, I left my cushy full-time role (with a great salary and benefits) as an academic to earn an income creating MOOCs and selling them on Udemy. No one has said I’m crazy to my face, but my former colleagues do send job notifications every now and then.

by Monica Gragg

November 19, 2014

Online Grading to Make Teaching Life Easier

Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning platform, introduces the latest grading tools to meet pedagogical goals. Traditionally, grading has been handled by educators in their own evenings and weekends, hand marking papers to collate and review to track student progress and scoring. E-Learning has not only relieved educators of  this time consuming task, but given them well aimed tools for particular pedagogical scenarios. Moodle is designed and implemented for teachers by teachers, and the recent advancements with the gradebook tool are evidence of that. Grading is easy to do on all devices, with a scrollable grader report optimized for all browsers and screen sizes.

by Samantha Gartner

November 10, 2014

The Bandwidth Schools Have and the Bandwidth They Need

There’s an old saying that you can never be rich enough or thin enough (Since I am spending 4 months in a country where fried plantain is a staple in two of my three daily meals, I'm rather hoping the latter is not true). To these I would add a third axiom—if you are a school, you can never have enough bandwidth.

by Mary Burns

October 27, 2014

10 Strategies To Help Online Learners Complete An Online Program

“Successful” online learners are those students who complete their online course. “Unsuccessful” online learners either drop out of the online course or fail its requirements. As we all know, online learning suffers from much higher drop-out rates than face-to-face learning. And since most attrition occurs at the beginning of a program/course, it is important to frontload this preparation and interventions at the beginning of the course. This article offers 10 strategies online programs can undertake to increase learner retention.

by Mary Burns

October 14, 2014

The 6 Myths of Virtual Learning

In this article, I will present you the 6 myths of virtual learning that we need to move past, if we hope to re-imagine the reality. It's time.

by Houston C Tucker

October 11, 2014

How To Make eLearning Less Awful

Technology has much to offer education and training. But it is only now just starting to fulfill its promise. How can eLearning be better applied and constructed to create great eLearning outcomes? This article explores why the adoption of educational technology in the classroom hasn't been as fast as first assumed, but also why this is changing.

by Andrew Barnes

October 2, 2014

Helping Online Learners Succeed (Part 1)

How can we help online learners successfully complete a course of study? The first of two blog posts by Mary Burns focuses on strategies, the first of which is to figure out who should be an online learner. The next post, will offer strategies for promoting retention in online courses.

by Mary Burns

September 19, 2014

Top 5 Online Learning Skills That Online Instructors Should Have

Online learning programs must pay as much attention to quality of instructors as they do to the technology. This article reminds us some critical online instructor skills.

by Mary Burns