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edX: Bill: Improving my career and helping others make better business decisions
We are thrilled to share learner stories from the MITx Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program that show how MicroMasters programs are helping people improve their lives and advance their careers. Today, Bill, a seasoned industry professional and Supply Chain leader at a Fortune 300 manufacturing company, explains how the Supply Chain Management program is helping him stay current in his field and how it is a valuable tool for new professionals entering... Read More about Bill: Improving my career and helping others make better business decisions The post Bill: Improving my career and helping others make better business decisions appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Raise the Bar: Camtasia 9 Tutorials: Three Techniques That Create More Engaging Content by Mark Lassoff
With the release of Camtasia 9, TechSmith is further enhancing the “Swiss Army knife” of eLearning tools. Here are three production techniques that will help you create more engaging eLearning with Camtasia 9.
Learning Solutions Magazine: User Testing for eLearning That Is Usable and Useful by Pamela S. Hogle
User testing can help designers and developers create eLearning that is both useful and usable. Some testers are willing to participate over and over again as a product—or multiple products—are developed. Here are some great ideas to facilitate this key step in eLearning creation!
Learning Solutions Magazine: User Testing for eLearning That Is Usable and Useful by Pamela S. Hogle
User testing can help designers and developers create eLearning that is both useful and usable. Some testers are willing to participate over and over again as a product—or multiple products—are developed. Here are some great ideas to facilitate this key step in eLearning creation!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Raise the Bar: Camtasia 9 Tutorials: Three Techniques That Create More Engaging Content by Mark Lassoff
With the release of Camtasia 9, TechSmith is further enhancing the “Swiss Army knife” of eLearning tools. Here are three production techniques that will help you create more engaging eLearning with Camtasia 9.
Coursera: Learner Story: Founding a Technology Startup
Roy Raanani drew on concepts, skills, and connections from Stanford University’s Machine Learning course on Coursera to found his startup, Chorus.ai. Here’s his story: After our first child was born, my wife took a job opportunity in Switzerland, and I quit my job as a business consultant to move to a remote Swiss village with her and our newborn. The move and my new role as a stay-at-home dad gave me the opportunity to pursue two topics that had always fascinated me - machine learning, and spoken language. Although I’d been an engineering student in college, I’d never worked as an engineer. But Coursera made it easy to sign up for Andrew Ng’s classic Machine Learning course, offered by Stanford University. I watched lectures and worked on assignments from our couch while the baby slept, and I became very active in the course forums - posting questions and ideas, meeting people from around the world. I ended up recruiting two friends to take the course…
edX: edX Welcomes The University of Edinburgh
We are honored to announce that The University of Edinburgh, an institution dedicated to delivering excellence in teaching and learning and consistently ranked as one of the world’s top 50 universities, has joined edX. The University of Edinburgh shares a mission in line with edX’s own, as the institution believes that online learning is an increasingly important method of teaching and is committed to opening... Read More about edX Welcomes The University of Edinburgh The post edX Welcomes The University of Edinburgh appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Personas Place Developer Focus on Learners' Needs by Pamela S. Hogle
Using personas can align designers, developers, and other stakeholders around clearer goals by creating a shared understanding of who will use the eLearning, says Lacey Jennings of Xerox Learning Services. This knowledge helps them create eLearning that is more impactful; it can also streamline development and maintenance. What is a persona and how does it help? Find out in this article!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Personas Place Developer Focus on Learners' Needs by Pamela S. Hogle
Using personas can align designers, developers, and other stakeholders around clearer goals by creating a shared understanding of who will use the eLearning, says Lacey Jennings of Xerox Learning Services. This knowledge helps them create eLearning that is more impactful; it can also streamline development and maintenance. What is a persona and how does it help? Find out in this article!
edX: Top 5 Benefits of a MicroMasters Program: Improve your Life, Advance your Career
Last month we announced the MicroMasters initiative, the next evolution in our mission to increase access to high-quality education and help learners improve their lives and advance their careers. Accelerated and flexible, MicroMasters programs are a first-of-its-kind, credential with a pathway to credit with value to academic institutions and employers. Alongside 14 of our partners, we launched 19 programs – spanning in-demand subject areas from Project Management to Android... Read More about Top 5 Benefits of a MicroMasters Program: Improve your Life, Advance your Career The post Top 5 Benefits of a MicroMasters Program: Improve your Life, Advance your Career appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Accessibility from the Ground Up: Without Glasses, You Couldn't Read This Content by Pamela S. Hogle
Designing for people with impaired vision requires giving learners control over text size, color, and contrast. It also means making navigational elements accessible and ensuring that eLearning is compatible with screen-reading technology.
Learning Solutions Magazine: In Real Life: Sometimes We May Have to Deliver Bad Training, But… by JD Dillon
What can you do when regulatory requirements (or other reasons) force situations that require you to deliver “bad training”? It may seem that there’s no way to make the experience tolerable for your co-workers or other employees, but that doesn’t have to be true! Here are five tips that will definitely help.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Accessibility from the Ground Up: Without Glasses, You Couldn't Read This Content by Pamela S. Hogle
Designing for people with impaired vision requires giving learners control over text size, color, and contrast. It also means making navigational elements accessible and ensuring that eLearning is compatible with screen-reading technology.
Learning Solutions Magazine: In Real Life: Sometimes We May Have to Deliver Bad Training, But… by JD Dillon
What can you do when regulatory requirements (or other reasons) force situations that require you to deliver “bad training”? It may seem that there’s no way to make the experience tolerable for your co-workers or other employees, but that doesn’t have to be true! Here are five tips that will definitely help.
Udemy: Why the Best Leaders Show Their Weaknesses
It’ll help you innovate too. In the foreword to the reprint of Intel cofounder Andy Grove’s High Output Management, investor Ben Horowitz recalls Grove telling him, “CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on lagging indicators of bad news… In order to build anything great, you have to be an [...]…
Udemy: Why the Best Leaders Show Their Weaknesses
It’ll help you innovate too. In the foreword to the reprint of Intel cofounder Andy Grove’s High Output Management, investor Ben Horowitz recalls Grove telling him, “CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on lagging indicators of bad news… In order to build anything great, you have to be an [...]…
edX: edX Welcomes Ural Federal University
We are honored to announce that Ural Federal University (UrFU), one of the largest higher educational institutions in Russia, has joined edX. As an institution striving to bring an innovative approach to the challenges of modern times, Ural Federal University (UrFU) shares edX’s mission to improve teaching and learning on campus and online and to increase access to education for all learners, everywhere. The first... Read More about edX Welcomes Ural Federal University The post edX Welcomes Ural Federal University appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Six Tips to Make Your Visual Design Support Your Content by Crystal Rose
Good visual design complements the text in eLearning materials (and in print materials, too). Here are a half-dozen ways to harmonize the words and the graphics when designing eLearning!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Six Tips to Make Your Visual Design Support Your Content by Crystal Rose
Good visual design complements the text in eLearning materials (and in print materials, too). Here are a half-dozen ways to harmonize the words and the graphics when designing eLearning!
Udemy: October 14, 2016: Friday news roundup
Time for another look back at what we found online this week that piqued our interest and fed our curiosity. How learning and development are becoming more agile The makeup of the modern workforce is changing, from full-time employees to a patchwork of freelancers, contractors, and project-based part-timers. One HR exec says in this article, [...]…