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Saylor.org: Making Education Affordable: A New Vision for Community College, using OER and Competency-Based Education
Interview with John Milam, Executive Director, Knowledge To Work/ HigherEd.org John Milam and his team at the Knowledge to Work (K2W) initiative of Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) have created a new education tool for self-directed learners. Leveraging the flexibility of Competency-Based Education (CBE) and Open Educational Resources (including Saylor Academy resources), HigherEd.org partners with ... Read More ...
Learning Solutions Magazine: Buzzword Decoder: Virtual Classroom by Pamela S. Hogle
Converting in-person instruction to virtual eLearning can save travel costs and make it feasible to offer the training to many more learners, particularly in companies with multiple sites or a mobile or remote workforce. It’s possible to combine elements of synchronous training with elements of asynchronous eLearning, creating a “flipped classroom” model.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Marc My Words: A Holiday Song for December (with Slightly Sarcastic Commentary) by Marc Rosenberg
If it’s December, you know you’re going to be hearing this song, and you know you won’t remember all the words. Here’s a memory aid to help you!
Learning Solutions Magazine: How a Modern Approach to Learning Invigorated Training at MCAP and Boosted Customer Service by Shelly Woodley
If goal statements for learning and development programs are to be more than aspirational, it takes a systematic approach that makes use of what we know about learning and performance to meet those goals and to generate results. This is the story of how a mortgage financing company used gamification and adaptive learning to improve its already exceptional training programs.
edX: Improving Classrooms, Schools, and Educational Systems: Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters
This is a guest blog posts from Donald Peurach, Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation in the School of Education, University of Michigan and James DeVaney, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan. The moment is ripe for renewal and reinvention in public education, in the United States and around the world. Social, economic, and political dynamics are creating needs and opportunities... Read More about Improving Classrooms, Schools, and Educational Systems: Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters The post Improving Classrooms, Schools, and Educational Systems: Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters appeared first on edX Blog.
Khan Academy: Congratulations to the Winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Congratulations to Deanna See, 17, and Antonella Masini, 18, winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge. Deanna and Antonella submitted short videos about big ideas to win the international science and math competition. We love their videos and hope you do too!Superbugs! And our race against resistanceDeanna See, 17, SingaporeQuantum EntanglementAntonella Masini, 18, PeruThe Breakthrough Prize honored Deanna and Antonella Sunday at a gala ceremony in Silicon Valley. Each student receives a $250,000 post-secondary scholarship. The science teachers who inspired the winning students receive $50,000. The winners’ schools receive a state-of-the-art science lab valued at $100,000.The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is an annual global competition for students to inspire creative thinking about science and mathematics. Students ages 13 to 18 from countries across the globe are invited to create and submit original videos (five minutes in length maximum) that bring to life a concept…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Build People, Not (Only) Processes by Pamela S. Hogle
Using eLearning to develop employees’ potential beyond day-to-day job skills is a great way to position a company for future success.
edX: Javier: Widening my Perspective on Google’s Supply Chain
We are excited to continue to share learner stories from the MITx Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program that demonstrate how MicroMasters programs are helping people improve their lives and advance their careers. Today, Javier, a learner from Seattle, Washington, explains how the Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program has helped him gain a new and renewed perspective on his work as a member of Google’s Supply Chain... Read More about Javier: Widening my Perspective on Google’s Supply Chain The post Javier: Widening my Perspective on Google’s Supply Chain appeared first on edX Blog.
edX: Javier: Widening My Perspective on Google’s Supply Chain
We are excited to continue to share learner stories from the MITx Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program that demonstrate how MicroMasters programs are helping people improve their lives and advance their careers. Today, Javier, a learner from Seattle, Washington, explains how the Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program has helped him gain a new and renewed perspective on his work as a member of Google’s Supply Chain... Read More about Javier: Widening My Perspective on Google’s Supply Chain The post Javier: Widening My Perspective on Google’s Supply Chain appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Why Your Learners' Agility Is More Important Than Your Own by Noel Wurst
The agile manifesto, compiled more than 15 years ago, is hardly out of date today in its principles or core tenets. But there is another side to agility—the agility of your learners and customers. Here are some insights that may lead you not only to adopting agile development in eLearning, but also to reframing whose agility should be your focus.
Coursera: Learner story: Saving a struggling business
The Wharton School’s Introduction to Operations Management course helped Australian learner Tri Suseno save his struggling business - and he’s since completed more than 20 other courses on Coursera. Here’s his story:I am a businessman, and I own a few businesses. When a business I’d acquired encountered significant bottleneck issues, I was desperate to understand the source of the problem and the steps I needed to take to correct it. I’d read several popular, highly-recommended books, but they didn’t provide the insight our management team needed.Around that time, I discovered Coursera, and I decided to enroll in a course on Operations Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. That course opened my eyes to the underlying problems in my business, and provided a framework to identify and address bottlenecks quickly. I worked through the course twice, and asked a few people on my management team to join me. We were ultimately…
Saylor.org: Saylor Academy & Kiron Open Higher Education Partner to Provide Higher Education to Refugees
Less than 1% of refugees globally have access to higher education. Kiron & Saylor Academy have joined forces to increase that number and will work together to provide thousands of refugees worldwide with the opportunity to graduate with an accredited university degree, free of charge. Under the partnership, Kiron will direct students to Saylor’s tuition-free ... Read More ...
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: Music as a Design Element by Jane Bozarth
The film and game industries have known it forever: Music is a critical part of user experience, creating atmosphere, supporting memory, and cueing emotion. As a designer of learning experiences, are you using music as a strategic design element? Here are some ideas for adding it to your toolbox.
Learning Solutions Magazine: eLearning Tools Keep Remote Employees Connected by Pamela S. Hogle
Tools and strategies that make eLearning engaging, when applied creatively, can keep remote employees engaged as well. Here are six tips for creating an office culture in which remote employees feel included.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Understanding Organizational Knowledge-web Technologies by Dennis L. Thomas
Just as the Internet is a repository for the world’s data and information, delivered via search engines, websites, and wikis, organizational knowledge-web technologies are designed to capture, manage, and deliver organizational knowledge. Users rapidly gain insight and understanding down into an organization’s how, why, and what-if microlearning tasks. Here’s an overview of how this works.
edX: Celebrate #CSEdWeek with an Hour of Code and Facebook Live Event
Did you know that this week is #CSEdWeek? Start your #HourofCode with a collection of high-quality, free edX computer science courses. Computer science drives innovation throughout the economy and whether or not you become a computer scientist, computational thinking is a powerful tool for jobs in social sciences, economics, finance, and understanding the world at large. Currently, there are 517,393 open computing jobs nationwide. With... Read More about Celebrate #CSEdWeek with an Hour of Code and Facebook Live Event The post Celebrate #CSEdWeek with an Hour of Code and Facebook Live Event appeared first on edX Blog.
edX: u.lab MOOCs: Inspiring Change Around the World
This post originally ran on MIT’s Office of Digital Learning (ODL) blog. u.lab is a series of edX courses that strengthen the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions and systems to respond to the increasing flow of disruptive challenges we face across all social systems and societies today. We do this through a highly experiential pedagogy in which participants identify an issue or challenge that matters... Read More about u.lab MOOCs: Inspiring Change Around the World The post u.lab MOOCs: Inspiring Change Around the World appeared first on edX Blog.
Coursera: Learner Story: A young designer succeeds with Coursera
Astghik Zeynalyan, a student in Armenia, wanted to get a head start on a career in graphic design so she could contribute to her family’s income. With help from Coursera, she built the skills she needed to rebrand her father’s dental clinic and begin working as a freelancer.As a young woman living in Armenia, it wasn’t easy for me to find work. I wanted to do something, though, to help my parents, who were caring for three children - my two older siblings, both in medical school, and me.I was interested in creative arts and design, and I found a way to start learning some design skills at a local creative arts academy. I knew that if I wanted to build a career, I needed to learn graphic design and be able to work online as a freelancer. Coursera and the Graphic Design Specialization from California Institute of the Arts made that possible for me. I am very thankful for that Specialization - my professors were all such good people, and skilled professionals.After I com…
edX: Obehi: Discovering a New Passion with MicroMasters
We are excited to continue to share learner stories from the MITx Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program that demonstrate how MicroMasters programs are helping people improve their lives and advance their careers. Today, Obehi, a learner from Nigeria, explains how the Supply Chain Management MicroMasters program has helped him discover his passion in the field. Check out other MicroMasters learner stories from Jes, Danaka, and... Read More about Obehi: Discovering a New Passion with MicroMasters The post Obehi: Discovering a New Passion with MicroMasters appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Campus Sail Launches Online Orientation Platform by News Editor
Campus Sail’s Online Orientation platform for higher education fully integrates with a school’s existing system in order to automate the onboarding process.