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Learning Solutions Magazine: “Accidental” Plagiarism Is Still Plagiarism by Pamela S. Hogle
Anyone using even a small snippet of someone else’s work—text, images, music—must give credit to the author. Not doing so is plagiarism, an unethical act that damages the credibility of your eLearning content. Learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
Coursera: 45+ New Courses and Specializations Launching on Coursera
Whatever you envision for the next step in your career - expanding your job scope, pursuing a leadership role, or moving into a new industry - we want to help you get started. That’s why we’re adding more career-relevant content to the Coursera catalog, including courses and Specializations in new areas like startup valuation, marketing analytics, and UI design. Every course is taught by leading instructors from the world’s top universities; Specializations are designed to build your mastery of a particular topic, and include hands-on projects to help you demonstrate that you’re ready for the next step in your career. The following new and updated courses and Specializations are now open for enrollment: Business Business Statistics and Analysis, Rice University Foundations of Marketing Analytics, Emory University Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business, University of Maryland Investment and Portfolio Management, Rice University Valuation and Financ…
Udemy: Here’s why you can’t always trust your gut
It can deceive you in the hiring process. Attracting and retaining talent is a constant challenge. I work in San Francisco, where the unemployment rate is below both the national and state averages, giving qualified candidates tremendous choice and agency in determining their next career move. In such a competitive climate, it can be tempting [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Deeper Design: Putting It All Together by Clark N. Quinn
The end of any eLearning development project comes when you deliver the product. For the team of developers in this story, that will happen the week of September 12 (next week!). Here is the final chapter, in which the team deals with the authoring and user experience issues.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Ask the Right Questions Before Designing eLearning by Pamela S. Hogle
Clear goals and a design that focuses on these goals are what moves eLearning from forgettable to successful. Keeping the questions presented here—and their answers—firmly in mind throughout the design process can help.
edX: Environmental Challenges: Why We all Need to Take Action
This is a guest blog post from Curtin University’s Environmental Studies: A Global Perspective course team. Last year was a major win for environmentalists across the globe, with the Paris Agreement acknowledging that climate change has been influenced by human activity and setting a goal to limit the global average surface temperature increase to 1.5°C above the baseline average. In spite of this step forward, the reality... Read More about Environmental Challenges: Why We all Need to Take Action The post Environmental Challenges: Why We all Need to Take Action appeared first on edX Blog.
edX: Environmental Challenges: Why We All Need to Take Action
This is a guest blog post from Curtin University’s Environmental Studies: A Global Perspective course team. Last year was a major win for environmentalists across the globe, with the Paris Agreement acknowledging that climate change has been influenced by human activity and setting a goal to limit the global average surface temperature increase to 1.5°C above the baseline average. In spite of this step forward, the reality... Read More about Environmental Challenges: Why We All Need to Take Action The post Environmental Challenges: Why We All Need to Take Action appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: Working Out Loud: What's In It for Organizations? by Jane Bozarth
There’s a lot of conversation lately about working out loud and the benefits it brings to individual workers. At the same time, however, it’s a tough sell to make to leaders in some organizations. Here are the five chief benefits to the organization, explained in a way that’s hard to argue with!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Ten Ways to Create Useful Hyperlinks by Pamela S. Hogle
Hyperlinks in eLearning content can make the content more valuable to learners, but to be useful, the links have to be clear and meaningful. These 10 tips will ensure that links add value to your eLearning.
Khan Academy: Usuarios Telcel ahora pueden navegar en Khan Academy sin usar sus datos móviles en las aplicaciones móviles y en es.zero.khanacademy.org, gracias a nuestra alianza con Telcel y la Fundación Carlos Slim // Telcel customers can now access Khan Academy free of data charges on mobile apps and es.zero.kh
español Estamos progresando continuamente en nuestra misión de proveer una educación gratuita y de clase mundial para cualquier persona, en cualquier lugar. Nuestros contenidos y productos ayudan a millones de estudiantes y maestros alrededor del mundo a practicar y explorar habilidades académicas a su propio ritmo y en sus propios términos.Sin embargo, estamos a medio camino. Mientras continuamos expandiendo nuestros esfuerzos en los Estados Unidos y en otros países, es importante que nuestros recursos de alta calidad sean accesibles para cualquiera. A pesar de las tendencias globales que indican que las personas están entrando al mundo digital más rápido que nunca antes, todavía existen dos principales barreras para lograr el acceso global a la educación en línea: infraestructura básica y costo de datos de navegación.En Khan Academy, nos dedicamos a reducir las barreras para el acceso un…
Learning Solutions Magazine: SkillCamp: Linking Learning to Business Outcomes Through Performance Support by Oliver Kern
This article describes the creation of SkillCamp, a marketing and sales learning framework and academy in the agricultural industry that covers different content delivery methods, from classroom training to online performance support. It also discusses key principles of performance support and success factors for establishing such a framework. This is vital reading for managers and executives!
edX: Product Marketing Managers: What They Do and How to Become One
Thousands of new products are released every day, but have you ever wondered what actually goes into bringing them to market? Product marketing managers are at the forefront of all the behind the scenes work. They collaborate with engineers and creative teams to help bring a product from concept to commercialization. They’re involved in things like pricing, strategy, market analysis, branding and messaging. A product... Read More about Product Marketing Managers: What They Do and How to Become One The post Product Marketing Managers: What They Do and How to Become One appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Deeper Design: Tweaking the Media by Clark N. Quinn
With the high-level issues resolved, the design team began to wrestle with and fine-tune key choices of implementation for those decisions. This was necessary before final development within an authoring tool could be successful. This is a short story, but without it the course could never be realized.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Back to Basics: Avoid Assumptions in eLearning Design by Pamela S. Hogle
When targeting training to adults, eLearning designers cannot safely assume any technical knowledge unless the training is specifically geared toward a technical audience. Learners might have learned to use specific tools or instruments for their work, but that does not necessarily translate to ease with email, social networks, or even a computer mouse.
edX: Craig Jones: Staying up to Date with HTML5 to Further His Career
Craig Jones, a learner from Atlanta, Georgia, shares how he used edX courses to stay current in his field of work, supplement his resume, and further his job search. I started my professional career in 1996 as a graphic designer in marketing communications for a rapidly growing telecom, and soon found myself pulled into creating design and graphics for the company’s first web site. Over the... Read More about Craig Jones: Staying up to Date with HTML5 to Further His Career The post Craig Jones: Staying up to Date with HTML5 to Further His Career appeared first on edX Blog.
Coursera: Announcing Coursera for Business
By Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera Coursera was founded with the vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to anyone, anywhere. We’ve come a long way since our launch in 2012; we now have over 21 million registered learners throughout the world, and we’re bringing them outstanding educational content from 145 of the world’s leading universities. Today, we are taking yet another important step in our effort to expand the Coursera learner community. I am excited to announce Coursera for Business, our enterprise platform for workforce development at scale. We see Coursera for Business as a natural extension of our vision, and as a powerful way to help leading companies around the world address the rapidly evolving training and development needs of their employees. Since Coursera’s inception, we have kept learners at the center of our approach as we consider new growth opportunities. We’ve always known that many of our learners are housed withi…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Video on Your Budget and Your Schedule by Pamela S. Hogle
Learners retain information presented visually better than information presented only as text. Microlearning videos, as part of an eLearning strategy, enhance the effectiveness of training. Create low-budget, high-engagement microlearning videos with free tools!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Deeper Design: Beyond Traditional Instructional Design by Clark N. Quinn
“Deeper design” goes beyond traditional instructional design to reflect on what’s known about how we learn and what that implies for the strategy. Too often we talk about “content” without talking about the subtleties. Continuing the story of how a team of designers implemented these ideas, here is their high-level process as they move from the objectives to deciding on pedagogy.
Udemy: Udemy course helps instructor win award and get a job
We were thrilled to read recently that instructor Ahmed Alkabary was awarded a scholarship from the Linux Foundation—and his Udemy course played a role in his achievement. We got in touch to find out more about Ahmed, whose course, “Linux Command Line Basics,” has more than 49,000 students! How did you hear about Udemy [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Buzzword Decoder: Microlearning by Pamela S. Hogle
Breaking long-format online or in-person training into small “nuggets”—microlearning—makes it possible to give learners the information they need at the time they need it, at their desktops or via mobile devices.