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Udemy: May 27, 2016: Friday News Roundup
Welcome to Friday and happy Memorial Day weekend in the U.S., where the debate over how, when, and why people should learn coding is really heating up. Read on for a great profile of Udemy for Business—and don’t miss our special request at the end! American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong We’ve [...]…
edX: 7 Tips to Keep Your Brand’s Reputation Afloat in a Crisis
This is a guest blog post from Curtin University’s Reputation Management in a Digital World course team. When it comes to dealing with social media, even with careful processes and procedures in place, it’s frighteningly easy to become derailed by a perfect storm. We might do our best to monitor and respond to issues before they blow up on Twitter or Facebook, but what about the events... Read More about 7 Tips to Keep Your Brand’s Reputation Afloat in a Crisis The post 7 Tips to Keep Your Brand’s Reputation Afloat in a Crisis appeared first on edX Blog.
Udemy: 2016 Learning Trends on Udemy
Check out the infographic we just released showing what people around the U.S. are learning on Udemy and the interesting geographic and generational trends we’re tracking. Are you typical of your age and city?
Learning Solutions Magazine: Bad Gamification Won't Fix Bad eLearning: Seven Principles That Will by Fiona Quigley
Gamification is the use of game elements to motivate people to complete tasks. According to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Education, though, gamification is sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment, where interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Why? This article connects poor gamification implementation and poor eLearning design, and it suggests what we can do about both.
Saylor.org: Millionlights Join Forces with Saylor to Deliver Online Education and Skill Development to Learners in India
Millionlights a Pune, India based company, and Saylor Academy, based in Washington, DC., have entered into an agreement to help Indian learners access quality education by offering Saylor’s courses built by credentialed professors and subject matter experts. Millionlights and Saylor will work together to offer Saylor courses through Millionlights online education platform ‘millionlights.org’, which is ... Read More ...
Learning Solutions Magazine: The State of Security in the LMS Industry by Rich Chetwynd
eLearning system security has been a concern for years. With time, the concern has only increased, especially for learning management system (LMS) security. Most work has been to make infrastructure secure and to train users. However, 95 percent of security breaches still come through noncompliant users. Here is a description of an approach that offers promise, whether users are compliant or not.
Udemy: Who Are You Calling Soft? The Value Of Soft Skills In A Tech-Obsessed Economy
For a while, the tech skills gap has dominated the conversation around the needs of the 21st century workplace. As globalization and labor automation accelerate the growth of a knowledge-based economy, the perceived premium on “hard” skills like programming is reaching an all-time high. But inside of companies, business leaders have long been crying out [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: A Review of Rehearsal, or How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? by Joe Ganci
Classes and courses do not make learners into experts. They are the foundation for further learning, but it’s practice that takes learners to higher levels of skill. But training often leaves out the follow-up practice and feedback, so the foundation erodes quickly. Now Rehearsal.com provides a chance to practice with someone, a mentor who has an excellent reputation. Read about it here!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Overcome the Challenge of Connectivity with gomo learning's Native App for Training by News Editor
gomo learning, a leader in multi-device eLearning authoring, announces the all-new gomo central app. The native app provides offline access to content and full tracking—even when users are disconnected.
edX: How to Write an Effective CV – 5 Steps From the Experts
This guest post was written by Keenan Manning, a Project Associate at the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Keenan is part of the team in the upcoming English at Work in Asia: Job Applications, CVs and Cover Letters, and English at Work in Asia: Preparing for a Job Interview on edX, starting 9 May 2016 and 23 May 2016. You’ve seen... Read More about How to Write an Effective CV – 5 Steps From the Experts The post How to Write an Effective CV – 5 Steps From the Experts appeared first on edX Blog.
Saylor.org: New features in our Discussion Forums
Our community discussion forums are powered by open source software called Discourse. If you (ahem!) haven’t visited or joined our forums, you can do so right now: Visit the forums Join the forums We are now up to date with Version 1.5 of Discourse and wanted to let you know about new features and what ... Read More ...
Learning Solutions Magazine: Keeping It Real: Staying Out of the Knowledge Dump and Getting to Performance by Shauna Vaughan
Instructional designers sometimes have a problem: we get hung up in the content and forget about what the content is supposed to do for the learners—prepare them for something on the job. That’s how we get solutions that are only surface- level knowledge transfer, also known as knowledge dump. Here are four things you can do to stay out of that dump.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Train Your Millennial Workforce with Indusgeeks' Enhanced Game-based Learning Platform: INIT by News Editor
Indusgeeks, a game-based training company, announces enhancements to its content transformation platform to create game-based learning solutions specifically for the banking, financial services, and insurance industries.
edX: From MOOC to bootcamp to MIT
This story originally ran on MIT News. The original post can be found here. Two students with entrepreneurial spirit found their way into the Class of 2020 through MITx. Entrepreneurs share a lot in common: Determination. Passion. Ingenuity. And in the case of two students enrolling at MIT this fall: A path shaped by MITx. While everyone takes a different road to success, MIT’s online... Read More about From MOOC to bootcamp to MIT The post From MOOC to bootcamp to MIT appeared first on edX Blog.
Udemy: May 20, 2016: Friday News Roundup
Hope everyone had a great week. It’s time to sit back and soak up some news about older people in the workforce, growing numbers of talented folks staying independent, and a feel-good story to wrap things up. Why high-skilled freelancers are leaving corporate life behind Here’s further evidence that having a rich combination of skills [...]…
edX: Ruby On Rails: One of the Most In Demand Programming Languages of 2016
Ruby on Rails is picking up speed in 2016. When Ruby on Rails, a web application framework written in the Ruby programming language, was first released as open source back in July 2004, it stumbled to rise in the rankings as one of the top programming languages. But in 2006, Apple announced that it would be shipping Ruby on Rails with their Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard”... Read More about Ruby On Rails: One of the Most In Demand Programming Languages of 2016 The post Ruby On Rails: One of the Most In Demand Programming Languages of 2016 appeared first on edX Blog.
Saylor.org: Student Handbook updated and revised
We have just rolled out a new student handbook, which you can view any time at saylor.org/handbook Those who have been around long enough to be quite familiar with Saylor Academy won’t notice too much that has changed, but here’s the news: We have removed references to the ePortfolio. We have clarified guidelines on maintaining ... Read More ...
Learning Solutions Magazine: Magic Coast Introduces VODaL: Simplifying Live Video Webcasts by News Editor
Video on demand (VOD) is a great innovation: It offers providers control, low risk, and simplicity. Unfortunately, it can be problematic for training use, where you want engagement, interactivity, and real-time collaboration. VODaL offers a user experience that resembles a live streaming event without the cost and risk of live television!
edX: Start College This Summer: Credit-Eligible Courses Starting in June
Earn college credit online this summer with three new courses from Arizona State University and Global Freshman Academy. If you’ve just graduated high school and want to get a head start on college or if you need to earn credits this summer to fulfill degree requirements, these online courses may be perfect for you. Earn up to 15 credit hours that be applied toward an... Read More about Start College This Summer: Credit-Eligible Courses Starting in June The post Start College This Summer: Credit-Eligible Courses Starting in June appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Up in the Air on Faculty Evaluation by Henry M. Smith, Carey Borkoski and Beth McCord Kobett
Technology changes job assessment and online teaching and learning practices in higher education (and other organizations as well). This includes the empowerment of new groups of stakeholders, including students, leading in some institutions to political pressure to implement new assessments to improve teaching and learning. Here is how these forces are playing out at one university.