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Learning Solutions Magazine: The Smart Instructional Designer's Path to Gamification: Add Value, Not Points by Enzo Silva
There is a lot of confusion over the differences between games and gamification. Not only that, gamification often rewards the wrong things. Gamification need not involve a lot of extra work for the designer who applies the four simple ideas presented in this article.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: How to Rock Your Virtual Classroom with Participant Chat by Jane Bozarth
Participant chat is a tool included in most virtual classroom products, yet it is underutilized. If you think of it as just a place for participants to chat, offer commentary, or ask questions, you are missing a golden opportunity to engage your audience! Here are seven incredibly productive ways to encourage the reluctant and avoid the “Anyone? Anyone?” moments.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Seven Myths About Instructional Video: Which One Is Limiting You? by John Parsons
Online video has been available since the late 1990s, but we are still discovering new ways to use it in training. On top of that, there are myths and misconceptions about the best way to deliver instructional video content. Here are seven common myths, and suggestions that will help you see past them.
edX: Sam Matey: The 15-Year-Old College Freshman
Sam Matey is not your average 15-year-old high school student. Between rock climbing with his local high school club and enjoying the outdoors like your average teenager in Maine, Sam is also completing his freshman year of college with Arizona State University (ASU) and edX through the Global Freshman Academy (GFA). Sam is no stranger to online courses. He has been homeschooled for most of... Read More about Sam Matey: The 15-Year-Old College Freshman The post Sam Matey: The 15-Year-Old College Freshman appeared first on edX Blog.
Udemy: Udemy’s “Most Influential Womenâ€
Udemy is lucky enough to work with not one, but two, of the Bay Area’s “Most Influential Women in Business”: Alexandra Sepulveda, deputy general counsel, and Claire Hough, senior vice president of engineering. These two role models inspire us with their leadership, intelligence, and compassion day in and day out. We took this special opportunity to sit [...]…
Coursera: Learner Story: A Purpose to Learn and Give Back
We’re always touched to hear from learners who are using skills they’ve built on Coursera to enrich their lives and give back to their communities. This week, we’re sharing a story from Sonal Trivedi - we hope you find her story as inspiring as we do! In 2013, Sonal Trivedi felt bored and directionless. She held a BS in biology and had had a fast-paced career in teaching and technology, but an unexpected surgery had left her living the life of a housewife in a remote town, with too much free time and nothing to work toward. Her son suggested she try taking courses online, so she enrolled in the University of California, San Francisco’s Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention course on Coursera. Immediately, Sonal felt her passion for learning - and for life - return. Over the next year, she completed nearly a dozen health and life science courses. Her confidence improved still further when she began sharing her knowledge by volunteering, both in…
Udemy: Happy employees make customers happy #MySuccessMetric
Popular wisdom would suggest having happy customers takes priority over happy employees. I think it’s more nuanced than that. At Udemy, the answer was very simple at first. Any startup has to focus on market fit, growth, revenue, and customer satisfaction almost exclusively at the beginning, when survival comes before all else. However, it wasn’t [...]…
Udemy: April 29, 2016: Friday News Roundup
Welcome to the weekend! Check out these articles for the latest on learning, teaching, and careers. Professors hate online education. To save colleges, they have to learn to love it. We’ve previously shared articles about how college faculty and administrators have been resisting the pull of online learning, even as their students are embracing it. [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Guild Announces Mobile Storm White Paper by Kat Gore
The eLearning Guild has released a complimentary white paper, Harnessing the Mobile Storm: The Power and Potential of Mobile Learning. This white paper paints a colorful picture of the power and potential of the mobile storm now reaching the shores of most learning and development groups.
edX: Improve Your Math Skills with 5 Free Online Courses
It’s always a good time to work on your math skills. Developing the technical side of your brain through practice problem solving will help you in so many situations throughout your life, including taking college entrance exams, applying for jobs, getting a mortgage on a home or even doing your taxes. Working through math problems, playing math games and using math worksheets develops your critical... Read More about Improve Your Math Skills with 5 Free Online Courses The post Improve Your Math Skills with 5 Free Online Courses appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Research Spotlight: Mobile Learning Perspectives by Sharon Vipond
Mobile learning (mLearning) is a topic that continues to grow and evolve. Today, mobile is ubiquitous, seeming to pervade every aspect of life and business. In The eLearning Guild’s latest eBook, managers and practitioners with strong hands-on experience in mobile learning development present their best thinking on five fundamental questions about how to realize the benefits of mLearning.
edX: 5 Essential Work from Home Job Skills
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” When Confucius said that, it was the 551-479 BC and transportation costs were probably the last thing on his mind. In the pursuit of finding the perfect job, the length of the commute or your ability to pick up and move can be a real barrier. While it’s... Read More about 5 Essential Work from Home Job Skills The post 5 Essential Work from Home Job Skills appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: What's the Best eLearning Tool? It Depends (Part 2) by Joe Ganci
In March of this year, Joe got you started on the process to identify the learning tool(s) that best match your instructional design needs. This month, he completes the process with a list of the exact questions you need to ask tool vendors!
edX: edX Celebrates 4 Years!
Four years later and edX learners have accomplished so much. In 2012, edX began with a strong passion and commitment to our mission to increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere. As we celebrate edX’s 4th birthday, we look back on all that our edX learners have accomplished and feel so incredibly proud. Take a look below to see how far edX and our learners have come in four short... Read More about edX Celebrates 4 Years! The post edX Celebrates 4 Years! appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: The Experience API (xAPI): A GPS for Learning by Michael Hruska
Affordances of mobile, social, and emerging specifications like the Experience API (and others) are positioning a revolutionary learning ecosystem that offers individuals help in navigating all those possibilities. We are now on the cusp of realizing the value and potential of this development. Here is a look at the path ahead to that outcome.
Udemy: Celebrating “Best Places to Work†2016
2016 has been off to a big start for the Udemy team — we surpassed 10 million students, acquired Talentbuddy, simplified our pricing, and launched a new course-taking experience, just to name a few. We’ve been busy making major strides toward delivering the best possible learning and teaching experiences to help people succeed. This week, [...]…
edX: What You Can Do To Save Our Planet
On April 22, 1970, thousands of colleges and universities across America organized protests against the deterioration of the environment, marking the first-ever Earth Day. More than 20 million Americans marched through the streets & parks, in order to fight against environmental problems – oil spills, polluting factories, toxic dumps, and more Nearly a half a century later, we still find ourselves facing many of the same... Read More about What You Can Do To Save Our Planet The post What You Can Do To Save Our Planet appeared first on edX Blog.
Udemy: April 22, 2016: Friday News Roundup
Hey, it’s Friday! Got big plans for the weekend? Scale up your CV through digital learning First up, read our CEO Dennis Yang’s advice to working adults in India looking to get (and stay) ahead in their careers. After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice So much [...]…
Coursera: When Limari became a mother, she knew she needed to rethink her...
When Limari became a mother, she knew she needed to rethink her career so that she could spend time with her son. Northwestern University’s Content Strategy course on Coursera helped her build the skills she needed to succeed as a freelancer. Read Limari’s story below, or watch her story on video. I was born in Puerto Rico, which is a very festive culture. I grew up with a lot of love for the music, and when I was young, I wanted to be a musician. But after I graduated from college, I felt stuck in limbo. Then I got pregnant, and when I had my child, I really wanted to stay at home with him. A great friend of mine, who worked in advertising, said that she had a perfect job for me in social media. After I started, though, I realized it was way more than I bargained for. It was not only posting on Facebook or Instagram or this or that - there was a science behind it. I began to look for different courses that would give me the in-depth knowledge I needed, and I bumped into…
Udemy: India: Scale Up Your CV Through Digital Learning
This article originally appeared on IndiaPages. How do you keep learning and gaining new skills when you’re working full-time and don’t have easy access to local resources or training through your employer? Given the rapid pace of change in today’s workplace and the increase in occupations impacted by automation, the question is hardly theoretical. Indeed, earning [...]…