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Learning Solutions Magazine: dominKnow Flow: Author Once for Multiple Versions by News Editor
dominKnow Learning Systems introduces dominKnow Flow, a new web-based authoring platform that outputs fully responsive and adaptive learning content that automatically adjusts depending on the user’s screen.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Book Review: Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide, by Richard Sites and Angel Green by Jennifer Neibert
Written as a follow-up to Michael Allen’s 2012 bestseller Leaving ADDIE for SAM, the recently released Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide, by Richard Sites and Angel Green, is chock-full of checklists, worksheets, templates, and tools. The Field Guide is sure to become a go-to reference as you make the most of the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) in your organization.
Udemy: Find Your Next Udemy Course by Exploring New Course Categories!
It’s now easier than ever to find Udemy courses that interest you, using the new course menu structure on Udemy.com. The new menu (screenshot on left), on the left-hand side of the homepage, breaks down some of the previously broad course topics (such as the previous Technology category) into more specific topics (such as Development [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: mLearnCon Guild Master and mLearning DemoFest 2014 Winners by Bill Brandon
At mLearnCon 2014, The eLearning Guild recognized Guild members and conference attendees who have contributed their knowledge and expertise to the learning profession. Here are the names of the mLearnCon 2014 Guild Master and the winners of the 2014 mLearning DemoFest.
Coursera: Coursera Cup Week 2: Leaderboard Update
Imagine: if everyone that watched the World Cup took a course on Coursera…. While athletes and fans enthusiastically represent their countries in the World Cup, the Coursera Cup encourages our global community to represent their country or region via their power of learning. To influence your country/region Coursera Cup ranking, invite friends from your country and watch lecture videos during the 2014 World Cup. Week 1 Leaderboard Standings COURSERA CUP LEADERBOARD STANDINGS The Coursera Cup Leaderboard is a measurement of the most active Courserians per capita per country/region with over 10k learners. We are measuring “Activity” by video lectures watched and number of learners per capita: Top 30 Countries/Regions Singapore Taiwan Australia (+2) Ireland United States (+1) Hong Kong (-3) Canada Israel New Zealand Greece Switzerland United Kingdom Lithuania Denmark Spain (+1) Netherlands (-1) Portugal United Arab Emirates (+2) Cr…
Iversity: 3 Ways MOOCs Can Benefit Employers
Online learning doesn’t just offer great opportunities to learners. They allow professors to bring thousands of students into the lecture hall at one time, complement existing educational structures and support universities on the academic market. MOOCs are also a great solution for building skills and talents that are lacking on the job market. Even governments […] The post 3 Ways MOOCs Can Benefit Employers appeared first on iversity Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: Reflective Practice by Jane Bozarth
Professional development—our own, personal, professional development—is one of the most important things we can invest in. This isn’t a matter of paying money, necessarily, but of paying time and attention on a regular, even daily, basis to consciously becoming better at what you do. How? Reflective practice. Reading this column could be the best thing you do for yourself today.
Khan Academy: New Series on the American Revolution from the Aspen Institute
In the summer of 2011, Sal shared a “Big Idea” at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The idea was to combine the power of Khan Academy with the network of the Aspen Institute, an educational and policy studies organization, to bring the ideas and perspectives of some of the most respected authorities on various subjects to learners anywhere, for free. Over the past several months, Khan Academy and the Aspen Institute have been working in partnership to develop a new and exciting series on the American Revolution. Just last week, we launched that series which includes tutorials on the founding documents, founding fathers, and founding mothers of the United States of America. This initial offering of videos lives up to the idea of bringing together respected authorities on the subject, and the videos feature conversations between Sir Walter Isaacson and a variety of phenomenal contributors including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joe Ellis, award-winning journalist Cokie Roberts, an…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Best Practices: Get Learners and Stakeholders to Adopt New eLearning Technology by Stacy Lindenberg
New eLearning implementations and their supporting technologies, from learning management systems and learning record stores to mobile devices, social media, and performance support, introduce change in organizational life. End user and stakeholder resistance to change can defeat even the “perfect” system. Here are five key practices to gain the support needed for success.
Coursera: Coursera Celebrates Pride Month! At Coursera, we believe...
Coursera Celebrates Pride Month! At Coursera, we believe education is a fundamental human right. The month of June is Pride, a celebration of progress toward another basic human right: equality for all people regardless of sexual orientation. Pride is also an occasion to recognize how far we’ve come in our communities, our countries, and around the world, while reflecting on how much further we still have to go. To our LGBT employees, learners, and allies: Learn and Love Without Limits!
Khan Academy: A Summer Update
Khan Academy has been running small-scale summer camps since 2009 to better understand different models of learning and many of you have asked whether we are continuing them this year. Unfortunately, we are not. However, we have learned so much from those camps that we are now exploring a longer duration, but smaller scale, learning lab in the coming months. This will be set up to let us have an even more hands-on and sustained approach to research blended learning and education innovation, which will also let us experiment and share our learnings with schools and networks around the world. This is just one of the many ways we’re learning from educators and students: we connect with hundreds of thousands of folks who use Khan Academy in their classrooms, we run pilots with numerous schools including Idaho State and of course facilitate our teacher workshops. These avenues help us understand so much more about creative ways to teach, and also help make our platform even more usefu…
Udacity: Udacity For Android: Learning to Fit Your Life
Udacity for Android is now available on Google Play! Since launching a mobile Udacity experience for iPhone and iPad two months ago, we’ve been hard at work on an Android app. All Udacity courses are now available on Android for the first time, in a classroom specifically built and optimized for touch. Now, you can stream lectures wherever your Android device goes, and test yourself with quick and fun quizzes and you learn on the go. In bringing you an Android app, we decided to re-think the design and classroom to take advantage of all the benefits that Android has to offer. Today, the Udacity Android experience is flexible, fast, and still evolving. Flexible Classroom Android variations in screen size is actually one of the big advantages that Android holds over Apple devices, one that gives Udacity students flexibility to access a larger classroom.If a user wants a giant phone, they have a large selection to choose from. The Udacity Android classroom takes…
Udacity: Android & Scalability: Announcing Four New Courses with Google
Today, we’re going to Google’s annual technology conference, Google I/O, to explore the themes of design, development, and distribution. And we’re not showing up empty-handed. We’re introducing four new courses, created in collaboration with Google, in key areas of web and mobile development: Android fundamentals, Cloud fundamentals, UX fundamentals, and web performance. When we build classes that will get you a job, we start at the source: collaborating with industry employers to identify and teach the skills that will get you ahead. Peter Lubbers, who runs scalable developer programs at Google, recently told The New York Times, “We want to fast-track the best practices at a large scale. We want all the techniques we know about to get out to the market.” When you take any one of these courses, you’re learning a curriculum developed and taught by Google experts.Lubbers says, “We are building this curriculum because we b…
Coursera: Do It For Your Country: Win the Coursera Cup!
During the last FIFA World Cup over 3.2 billion people watched at least some part of a match. This gigantic number might make the Courserian community of over 8 million strong seem small. However, we Courserians know that the impact of our community is incredibly powerful, long-lasting and widespread. We are MASSIVE football fans, yet can’t help but think that if as many people that watched the World Cup took a course on Coursera, what an interesting, fascinating and learned world it’d be! COURSERA CUP LEADERBOARD STANDINGS The Coursera Cup Leaderboard is a measurement of the most active Courserians per capita per country/region with over 10k learners. We are measuring “Activity” by video lectures watched and number of learners per capita: Top 30 Countries/Regions Singapore Taiwan Hong Kong Ireland Australia United States Canada Israel New Zealand Greece Switzerland United Kingdom Lithuania Denmark Netherlands Spain Por…
Udacity: Driving Through the Learning Curve and Other Udacity Teaching Philosophies
"What we have to do as teachers and educators is to understand and read what we already know about good teaching and learning practices and incorporate them into an online learning space," says our instructor Kunal Chawla to Charlie Chung from Class Central, an online course aggregator. In a recent interview, Charlie asked Kunal about Udacity's teaching philosophy and some of the design decisions behind his new course Programming Foundations with Python. You can read the text and view video clips from this conversation here. Kunal explaining how he designs courses at Udacity Kunal explains the steps involved in creating a course at Udacity, which include identifying the learner and determining the learning objectives. This is where Kunal "spends a lot of time" in the design process. "The kind of learner I was going for," says Kunal, "was someone who wanted to learn how to program but was somewhat intimidated by programming." He goes on to explain the other stages of the cou…
Iversity: Charlemagne – Pater Europae: New MOOC, new exhibition
Public attention across Europe these days seems to be directed towards the 100th anniversary of World War One. However, Europe’s roots reach back a lot further than that. This year also marks the 1200th year after the death of Charlemagne (748-814 AD). iversity commemorates the lasting influence of the emperor of the Kingdom of the […] The post Charlemagne – Pater Europae: New MOOC, new exhibition appeared first on iversity Blog.
ALISON: Just Finished the Leaving Certificate Math Exams? Now find out how you did!
This year’s Irish Leaving Certificate students don’t need to wait until August to find out how their 2014 Math exams went. Thanks to ALISON, students can now download free solutions to this year’s papers.
ALISON: Just Finished the Leaving Certificate Math Exams? Now find out how you did!
This year’s Irish Leaving Certificate students don’t need to wait until August to find out how their 2014 Math exams went. Thanks to ALISON, students can now download free solutions to this year’s papers.
Saylor.org: Documentary film screening (D.C.): Courageous Learning
If you are in D.C., consider this event for your calendar; if not, keep an eye out for this documentary film (and when you spot it, watch it). The U.S. Congressional E-Learning Caucus hosts the premier of documentary film Courageous Learning on June 23, 2014 at noon in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center (Room HVC-200). From the announcement ... Read More ...
Udacity: New Mini Course: Website Performance Optimization
Ilya Grigorik explaining the Critical Rendering Path Modern consumers expect fast online experiences. Speed is a feature - as Google Web Performance Engineer and Developer Advocate Ilya Grigorik writes, speed is “a requirement driven by empirical results, as measured with respect to the bottom-line performance of the many online businesses.” Better performance leads to better engagement and more conversions. Is optimizing for speed part of your web developer toolbox yet? We’ve teamed up with Google to teach you how to integrate this performance mindset into your web development. Check out our latest mini course, Website Performance Optimization, created with Ilya Grigorik, who has also authored the seminal High Performance Browser Networking (O’Reilly, 2013). In the course, you’ll learn that there’s no secret formula to make a website render lightning fast. You’ll discover performance optimizations by demystifying how browsers…