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: A Beginner
You have probably used your iPhone to make videos of your friends and family. Have you thought about using your phone to make educational videos for the virtual classroom? This post will show you how. Often, when videos are made on the iPhone, the sound quality is poor and the footage is shaky.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Coming to Grips with Reality: Multiple Learning Modes by Sharon Fulton Bevers
Things don’t always work out the way the instructional designer expects. There may be organizational dysfunction that the needs assessment did not discover. Unanticipated constraints appear. Here’s the story of what happened on one project, and how the designer built a blended, technology-enabled solution that brought results far beyond what the sponsors expected.
Saylor.org: CUNY/BA Uses Saylor Summer School to Give Students Credit
What’s The Buzz? One the things that most excites us about our Saylor Summer School project is that our students can potentially pick up some credit through one of our partner schools or many others that are willing to take a look at NCCRS-recommended exams. Our friends at CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies are helping to spread [...]…
Udacity: Coffee Break Episode 6: Inside the Recording Studio
Happy Friday, Udacity! This week, we want to give you an inside look at what goes into producing one of our courses. Lauren Castellano, course developer for Udacity’s new Intro to Psychology offering, gives you a tour of the recording studio. Tune in for Lauren’s tour of scripting, recording and editing her lessons. If you’re curious about Intro to Psychology or any of our other amazing courses, head over to our course catalogue and take a look at your options. Happy Friday and happy learning! http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Saylor.org: We Love Resources: NextGenU
Calling all health students, practitioners, scientists, and those of you who are just curious! Students ask from time to time about what courses we have in the health fields, and the answer, we’re sorry to report, is none as yet. So if you’re interested in taking a free course about how climate change affects one’s [...]…
: WizIQ Teachers Love Technology!
Recently a friend of mine, Allison Morris, from www.onlineuniversities.com, sent me a gorgeous graphic she put together for her site. The graphic pulls together some great facts about teachers and technology. When I saw the graphic, it not only resonated with me but it inspired me to do some more teaching and learning on WizIQ.… Read the rest…
Saylor.org: Educator Snapshot: Eric Clark
Today, we’re here with Eric Clark, one our Real World Math and K-12 Course Designers…and our newest addition to our Educator Snapshot series! Hello Eric! Thank you for coming out here to speak with us today. Hello Marissa, my pleasure. So let’s get started! What work have you done with the Saylor Foundation? The work [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Making the Case for Performance Support by Jennifer Neibert
Even the best training initiatives are no match for work environments where well-trained employees cannot directly apply their learning. With insights from today’s leading performance support experts, Marc Rosenberg underscores the need for a new performance framework in a white paper from The eLearning Guild, At the Moment of Need: The Case for Performance Support.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Marc My Words: Google Glass as Wearable Performance Support by Marc J. Rosenberg
Google Glass is getting a lot of attention, but will we use it, and if so, how? It has features that might make it a viable performance-support technology in many settings, and it also creates some significant concerns. Read about the pros and cons here!
Saylor.org: Saylor Summer School 2013: 10 Weeks, 9 Credits, No Excuses.
We’re pleased to announce an exciting — and experimental! — summer project. Here’s the gist: for the next ten weeks, we’re going to run sessions for three of our best courses — with the possibility of getting real, portable college credit (yeah, with caveats*). We’d call it a MOOC, but that’s soooo 2012, don’t you [...]…
: 4 Tips to Get the Right Title for your Online Course
So you have an amazing course on WizIQ, incorporating interesting videos and you have spent hours perfecting how your LIVE classes will be conducted. You are all excited and after 2 weeks, not a single soul has even inquired about the course.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: GP Strategies Acquires Prospero Learning Solutions by News Editor
Company expands custom learning content development expertise in Canada.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Five Steps to Evaluate and Select an LMS: Proven Practices by Steve Foreman
If an organization is to evaluate learning management system (LMS) products and vendors effectively, what should it do? A new research report from The eLearning Guild, Evaluating and Selecting a Learning Management System, reveals what organizations that have already been through the process do. Read here the five steps that are proven to lead to the best decisions.
ALISON: ALISON And Silatech Deliver Arabic MOOC In A Major Partnership Initiative To Tackle Youth Unemployment In The Arab World
ALISON and Silatech, world leaders in online education and job creation have partnered to provide employability-related skills courses in Arabic, for the Arab World. …
ALISON: ALISON And Silatech Deliver Arabic MOOC In A Major Partnership Initiative To Tackle Youth Unemployment In The Arab World
ALISON and Silatech, world leaders in online education and job creation have partnered to provide employability-related skills courses in Arabic, for the Arab World. …
Saylor.org: Introduction to Computer Science I Now Available on iTunes U
Want to learn something new this summer? Interested in diving into a staff recommended course? Want to learn some basic Java from its creator? Then rejoice! CS101: Introduction to Computer Science – our most popular course — is now available on iTunes U. By the end of the course, you should be able to discuss the history of [...]…
Coursera: University of Chicago Joins Coursera
Today we’re happy to announce that the University of Chicago is joining Coursera’s network of 80 national and international educational partners currently offering free online courses to millions of Courserians. The University of Chicago shares with Coursera a commitment to providing faculty with the best resources to serve students in the classroom and across the world, and we’re delighted to work with them as they experiment with our platform and digital learning tools to improve on-campus teaching as well as reach a new audience of learners. The University of Chicago will offer an initial two courses on Coursera’s platform, with plans to expand their offerings based on faculty interest. The following courses, taught by renowned professors in their fields, will build out Coursera’s catalog in the areas of science and business: Global Warming, taught by David Archer: Professor in Geophysical Sciences and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Th…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: How to Deal with Barriers by Jane Bozarth
Change management is always a large part of introducing new tools and approaches. In fact, logic and talking points are seldom effective in dealing with resistance. It is important to understand the barriers to change and their predictable progression. Here are the barriers you can expect and the keys to getting past them.
Saylor.org: MMD: Innovations in EdTech
Good Morning and Happy Monday! Well here we are at the start of June. Summer weather has come here to our HQ in DC, and with change in the air, this week we look at innovations around the world. We begin this week with the Land Down Under, Australia. An innovative Aussie MOOC platform, Open [...]…
Coursera: Not Impossible: The Story of Daniel, a 17 Year Old with Severe Autism & His 6 Completed Coursera Courses
This is a post by Michael, Daniel’s father. Daniel is a 17 year old who has severe Autism. Daniel has, over the past year, taken and completed 6 Coursera courses. Their journey warmed our hearts and we asked Michael to share it with the Coursera community. We hope you enjoy Daniel’s story as much as we have. It is impossible to overstate the benefit and happiness that Coursera has brought to our son Daniel and our family. Five years ago (next month) our severely autistic son Daniel had a major breakthrough. Then twelve years old, with a using vocabulary of thirty or forty words (though we knew he understood far more) he suddenly learned to answer questions by picking the answers out, one letter at a time, on a letterboard. Within a couple of weeks, Daniel could use the thousands of words he had heard but could not speak. The teacher who created this breakthrough, Soma Mukhopadhyay, also taught us how to read to Daniel: read him a sentence, stop, ask him a comprehe…