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Learning Solutions Magazine: Lectora Inspire v.11: Demo Webinar February 27 by News Editor
Trivantis recently released the biggest upgrade in the history of Lectora, with a completely new interface and 112 new features. Get a firsthand demonstration of Lectora V11 today! Details in this article.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Lectora Inspire v.11: Demo Webinar February 27 by News Editor
Trivantis recently released the biggest upgrade in the history of Lectora, with a completely new interface and 112 new features. Get a firsthand demonstration of Lectora V11 today! Details in this article.
Coursera: University Spotlight: Take Courses from the #1 Business School in Europe
We offer Business & Management courses from universities around the world, including courses from the newest universities to join Coursera. These courses cover everything from business strategy and leadership to finance and operations management. Today, we’d like to share a little more information about IE Business School in Spain, which was ranked the #1 business school in Europe by the Financial Times last year! IE is dedicated to educating business leaders around the world, with core values of global focus, entrepreneurial spirit, and a humanistic approach to learning. They have an international faculty with more than 500 professors; and their alumni (numbering more than 40,000) hold management positions in 100+ countries around the world.The two courses IE currently lists are Critical Perspectives on Management (which will begin in Fall 2013) and Undertaking Economic Policymaking (start date to be announced).
: Moodling Beyond Moodle
Moodle for Teachers Electronic Village Online took place on WizIQ and on a Moodle website called Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL) from January to February 2013. M4TEVO2013 free 5-week online workshop took place for the second time as part of EVO and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).… Read the rest…
: How to find paying students online
At my recent connecting online 2013 webinar on the WizIQ platform, I presented a topic called “ How do you promote your courses online”? A burning issue was the question of finding paying students. Much of the webinar talk revolved around building up an online presence and reputation.… Read the rest…
: Five Ways to Teach with Movies Online
I’ve always been fascinated by the potential of using movies to teach. Over the years I’ve come up with many ideas for this. I’ve also recently been inspired by colleagues who have written books on the subject or who have created online movie utopias for ELT.… Read the rest…
Saylor.org: Course o
Distill mechanical engineering enough and you’ll end up with mathematics and physics (and we won’t wade into the argument of which one of those two is more elemental). Look closely, and you’ll find you’ve also wound up with a good bit of common sense. Engineering is whole-heartedly about real-world application and creative problem-solving, making it [...]…
Saylor.org: Gallup
A couple weeks ago, we mentioned a recent poll by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation on what Americans want from higher education. Today, our own Marissa shares her thoughts. – Ed. Is higher education still valuable? Should the current accrediting system change? Is tuition too expensive? The American general public seems to think so. According [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8 by Joe Ganci
Techsmith’s Camtasia 8 is a complete reboot, rewritten from scratch, and it is attracting attention not only from eLearning developers but also from video production professionals and even from consumer periodicals. This is a beautiful tool to add to your kit, and you can read all about it here!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8 by Joe Ganci
Techsmith’s Camtasia 8 is a complete reboot, rewritten from scratch, and it is attracting attention not only from eLearning developers but also from video production professionals and even from consumer periodicals. This is a beautiful tool to add to your kit, and you can read all about it here!
Coursera: University Spotlight: Learn from Top Universities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan
In September 2012, we announced that courses from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology would be joining the Coursera platform. Now, we’re excited to welcome four more schools from Asia to our community! These universities will be offering courses across all disciplines, and select courses will be taught in Chinese. Learn more about these universities below: The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward looking comprehensive research university. With the motto, “Through learning and temperance to virtue,” the university has a global vision and mission to nurture students with both specialized knowledge and wisdom for life. CUHK teachers and students hail from all corners of the world. National Taiwan University: National Taiwan University’s motto is “Cultivate virtue, advance intellect; love one’s country, love one’s people.” The school…
Coursera: Why not an option for online chat/conversation for a course ?
We’ve gotten a lot of good ideas on how to make the coursera experience more interactive, thank you for this suggestion!
Coursera: Please create calendar events for each course. As a working professional, I create manually calendar events for my courses, I have enrolled for the coming months. It would be great if you can create google calendar/ iCal events for us.
Thank you for the feedback, great suggestions!
Saylor.org: OER Newsletter
Here’s one of our favorites. Check it out! Open License MapStory [CC BY-SA 2.0] Creative platform that allows you to start your own story or build on another one, with use of maps and time lines as a foundation. Through Creative Commons, this platform is completely free, and it allows you to “share [...]…
Udacity: February Updates
Happy Year of the Snake/Lunar New Year and happy February! For those who have been keeping track, February 20th was our 1-year anniversary of launching our first Udacity courses: Intro to Computer Science (CS101) and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics (CS373)! Thank you for all of your support and willingness to provide us with valuable feedback this year. Read more about Professor Dave Evans experience with Udacity in his blog post. He shares a part of the story behind our first year and the Introduction to Computer Science: Building a Search Engine course. For everyone that has loved this course, we’re adding adding 3 units to CS101 on March 11! The additional units will further help prepare students to take on some of our intermediate CS courses.Mark your calendars! Two new courses are launching in March – Interactive 3D Graphics brought to you by Autodesk and Functional Hardware Verification created by Cadence. Additiona…
Saylor.org: Monday Morning Digest: Ch-Ch-Changes in Ed. tech.
Good Morning, and happy Monday! For this week, we look at how educational technology has changed. Some can be good and some can, well, some can still be under debate. As new ideas and innovations come into being it is often helpful to take a bird’s eye view of it all. We start off today [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: How to Engage Learners with Scenario-based Learning by Hans K
The demand for scenario-based learning (SBL) is growing rapidly. Learners gather information throughout an SBL and create solutions based on what they already know and the information they find. Until recently, creating SBL could be expensive and time-consuming, but this is changing with some new authoring tools. Here’s an overview of the theory behind the method—and some guidelines.
Learning Solutions Magazine: How to Engage Learners with Scenario-based Learning by Hans K
The demand for scenario-based learning (SBL) is growing rapidly. Learners gather information throughout an SBL and create solutions based on what they already know and the information they find. Until recently, creating SBL could be expensive and time-consuming, but this is changing with some new authoring tools. Here’s an overview of the theory behind the method—and some guidelines.
Coursera: University Spotlight: Exploring Art and Music on Coursera
Some people hear the phrase “online education” and think it refers to engineering, programming, math and science courses. If you’ve ever browsed our course list, you’ll notice that we offer a neat group of humanities courses, ranging from history to literature. We’ve also been working with some of the most well-known universities that specialize in the arts and music. In September 2012, we announced that Berklee College of Music would be offering courses like Songwriting and Introduction to Guitar; you can now sign up for those courses, which start on either March 1 or April 22, depending on the class.Included in our recent addition of 29 new universities are California Institute of the Arts and Curtis Institute of Music, two highly ranked institutions that offer students creative courses in subjects like dance and performing arts, history of art and music and digital art. Here’s some more information about the universities: California Insti…
Saylor.org: We Love Resources: Special ME102 App Edition
Our very own David Rose (whom you met yesterday) has been hard at work researching and vetting (read: playing with) mobile apps for integration into our courses. You know, that whole “harnessing technology” thing we like to talk about. The first fruits of his efforts are available in an updated ME102: Mechanics I, and the improvements [...]…