According to a 2013 poll, 11 percent of business leaders think the workforce has prepared graduates. This doubt is traceable to the serious skills gap for in-demand jobs. A 2016 PayScale survey revealed that graduates lacked crucial workforce skills. These skills include public speaking, writing skill and data analysis. Therefore, it is vital for your…
Like the tortoise and the hare, students move at different paces. Some learners pick up information quickly, while others take more time to grasp complicated concepts. Adaptive learning — a method which utilizes technology and provides students with customized learning programs [1] — aims to solve this problem. It’s proved popular in both the classroom…
Standardized curriculums get a bad rap from those who value the spontaneity and flexibility of an impromptu teaching style, but standardization benefits online students. The high level of organization and thoughtful production of course material can make the classroom experience more enjoyable and remove barriers to online learning. Here are a few best practices to…
Even though the impending end-of-life decision by Adobe for the rich interactive media tool Adobe Flash means that most content providers and learning developers will need to migrate to a different platform, and in most cases find a Flash to HTML5 conversion solution, there are a number of reasons that HTML5 should be the authoring…
Although online learning has introduced us to a world of infinite information, it still has its challenges. While online learning helps simplify the learning process, other problems may arise in their place. Are you looking for ways to contest some of the most common online learning challenges? The following is an overview of four online…
According to Education Next, more than 50 percent of freshman in the United States are ineligible for university level courses and must take some form of remediation. Higher learning remediation is necessary for several reasons. Sometimes students in high school don’t receive or aren’t able to finish the courses necessary to prepare them for college.…
According to a 2015 survey from the Pew Research Center, jobs requiring average or above-average social and analytical skills experienced a growth in employment and wages ranging from 77 to 83 percent. Conversely, occupations depending upon v manual labor skills experienced an employment/wage increase of only 18 percent during the same period. There’s no question…
We’ve all heard it: You can’t teach old dogs new tricks. According to researchers at Dartmouth University, that’s not quite true. It seems science bears out the fallacy of that old adage: You can teach old dogs new tricks. The study, done by graduate student Alex Schelgel and published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,…
Why e-Learning? “Online learning is not the next big thing, it is the now big thing.” – Donna J. Abernathy Educators worldwide are using digital learning tools and e-Learning resources to harness the benefits of technology to stimulate learning. Digital products such as instructional videos and game-based e-Learning solutions can meet an educator’s goal to…
Blended learning, simply put, combines the best of personal instruction and online material to help the student learn better. Balanced while flipping and rotating All blended models incorporate online learning, whether in a classroom, school computer lab, or online away from the learning center, and face-to-face instruction with teacher interaction and group collaboration. In general,…