Recent research uncovered just a handful of distinct elements that set great online teaching apart from the merely good. More...
Workers are taking courses online to communicate better off-line—here’s why
It may sound counter-intuitive, but today workers are turning to online courses to improve their off-line communication abilities. According to a recent analysis by LinkedIn Learning, the No. 1 topic that learners took the most courses in this year was communication. More...
Classroom in a Pocket? Creating a Mobile eLearning Environment
Classroom in a pocket? That’s right. It also means that students have in their hands, all the textbooks they might need, all the information related to their courses and even a means to interpersonal contact with their lecturers and other students. More...
5 Easy Mistakes to Make When Collecting Feedback for Your Online Course
Getting feedback from learners about your online course is important. Feedback from course goers tells you what you can do to improve the course for future students. More...
6 Reasons Why eLearning Programs May Fail, Plus Tips to Avoid Failure
Many eLearning courses offered today are not doing very well, mostly because the course designers have not adjusted to the demands of modern learners. More...
US: First-year online pathway program launched
By Kerrie Kennedy. Three US institutions have joined forces with online course provider StraighterLine and education management business Campus3 to create a ‘First-Year Online Value’ program that allows international students to start their studies in their home country while waiting for a visa. More...
New York Times Enters Distance Learning Market
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New York Times Enters Distance Learning Market
The new York Times is partnering with several colleges to provide single-seminar and multiple-session online courses. The cousres - which won't be cheap - will access customized content packages. "These packages will provide access to special packages of content - summaries of articles, interactive maps, video, audio, graphs - on a wide range of topics (the European Union, nanotechnology and so forth)." More...
Aplic.io targets 100,000 users in 2020
By Viggo Stacey. Online higher education program placement organisation Aplic.io has announced its next phase will focus on peer-to-peer graduate-student mentorship as it aims to become the “largest global student network”. More...
Harrow School Online set to launch in 2020
By Viggo Stacey. The UK’s Harrow School has announced it will launch a “virtual sixth form” to teach A-levels online from September 2020. More...
2U announces its first online undergrad degree
By Viggo Stacey. Edtech provider 2U marked its entrance into the undergraduate degree market as it teamed up with the London School of Economics and Political Science to offer a Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Business Analytics. More...