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Livia Bran

Livia Bran

Livia is the Head of Content at CYPHER LEARNING. She writes about edtech, workplace learning, knowledge entrepreneurship, and other e-learning-related topics.

Will AI replace teachers?

Will AI replace teachers? This was the subject at a plenary debate at the OEB conference just last December. I was intrigued. What arguments would the four expert speakers bring to the table? Artifici...

6 Awesome AR apps for the classroom

Augmented Reality is awesome. Even though AR technology is not new, it seems it really started to spread lately. Its uses are as varied as the leaves in the Amazonian forest, and more and more people ...

7 e-learning trends for educational institutions in 2017

2016 so far has been a very challenging year, yet also very rewarding. We should all be thankful for all the good things that happened, and hopeful that the next year we'll witness even more of them. ...

Two ways to integrate visual storytelling in K-12 instruction

This piece originally appeared on edtechdigest.com. The first pop-up children's book I ever touched was Little Red Riding Hood. I was a high school senior and I had thought I was over the fairy tales ...

Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 2]

In the last week's post I promised to address exactly 10 BYOD concerns that keep schools reluctant to allowing students to use their mobile devices in the classroom. But I only delivered five, so this...

Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]

BYOD at school is more than the latest buzz phrase you hear at every corner of the teacher's rooms or along school hallways. It's really happening. More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow ...

Why we should leave behind the cookie-cutter education

This post has been updated on April 30, 2020. Whenever my mom made cookies when I was a little kid, I could barely wait for them to come out of the oven. My mom’s cookies were simply delicious. She ha...

How to create beautiful online courses: layout

A small thing can pass by unnoticed. But many small things can become the equivalent of a really large one. You may not notice — or give too much credit to — a typo that got its way into your written ...

How to create beautiful online courses: fonts

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but all eyes are connected to a brain, which works the same in all humans. I've always been fascinated by the subtlety of fonts in any written piece. At ...

How to create beautiful online courses: colors

Have you ever bought something not because you really needed it, nor because it offered much value to you, but simply because it had a nice packaging? Don't be ashamed if you did; you're not the only ...

4 Design principles to keep in mind when creating online courses

This post has been updated on August 19, 2020. Everyone likes beautiful things. Our human brain is wired to give priority to visually appealing, eye-catchy things over less than beautiful ones. This s...

Smart classroom furniture for the 21st century students

We're 16 years into the new millennium, yet the standard classroom seems to be stuck into a long-gone past. Educational institutions still have to deal with a lot of bureaucracy. Even though most teac...

Can Pokemon Go be part of the classroom?

I was strolling in a park the other day and just when I got distracted by a colorful ice cream truck and was wondering if I should resist the sweet temptation, a sudden pain pulled me right back into ...

Is a learning portal different from an LMS?

It isn't, really. But it is. It's a fine line between them. While both terms are often used interchangeable, there are situations when learning management system is a better choice of words than learn...

Proving LMS ROI: Is an LMS a worthy investment?

This post has been updated on October 23 2018. A learning management system is a complex software that is supposed to support an educational institution in achieving its scope: that of educating stude...

Measuring success of online education [Infographic]

Success. What a fine idea. Everyone wants to be successful. Yet when you ask people to define success, you get a gazillion of different answers. Success just means different things to different people...

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