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5 easy ways to create engaging e-learning courses [Infographic]

Have you ever done things that were fun and easy instead of a really hard and really important thing that you really had to do? You know, like sorting through 10-year-old pictures and reordering them ...

How e-learning can benefit working students

Working students. Aren't they a character? Interrupting classes because they arrive late, skipping classes altogether and affecting everyone in their learning group by not being totally prepared for t...

Gamification in the classroom: small changes and big results [Infographic]

Games are fun; learning is not. Kids could play games for hours on end, without asking for food and holding their bladder for as much as they can. When it comes to doing homework or studying, on the o...

Personalizing the learning experience

Each student has an individual way of learning and their own pace when it comes to addressing different subjects. Wouldn't it be wonderful if teachers could meet all individual learning needs for each...

Transforming the classroom with augmented learning

Learning has evolved to a point where augmented reality (AR) is a possibility. It’s evolved to a point where the environment adapts to learners' needs and as I like to say it the learning process is a...

Can learning be addictive?

The internet can be addicting. People would start a quick search on an interesting topic, read on and find themselves reading more and more on topics totally different from the one which piqued their ...

Bending the rules of the flipped classroom

Flipped classrooms are the bread and butter of e-learning and have defined the education landscape in the past few years or so. But sometimes we still feel there is that sorely-lacking element which c...

Is SCORM still relevant?

I'm positive that at least 70% of the people in the e-learning space created or used at some point a SCORM package, whether it was a full class, a lesson, an assessment, or a simple presentation. SCOR...

Mobile learning: The good and the bad

Everywhere we go, here and there, people always seem to have a mobile device in their hands, be it a smartphone or a tablet. It’s almost a sin not to own a mobile device. Our mobile devices are online...

Motivating students to become self-directed learners

Teachers continually face the challenge of keeping their students engaged and motivated. And let’s face it. Digital learning has lost a bit of the so-called “personal teaching touch” because most of t...

6 Easy ways to make e-learning fun

E-learning, for some, can be boring if they just stick to the “rules”. You know like, not expanding the already-existing e-learning concepts and techniques instructors and educators already know. It c...

Are MOOCs really dead?

MOOCs have been considered for a very long time a great way of learning, because they are useful, diverse, surrounded by communities and mostly free. However, lately MOOCs have faced several challenge...

Crafting a compelling digital story

Everything we do today is somehow digital-based. We often get news updates from the internet. We share photos on social media. Trending topics are discussed on Twitter. Bloggers opine and fill the min...

Helping students in need

Here we are in the e-learning age where students are becoming self-engaged learners and teachers are maximizing whatever digital resources there are for teaching. Almost every school has a well-define...

Must-have features in any LMS

Every online platform has some sort of “feature benchmark” where such a platform is expected to have features to upload this kind of file, save that to a cloud location, or share whatever resource use...

How to deal with students resistant to e-learning

We are in the realm of 21st century learning, where most students are digital natives and expect their teachers to be the same and deliver all class content online, through an interactive e-learning p...

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