October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Working Moms Get Ahead Using Online Education
The following top online universities offer flexible, quick and well-respected online degree programs for working moms. You can receive free information from each university regarding tuition cost, financial aid, course availability and graduation time by filling out their short “Request Info” forms: Kaplan University, University of Phoenix, AIU, Colorado [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
(This article was published previously on sixslides.com, and is the first in a series of articles on the subject posted there. My sixslides site also features daily research clippings and commentary, weekly video posts, and stories and commentary in our unique Six Slides format.)
Introduction
There has been significant buzz over the last few days about [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Drexel Online Launches New Library and Information Science Concentrations to Increase Educational Career Options for Librarians
Drexel University Online, a pioneer in distance education, has increased its degree offerings with the addition of three new concentrations within the Master’s in Library and Information Science program: Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management, School Library Media, and Youth Services. [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
California university teaches on campus in Second Life
San José State University has opened a campus in the virtual world of Second Life that spans 16 digital acres and was created to add a greater social experience to online education. By using avatar-based students and educators, teachers hope to improve the task of distance learning. — [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
More laws, collaboration required for online safety
Washington state’s attorney general is only half joking when he suggests that perhaps sites like Facebook and MySpace should require members to use a credit card to sign up for access as a way to prove their identity. “We need good age- and identity-verification technology so that it’s much [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Last night I attended an award ceremony for the UK National Training Awards and was delighted to see one of my blended learning designs for the child development charity Plan International recognised with a national award. The Plan Certificate in Management, a one-year programme for middle and senior managers around the world, was designed in [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
This posting is a rewrite. The original got overwritten by accident, so please accept my apologies if this version isn’t written with as much enthusiasm as the first! Why did I bother with this rewrite? Well, because I couldn’t have synchronous e-learning myths #2 and #3 but no #1.
Last Friday I attended the eLearning Network’s [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World. The list of authors represents a blogging who’s who, with contributions from Jane Hart, Tony Karrer, Michele Martin, Mark Oehlert, Sanjay Parker, Brent Schlenker, and Will Thalheimer.
As usual with Guild reports, there’s a good overall response, [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is “I’m interested in a career in e-learning. What should I do first?”
My first recommendation would be to decide where it is that you see yourself fitting into the e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
I’ve enjoyed browsing through Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin (Penguin, 2008). Dan makes the point convincingly that you can clarify a problem or sell an idea more effectively with a simple, hand-drawn picture than you can with a any number of words. And Dan demonstrates that you don’t have to be an artist, [...]
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