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4 High-Impact Approaches for Increasing Student Engagement in Higher Ed
Student engagement and retention improve when universities take action. Campus beautification and student demographics definitely play a part. A rich learning experience, however, is even more important in helping students finish strong. Many institutions are using...
Profile of Instructional Designers in Higher Education Course Design
Like every other aspect of modern life, higher education is rapidly being transformed by technology. Online enrollments continue to grow even as overall enrollments are in decline. There were more than 6 million students taking at least one online course in the Fall...
Improving the ID/SME Partnership for Effective Online Course Design
Are you facing challenges, such as limited resources and time constraints to create an online course? What about faculty buy-in? Designing an online course involves more than moving textbook content to slides. It also involves understanding how to engage a learner online. Sometimes faculty don’t understand the role and contribution of an instructional designer. IDs work with SMEs to create engaging and interactive online courses. But,…
Improving Students’ Writing and Communication Skills
It is happening: the art of the written word is dying. With the growth of technology and the push to digitize everything, other skills have been pushed aside. Skills like writing have been deemed less valuable, even obsolete. The reality is, however, that writing...
K-12
How to Measure the Success of a New Curriculum
Designing new curriculum is not quite like the adage, “A journey of a thousand steps begins with the first.” Sure, the curriculum designing process has many steps. But at the beginning of designing a new curriculum, the last step is the focus: Measuring its success....
Why Mobile Learning Continues to Grow
Mobile learning is more than a trend, it’s primed to grow. Don’t fret: your investment in eLearning is about to pay off. mLearning is a natural extension of eLearning. Here is why mobile learning primed to take off.
5 Benefits of Developing a Game-Based Course
How can you squeeze creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, decision-making, and risk-taking into your next course? Play with it! Make your next course game-based.
Top eLearning Trends in 2020 You Should Be Aware Of
The redesign is a common thread in these six eLearning trends that will keep courses at peak performance in 2020.
Curriculum Design
Higher Education Learning Trends in 2019
Have you seen what’s trending on Facebook? How about what’s trending on Twitter or Instagram? With seemingly infinite information sources but only finite time, it may be hard to conceive of doing in-depth study of academic subjects. Yet the reality of our...
Four Ways to Include Digital Games in the Classroom
Children love video games. In our increasingly digital world, we can leverage their use for instructional purposes. Here are four tips for educators and curriculum developers to use digital games in the classroom. Games as motivational aids Research has shown that...
6 Best Practices for Math Course Writers
Every high quality math course writer should know these six things!
Benefits of CTE to High School and College-Bound Students
A college education is not for everybody. CTE fulfills a very important purpose.