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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? What was happening?

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The Features And Benefits Of The XP-Pen Drawing Tablet In The Classroom

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Further, 1:1 learning environments (where each student has access to a personal electronic device) are tied to positive outcomes like increased student engagement , more personalized learning experiences, and improved communication between students and teachers. The Tools Of Mobile Learning.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

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The vision was partly to be mobile. We were thinking about ways in which we could be portable and mobile, and that means really having a location-independent business from which we need to replace my salary. The first year I put my courses [on Udemy, an online course market], I had about 12 hours worth of content.

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Online Education: Will it Make Us Smarter? #SXSWedu

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Building learning content that students can access on their own. Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. Adult learners adding to skill sets or learning about hobbies. Students like the on demand aspects of the learning. What is on the horizon for building the online learning space?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. ” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare.