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10 best MasterClass Courses That Make The Most Of Your Free Time
Getting one-on-one lessons from legends like Anna Wintour or RuPaul seems like a fever dream—or, at the very least, something that only happens to people who have millions of dollars to spend. Thanks to the MasterClass site, though, we all can get exclusive access to our favorite inspirational leaders, celebrities, chefs and more. Experts from…
The Role of Quantum Computing in Online Education
On this episode of the MarketScale Online Learning Minute, host Brian Runo dives into how quantum computing, the next revolutionary leap forward in computing, could apply to online education. In particular, it can be used to epitomize the connectivism theory and provide personalized learning for each individual, as its not restricted by the capacity…
What Gives Video Games The Edge Over Video For Distance Learning?
Ki Karou is the director of product for ST Math content at MIND Research Institute. Ki previously served as a game and learning designer. Before joining MIND, he founded Beyond Math, a tutoring and academic coaching service based in Los Angeles. He can be reached at kkarou@mindresearch.org. Videos are a popular choice for visual learning…
Six Stories of Six Weeks of Online Education
Spring 2020 was a semester like no other. Over the course of a few weeks, thousands of classes – lectures and seminars, laboratory and performance courses, capstone projects and veterinary clinics – transitioned entirely online. Instructors navigated technical and logistical difficulties, as well as the shifting realities of a global pandemic. But amid the challenges,…
Are Online Courses Hitting the Mark?
One crucial aspect of training employees is ensuring they retain the information in the courses. Companies should also seek out feedback from class takers to improve the content. Brian recommends several tactics to improve comprehension. Setting up a survey post-course for comments by participants can help a company improve their online learning. If those…
Five Ways Online Learning Can Be Better Than In-Person Learning
The University of Cambridge has announced that all lectures will be offered online for the academic year beginning in October 2020. Other UK universities are expected to adopt similar policies, adopting a format which blends online learning with more traditional teaching. The announcement has disappointed and worried students, who are concerned about the potentially poor…
AT&T Awards 8 Distance Learning and 5G Startups in its 2020 Aspire Accelerator Class
Companies in this year’s Aspire Accelerator class are focused on everything from building applications to help students develop social-emotional skills, to teaching science through online gaming, to increasing engagement through virtual reality. All 8 startups in this year’s $1 Million Skills Building Challenge are working on unique solutions during this unprecedented moment in education. With…
Closing the Homework Gap Through Extended, Secure Wifi Access
The difficulty students experience completing homework without sufficient access to the internet is not a new issue, but one that many people understand at a whole new level due to the current pandemic. Jason Claybrook, Head of Sales and Marketing at Aura Wireless, Jeff Wolfe, Solutions Architect, at SonicWall, Loren Wiege, Director, Competitive Global…
Future of E-Learning: How to Perform Instructional Interventions While Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic
Teachers are perceptive. They know which of their students need a little boost when doing equations or who will spend extra time with a book. That’s become a much taller task, however, with education forced out of the classroom and onto the web because of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of individual instructional interventions, school-wide…
The Harsh Questions We Must Start Asking in Education
Elliott Levine is Chief Academic Officer for STS Education, a national educational technology services firm, and Chief Product Officer for Healthy Player ONE, software to combat harassment and injuries in esports. Formerly the first Distinguished Technologist in Education in Silicon Valley, Elliott is a past school district official, adjunct professor, columnist and sought-after keynote speaker in the…
Universal Solutions To A Global Crisis: Remote Possibilities
As a company that serves 4.5 million educators and 45 million students in 140 countries and territories around the world, Discovery Education has been playing a pivotal role in the education industry’s response to the pandemic. In this conversation with Scott Kinney, Discovery’s President of K-12 Education, Remote Possibilities host Kevin Hogan discusses the immediate…
Remote Learning Brings Attention to the Usefulness of the Long Lecture
With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options, educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. Much of this reflection is likely to take place within the often siloed communities of practice in…
Indonesia EdTech And COVID-19
Desperate to find a silver lining in the COVID-19 madness? Take a look at this recent report posted by the World Bank about edtech efforts in Indonesia. According to the authors Noah Yarrow and Riaz Bhardwaj. “Our recently published EdTech landscape survey for Indonesia reveals that the sector here is starting to catch up with…
How to Influence People Without Being Manipulative: Quicksilver
As the old adage goes: “In business as in life, you’re always selling.” This is certainly true for corporate learning professionals who need to influence others to change their behaviors to improve business performance. But, how do you influence others without being manipulative? On today’s video episode of Quicksilver: A Behind the Scenes Look…
COVID and Crisis Management in the World of Chiropractic Colleges: I Don’t Care
This week host Kevin Stevenson was joined by Dan Armstrong, DC, chiropractor and instructor at Parker University, one of America’s largest chiropractic colleges located in Dallas. Dr. Armstrong talks about chiropractic care in the COVID world. We also discuss how Parker used the devastating tornado that hit Dallas last October to refine its crisis…
A Farewell To EdTech? Remote Possibilities
When Din Heiman, SVP of Strategy at Renaissance Learning, first posted his thoughts on the edtech industry’s responsibility to respond to the current education crisis, he expected to spark a conversation. 20,000 LinkedIn views later, his provocative thoughts, plus the contributions from others, have created a blueprint for future remote learning success. Marketscale contributor…
Top 5 Disruptive EdTech Trends of 2020
Like all other industries, technological revolutions will disrupt the education sector too in 2020 and the upcoming years. Before moving ahead to the trends, let’s talk about the technologies which will influence these EdTech trends. AI- to build a bridge between learning and teaching IoT (Internet of Things)- for data collection Big Data- for finding…
Online Learning Minute: Elevating Your Graphic Design Skills with Behance
On this episode of MarketScale’s Online Learning Minute, host Brian Runo explores how even free courses, particularly in the area of graphic design, can deliver tremendous value. “[Graphic design] is one of the fields where there’s always something new to learn, and it’s also one of the fields where the majority of work can…
How COVID-19 Will Force Education Into The Future
This post originally appeared on the ASCD website. Sean Slade is the Senior Director of Global Outreach at ASCD, focusing on promoting and expanding the ASCD Whole Child approach across the United States and globally. Look for his interview on an upcoming episode of Remote Possibilities. In decades to come, the first months of 2020…
Yale’s Most Popular Class Is Now Available Free Online
In the spring of 2018, the Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos unveiled a new course, Psychology and the Good Life. The subject was happiness. Santos’s course was a blend of abstract and concrete. It combined positive psychology with the real-life applications of behavioral science. It debunked popular notions of what makes people happy (like the…
Winners of the 2020 CODiE Education Technology Awards Announced
Scroll below for details. Or if you want the suspense and a peek inside the homes of some edtech luminaries, follow along for the quarantined presentations. Best Administrative Solution Abre, Abre Best Coding & Computational Thinking Solution SPIKE Prime, LEGO Education Best Collaborative Community Solution for Educators ParentSquare, ParentSquare Best College & Career Readiness Solution…
Upskill with Free Online Learning Courses
Staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many some extra time. Now is a great opportunity for anyone to participate in online learning. By taking online courses, individuals have the chance to upskill themselves, adding new skillsets to their repertoire. These new skills could be useful in a current or future position. When…
The Changing Market for Postsecondary Education
We know all too well that the current virus pandemic is impacting enrollments in the near term, but this is temporary — the pandemic will pass. It will take months, perhaps even a year or two, but this threat will be behind us. We will be wiser and, I hope, better prepared for such disasters…
Remote Possibilities: A New EdTech Podcast
In the premiere episode of Remote Possibilities, host Kevin Hogan talks with Scrum master and remote learning veteran David Prior about, what else, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the business of professional training. Prior discusses the inherent disadvantages and some surprising advantages this incredible disruption has caused and what it might mean…
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