Creating Accessible Online Content for all Learners
This post was written by a member of the Focus EduVation staff.
The Pedagogical Benefits of Fun: Explorations in Gamified Learning
Video games for learning and teaching offer a great chance to boost overall student engagement. It also presents a potential to get students’ attention. This is important for students who find focusing a challenge. However, knowing how to successfully combining the fun part of games with learning materials is tricky. Well-designed games attract players into…
4 Challenges Related to Online Learning and How to Solve Them
Although online learning has introduced us to a world of infinite information, it still has its challenges. While online learning helps simplify the learning process, other problems may arise in their place. Are you looking for ways to contest some of the most common online learning challenges? The following is an overview of four online…
Creative Ways of Using Lifelong Learning Opportunities at Work
There was a time when graduation day signaled the end of an educational journey, but today’s changing workplace environment means that learning is a continuous process (Real Business). Having a culture of lifelong learning in an organization brings benefits for the employer as well as the employee as the continual development results in motivated staff…
Enhance Learning Outcomes With Online Program Management
Online program management (OPM), the partial or complete act of bringing an academic or training program online, can increase the number of users that complete the program. It can also motivate students or participants to be more involved with program activities. OPM can help make a program more social and more up-to-date.
How Quality Instructional Design Helps Increase Engagement, Retention and Revenue
Your approach to instructional design can influence your students’ experience. This influence is direct. It can impact students’ engagement level with your content. It can even determine whether they continue the course. Students who quit their courses negatively impact your revenue. So it’s easy to see why quality instructional design is important in your online…
Demystifying Online Program Management
Online program management is perhaps one of the hottest topics in higher education technology today, but it’s also somewhat poorly understood. The term Online Program Management, OPM, can be used to describe the process, technology and providers associated with web-based higher education delivery. This analysis uses industry analyst Phil Hill’s definition: “organizations (mostly for-profit companies,…