apex award 2019

Focus EduVation wins APEX 2019 Award of Excellence for Custom Learning – Best Use of Story Based Learning

Focus EduVation, an industry leader in the design and development of custom content for online programs offered by colleges and universities, has been awarded the APEX 2019 Grand Award of Excellence in the Electronic Media category for the Best Use of Story-Based Learning.  APEX 2019 — the 31st Annual Awards for Publication Excellence — is…

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Decision Based Games

How Gaming Might Be the Solution to Increasing Student Retention

While elearning has been on the rise in recent years, there are still many challenges that the online education world faces, often based on student retention. Between the busy schedules of people who often choose to pursue a degree online to maintaining the motivation to keep up with lessons, there is often a sharp attrition…

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Focus EduVation

A Focused Look at ADDIE

Focus Eduvation is taking a look at the ADDIE instructional model. We are always exploring how learning theory and motivation can be applied to the instructional process to make it more engaging and practical for diverse learning audiences. Focus Eduvation is taking a look at the ADDIE instructional model. We are always exploring how learning theory and motivation can be applied to the instructional process to make it more engaging and practical for diverse learning audiences.

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Making Individualized Connections with Online Students

As an educator, you are trying to provide students with the best educational experience, whether it be online or “in-seat.” Think of things you do in your real-life courses and how they can be translated into digital format. Do not be afraid to experiment. In the absence of meeting your students in a face to…

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Focus EduVation

The 10 Gold Standards of Ensuring Online Course Quality

Online courses represent some of the most accessible and potentially comprehensive learning available. Whether they come in the form of free online courses or classes from a university, online learning is extremely popular. However, online classes are meant to be more than assignments and reading without interaction; they need to be personal. Taking these steps…

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How Personalized and Adaptive Learning Creates Data-Driven Value in an Institution

One of the most common issues faced by learners in online courses is a lack of engagement and personalized learning. To many learners the digital classroom can feel impersonal, and they may not receive as much from the instruction as they would in a real classroom environment. Because of this many educational institutions in the…

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Peer Groups

The Importance of Building Better Student Bonding with Higher Quality Ethics Courses

While there is much focus on the bonding relationship between student and teacher in higher learning institutions, there seems to be less focus on bonding between students. The former, of course, is just as important as the later, but the later seems to be largely ignored as a whole. Why? Because learning institutions generally leave…

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Evolution Online Learning

Uniting eLearning and Faculty Development for Online Deployment

Quality instruction is one of the biggest complaints across a variety of higher education institutions. Highly skilled professionals often have a unique skill set that may not include the ability to pass on information in a traditional learning environment. This challenge is magnified by online learning environments, which tend to reduce the amount of one-on-one…

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Focus EduVation

How Does Online Instruction Measure Up to Face-to-Face

Online instruction is becoming increasingly popular, but can it measure up to face-to-face teaching in terms of quality? While there are some important differences between online and face-to-face instruction, both modes of teaching are able to deliver a high-quality learning experience to students. Here are some of the key differences between the two types of…

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