“Learn from your mistakes” is a common adage. How does it apply to e-learning? Mistakes are a part of learning. If your learners never make a mistake, chances are the material wasn’t sufficiently advanced or challenging enough. And yet, in spite of this, lessons which are designed to help students learn from errors are underutilized…
Coupons can be a blessing and a curse. Here’s the right way to use them in your sales strategy. Sales are slow, and you’re looking for a good way to close a few more to bring up your revenue for the month. You’re looking at your options, and one choice seems obvious: offer a discount!…
How to use instructional design to create a more effective learning environment. We all want to create the best possible course to offer our learners. But with so many options available and so much material to cover, many online instructors quickly feel in over their heads. They thought they knew what they wanted to say,…
If you want to make money selling online courses, follow these steps. You want to start an online business where you sell online courses, but you don’t know where to start. There’s no shortage of information out there, and digging through it all can be overwhelming. Fortunately, you’re in luck! If you’re excited about online…
Simply put: Moodle needs to sell itself better. Every now and again I like to revisit Moodle to see how they are coming along with development. The truth is that Moodle acted as an inspiration for our own open-source learning management system. Deep down I am always hoping for it to do well. It has…
How to avoid browbeating your learners by turning psychology to your advantage. In many ways, learning is all about psychology. It’s about finding ways to introduce ideas to ourselves in ways that will stick and be memorable. But for many of us, applying psychological principles to course design isn’t an obvious first step. After all,…
Online education is popular. So why do so many learners drop out? Enrollment in online education continues to rise, with more and more learners each year signing up as part of their college program, for professional training, or simply for personal fulfillment. Yet despite its popularity, many learners fail to complete their courses. And this…
Skill-based online learning helps learners put their knowledge to use. Have you ever considered the difference between a course that teaches knowledge versus one that teaches skill? For most of us, the distinction may not seem all that important, but it actually has a significant impact on how we teach an online class. Some courses…
Quizzing isn’t just about assessment. It also helps build retention and strengthen recall. Quizzes are an essential component of any online course. And by “quizzes,” I mean something distinctly different from a midterm or final exam. The purpose of exams is usually to assess learner understanding, quizzes can be viewed as more of a study…
How can learners collaborate more effectively online? It’s one thing to ask your learners to work together on a group project. But logistics for many online learners are quite another matter. Unlike in a classroom situation, learners have no set time when they expect to all be in the same room together to coordinate. In…
Older generations are increasingly interested in online courses. What about yours? There’s an obvious distinction in online education between adult learners and K-12 learners. Children and adolescents tend to take classes as a mandatory part of their school program, or (if they’re electives) as part of their process of self-discovery. Meanwhile, adults usually approach online…
It is a new year and that means new goals, both professionally and personally. As you start to think about what you want to accomplish in your career, why not consider incorporating distance learning in some capacity? As the infographic above points out, education often can result in higher pay in your field. A graduate…
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When we create courses we do so in hopes of not only teaching, but in providing people with new skills or knowledge that they can use in daily life. I don’t know about you, but whenever I take a course I am looking to get something practical out of it that I can use to…
If you are a teacher, why not use WordPress to supplement your classroom? Many schools already have a learning management system in place, but the truth is that they are really clunky and no one really wants to use them. Because of this, it isn’t uncommon for teachers to set up their own classroom-specific sites…
WordPress has come a long way since its inception as primarily a blogging platform. WordPress still makes for an excellent blog, but it does a lot of other things quite well too! Things like e-commerce, event management, membership sites, and learning management to name a few. It is because of this flexibility that we see…
Nowadays we hear a lot about gamification, and nearly 99% of the time it is in the context of online courses. And why shouldn’t it be? Technology has made it possible to incorporate some really neat gamification elements inside digital courses. You can have badges flying on the screen, points being awarded, leaderboards, unlocked achievements,…
The evolution of online learning is in full force. Advances in the devices we use on a day-to-day basis are influencing how we learn. Our expectations are shaped by our experiences interacting with these applications. The online learning space has always been one to adapt to change. The recent rise in mobile learning is a…
For many people the thought of using “games” in a classroom environment seems like it would be more of a distraction than anything else. I can recall times during grade school when we would have a classroom oriented game and things would get out of hand quickly. Some children would become way too competitive, others…
WordPress has come quite a long way since it first started out as a basic content management system with the sole purpose of being a blogging platform. Looking at the landscape today and it’s quite incredible all of the different ways WordPress is being used. From e-commerce to education, the platform’s flexibility shines. Given that LearnDash…
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