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In this two-part series, we will explore best practices for writing at every stage in the instructional design process. Every stage of the instructional design process involves writing.

Zoom has introduced several new features for education users of its Chat and Meetings functions, fulfilling the most popular requests from teachers and administrators on its platform, the company announced today.

The Google Admin console can help K–12 IT teams better manage their Chromebook fleets.

Student engagement includes much more than course participation--learn how different technologies can help your institution's engagement

Want to improve "how teachers interact with students in online learning? One simple remedy seems, well, almost too simple.

Give teachers two screens."

This article covers the basics of Instructional Design that should be considered when designing content. Download the eBook: Instructional Design 101.

If you’ve been reading my columns these last 10 months (and if so, thank you!) you’ll have noticed that I’m on a quest to identify the sources of dull eLearning. You would think that since eLearning will soon enter its third decade, we would have found the formula for better online training by now.

"MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. But what is their legacy on campuses?"

Blended learning has proven itself as not only a teaching strategy that allows greater flexibility, but one that is more effective than traditional methods.

If you go back to the first days of the COVID crisis, when campuses across the country were shutting down, college students weren’t very happy with emergency online learning. Surveys conducted then showed deep dissatisfaction, with as many as 70 percent saying they didn’t like it.

Low grades for remote instruction persisted for months. As the nation struggled under one of the worst public health threats in centuries, emergency instruction proceeded as the only viable way to keep higher education going, even though so few students liked it.

Since then, things have taken a surprising turn. Today, 70 percent of college students give online and hybrid learning a thumbs-up.

Educational videos are one of the most popular and widespread types of content among all video materials. According to a 2021 TechSmith report, 83% of respondents preferred accessing information through video content rather than text or audio. Videos are convenient and useful to the audience, as people perceive this particular way of presenting information better than text. There are different formats of instructional videos, and they are all suitable for different types of storytelling.

Like many parents and guardians, I felt unprepared to take over the day-to-day management of my household’s learning during the pandemic. Despite being involved in online education for over a decade—first as the founding president of Khan Academy, and now as the product and UX director of Google for Education—I wasn’t ready for the challenges of this past year.

Before going ahead to the main topic of today, which is the effect of interactive learning content on eLearning, let me start by talking about what the term "interaction" really means.

This guide will help you calculate costs on developing an online course and plan ahead. Budgeting early will save you from unpleasant surprises and costs.

You know you want to go micro, and you even have some ideas for how to isolate your content into one or more bite-sized pieces. But now what? A common misconception is that microlearning is always video—or always eLearning—but you should think more broadly.

How do you know what shorter form, right-fit content is right for your situation? Here, we’ll share the five key formats for microlearning and situations when each would be most effective.

Learning does not start and stop with the training session. You have to take care of all the stages of learning transfer: before, during, and after training.

"Virtual schools continued to under-perform academically, including in comparison to blended schools. Overall, 36.4 percent of full-time virtual schools and 43.1 percent of blended schools received acceptable performance ratings."

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – JULY 9, 2018 – Grad School Hub, a website that provides information for finding the best universities to pursue a higher education degree, has ranked UTRGV’s online EdD in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Educational Technology program third in the nation, behind Oklahoma State and top-ranked University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Cheating has been studied extensively for decades and yet continues to be a serious problem in higher education. This collection breaks down key research findings to explain: whether cheating has increased, why students cheat, the behaviors students consider cheating, and what faculty can do to deter cheating.