One service available to eCollege Educational Partners is a Course Review, provided by the Academic Training and Consulting Team. As a part of a course review, the team examines a course from a best practice perspective, evaluating things like readability, opportunities for student engagement, flow of content, and use of course tools. In reviewing courses over the past few [...]
I had a conversation about online business programs with several hiring managers last week and the discussion turned to a comparison of online versus traditional brick and mortar programs. One business owner expressed a concern about not having any idea what took place in the online classroom. I explained that everything online is documented so [...]
EducationTube: If you checked out the Educator’s Voice Tip last month, you saw how to upload a YouTube video into your course. We heard several comments from teachers about it. Mostly we heard cheers and gratitude, but we also got a chunk of instructor’s who said, “why?”
Let’s see if I can answer the “why” [...]
It is commonly accepted as a truism in educational settings that individuals (students or trainees in our case) have different “learning styles.” A key here, most practitioners in the field note, is that the learning style employed at any given time is a “preference” of the individual student. Practitioners also tend to agree that most [...]