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What Is Quantified Self And How Does It Fit Into Your L&D Strategy?
Can Quantified Self Affect Your L&D Program?
The term “quantified self” refers to the use of technology to collect data about our life, like health and workout metrics. If you need an example, just look…
Rachel Foakes obituary
My friend Rachel Foakes, who has died unexpectedly aged 53, was a writer of education books, a committed activist and a Labour town councillor.Over the course of her 30-year career, Rachel wrote more than 80 books, reaching tens of…
Map Of The Future: How Experiential Learning Will Give Your Training A Future Edge
Why Experiential Learning Is The Way Forward
For many of us, long before the training manuals and PowerPoint handouts, we learned mostly from what we lived through each day: that is, from our experiences.…
‘They’d never seen sliced bread’: how a tiny film about Himalayan yak-herders conquered the world
It took eight days for Pawo Choyning Dorji to trek up to the location of his debut film, a settlement of 56 people so high in the Himalayas that it had no communication with the world below. Everything his 35-strong crew might need for the…
9 Expectations Your Authoring Tool Might Need To Meet And How Some Tools Knock It Out Of The Park
Does Your Authoring Tool Match Your Expectations?
Of course, the question of whether your authoring tool will meet or exceed expectations will depend on who you are and what you need.
Topics are grouped…
eLearning Industry’s Guest Author Article Showcase [March 2023]
Read Up On The Latest Industry Trends And Technologies
eLearning Industry publishes articles every day that represent a diverse range of voices, backgrounds, and experiences. You’ll find topics that cover…
16 Questions To Help Students Brainstorm Project-Based Learning
by Terry Heick
We’ve written about inquiry-based learning in the past, as well as its mother project-based learning, and its more complex cousin self-directed learning.
So it made sense to take a look at challenge-based learning–the…
What parents and educators need to know about teens’ pornography and sexting experiences at school
Three out of four teenagers have seen online pornography – often before they even became a teenager. That’s according to a new report from Common Sense Media that examines the role pornography plays in the lives of today’s youth.
Some…
3 years since the pandemic wrecked attendance, kids still aren’t showing up to school
And Issac is not alone. Before the pandemic, about 8 million U.S. students were considered chronically absent, according to the research group Attendance Works. That’s when a student misses 10% or more of the school year. By spring 2022,…
How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?
“Funding is progressive, but it’s not progressive enough” to provide an equal opportunity for all students, said Jesse Levin, an economist at the American Institutes for Research and lead author of the study.
According to the researchers’…