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RoundtablesQuick take: Does your institution teach all students? Promoting accessibility in digital environments, ensuring all course interactions and online teaching are accessible to learners of all abilities, is the next big challenge for educational institutions in order to offer equal opportunities.
InterviewsQuick Take: This governmental institution has successfully trained over 68,000 public officials on the government’s new accounting scheme.
Interviews“I attribute my love for accessibility to my parents. My parents were both deaf and they were both educators. They both taught in middle and high school at the Missouri School for the Deaf. Interestingly enough, they also impacted other…
InterviewsLucy Greco: “I am blind and visually impaired, I have been since birth. And very early on, I discovered how much more I could do using assistive technologies. When I was in grade school, I was given access to a…
Customer snapshotQuick Take: In a country with a predominantly rural population, even adults who had previously abandoned their studies found a chance to continue to pursue a career thanks to distance education.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: Few universities teach their students basic abilities for their future career, such as how to find a job before graduating. Thus, these abilities become purely empirical knowledge.
InterviewsQuick Take: Students’ success depends on many factors, including a good teacher-student relationship, suitable technologies and curricular design. The proper combination of all factors leads to a better alignment of students’ goals and institutions’ methodologies.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: “Project Passion” provides students with laboratory experiences and a guide with wide online support, which allows them to develop their own structure and approach more efficiently.
InterviewsQuick Take: Jonathan Bergmann is a Pioneer in the flipped classroom model, which aims to ‘flip’ the classroom dynamic by turning students into active participants and teachers into observers and guides.
Expert AnalysisQuick take: Rather than a way of punishing students, plagiarism prevention technology can be a powerful tool to teach them proper citation and how to improve their original writing.
InterviewsQuick Take: Dr. Jill Biden explains the importance of community colleges as an engine of American economy and as a source of improvement for US citizens’ skills.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: Using online resources allowed this South African university to continue its classes in spite of the massive student protests in the country. Thus, technology provided a solution to this social issue that would otherwise hinder students’ academic development.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: The use of learning technologies, such as an online instructor, allows to optimize teacher-student communication and create a perfect space for online participation and interaction.
ReviewsPortland, Oregon, United States There are more than 15 Laureate International Universities campuses across Europe, imparting courses in 8 languages. This poses numerous challenges when running and maintaining an LMS in different institutions. One challenge is providing support materials to…
InterviewsActive Blended Learning
Customer snapshotKeele, United Kingdom In order for both students and teachers to make the best use of the resources offered by an LMS, not only should educational content be shared within the platform, the user experience should also be considered. This…
Customer snapshotNew Castle, DE, United States Most people in industries around the world will tell you that video is the present and the future. Industries like advertising, journalism, entertainment, and even education are embracing the video format to completely transform their…
Expert AnalysisIn Asia’s current era of education reform, institutions increasingly pilot Outcomes-Based or Competency-Based Education models. The LMS plays a critical role in this pivot as today’s digital systems have the capacity to provide tools to activate pedagogy; organize assessment and…
Customer snapshotMelbourne, Australia For Dr. Kulari Lokuge, Associate Director of eLearning at Monash College, the pedagogical approach taken by the Central eLearning Team (CeLT) has allowed them to support the delivery of high quality pre-university courses. The creation of professional development…
Customer snapshotDigital Innovation: 7 reasons Nossal High School is different from the rest and leading the way for schools in the future
Customer snapshotHelsinki, Finland Pedagogy and teaching methods are being modernized over time, an example of which is ‘Autokoululiitto‘, an association of driving schools that has revolutionized the way driving is learned in Finland. Harri Keski-Rekilä, Training consultant at Finnish Driving Schools…
Customer snapshotCopenhaguen, Denmark The decision to adopt a digital platform as a new training method promises to bring future graduates closer to the career they want. Copenhagen Business Academy is Denmark’s largest business academy. A few months ago, this academic institution…
InterviewsMiami, FL, United States Open English and NextU are two educational platforms that became successful cases for incorporating new learning technologies and by bringing different generations close to new digital methodologies. Thanks to the strategies implemented by Open English and…
Customer snapshotPortland – OR, United States Online learning environments can be synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous online collaboration tools remove the distance or location. Asynchronous collaboration minimizes both location and time as barriers to working and learning together. It has a huge…
Customer snapshotManila, Philippines The Internet might seem like something that has been around forever. How did people live without it? How did they communicate? How did students do their homework? Interestingly, in some remote provinces in the Philippines, the Internet is…
Customer snapshotSydney, Australia It’s 2016 and technology is changing all areas of life. The Pope and the Queen of England use Twitter and if that’s the case, it’s certainly a viable proposition to use E-Learning to learn about Christianity and spirituality….
Customer snapshotSydney, Australia Blackboard is supporting one of Australia’s largest health care providers, Primary Health Care, deliver ongoing education to its cohort of general practitioners and specialists. By offering unlimited access to courses and learning materials, Blackboard is helping Primary’s health…
InterviewsBarcelona, Spain We spoke with Francesc Busquets, Online Services Coordinator and the person in charge of the Agora-Moodle project in the Catalonia Education Department, the body responsible for education policies in the non-university sphere in this autonomous community. How does…
Expert AnalysisMexico City, Mexico The Mexican automobile industry is quickly becoming one of the most thriving industries on the continent and currently employs around 500,000 technicians. A significant increase in production is envisaged by 2020, and preparations are already being made…
Expert AnalysisNew York, NY, United States Many people, even those involved in the online education industry, are unaware that its origins date back to 1960. The first computerized eLearning system to be designed and built was called PLATO (Programmed Logic for…
Customer snapshotSingapore, Singapore Moving Forward with ELearning Today, companies understand that managing human talent increases their productivity levels. Personnel, who are being properly motivated, well-trained and informed, will help sustain the momentum of any business. Sharp is one of them. The Business…
Customer snapshotKuala Lumpur, Malaysia Music is a discipline which requires precision, a good ear, lots of practice and detailed technique, all of which demand time. For all these reasons, it might seem strange to teach music via e-learning. However, the International…
Customer snapshotSydney, Australia How do you teach creativity? This is the main question that the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) has been asking itself from the very beginning, since it took on responsibility for fostering the country’s film industry….
InterviewsLondon, United Kingdom Oleg Figlin is Vice-President heading the International consultant at Blackboard. He has held this post for a little over a year, after spending 14 years with another large software company – SAP. His story shows just how…
Customer snapshotLondon, England For over 50 years, The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) has been committed to cross-cultural exchange. Under the guidance of founder Sir Cyril Taylor, AIFS operates as a social enterprise based in Stamford, Connecticut. The organization maintains…
Customer snapshotMissoula, MT, United States For the University of Montana, innovation and accessibility go hand in hand. By working with Blackboard Open LMS and the Moodle Accessibility Collaboration Group, the institution strives to provide an online learning management system that is…
InterviewsThe American International School Hong Kong uses Digital Tools to foster collaborative learning – E-learn
Customer snapshotBaltimore, MD, United States Having 174 public schools in a single system can seem hard to handle, even more so when there is a worldwide transition into digital and blended learning. 174 is the number of schools, centers, and programs…
Customer snapshotSalt Lake City, United States Utah’s premier online school is leading the way in terms of e-learning strategies. We talked to DeLaina Tonks, director of Mountain Heights Academy, about the main challenges and the great advantages of virtual education.
Customer snapshotSpring Green, USA When you think of Spring Green, an old farming community in southern Wisconsin, high-tech education doesn’t really come to mind. However, amid the big open spaces, the cows and the towns with 1,000 people or fewer, River…
Customer snapshotBogotá, Colombia Knowing that the intelligent use of technology to optimize business processes can have large business impacts, Grupo <a>, a holding company with more than 15 businesses, including Chaidneme, Apro, Bonem, and Carvica, decided to unify its training procedures…
Use CasesGuadalajara, México Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara (UAG) has worked with Moodle since nearly the beginning of the open source project, and has used it to support many different academic processes throughout the university. Understanding the changing academic landscape, in 2006…
Customer snapshotBayer: a successful case of sales improvement through Learning effectiveness
Customer snapshotThe Medical University of South Carolina: e-learning in Health Sciences
Customer snapshotBogotá, Colombia In 2013, as a means to meet and exceed the requirements of Millicom, their parent company, Tigo created a corporate university. Its mission is to develop employee organizational skills across all levels of the company. To achieve this,…
Customer snapshotBogotá, Colombia Knowledge management is one of SNC-Lavalin‘s corporate strategy objectives . In turn, SNC-Lavalin, Colombia focuses much of their efforts on e-learning as they value the benefits it offers – broad reach, increased flexibility and lower cost, to name a…
Customer snapshotScandinavia Pharma training a superior sales force using e-learning
Customer snapshotBogotá, Colombia More than six years ago Compañía Colombiana Automotriz – Mazda began transitioning from onsite to online training aimed at developing competencies amongst all of their dealership employees, but especially those of technical personnel, client service representatives and spare parts…
InterviewsAuteco: committed to the safety of motorcyclists in Colombia as a Social effort – E-learn
