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Find out how this Spanish institute of professional studies has adapted to online education through Open LMS. Learn which tools were adopted and some practical recommendations for any institution looking to incorporate eLearning into their curriculum.

As many organizations & industries fight through the 2020 new normal, one of the highest impacts has been training and learning sectors. While many others may have settled for good-old video conferences or webinars to replace their training system, what…

See how Carl Sandburg College in the United States grew their online course offering by 85% in 2020, plus their recommendations on how to approach eLearning. Take a look!

College of Insurance is a professional training institution that specializes in insurance and pensions training, providing official certification for agents primarily in Kenya, Eastern Africa. It’s the only college of its kind in the country, with two main campuses, one…

United States No other communication medium is quite as powerful as video is today.  Just as we wondered years ago whether mobile phones would permeate society on a daily basis, video trends and usage have crowned it one of the…

We’re honored to have had the opportunity to sponsor and attend the 15th eLearning Forum Asia 2020 on 7-8 December 2020, hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Together, we discussed, exchanged ideas, and explored many new technologies…

For over 40 years, True Relationships and Reproductive Health has delivered essential training to healthcare professionals, doctors and nurses, in the state of Queensland, Australia. It also provides workplace development for other sectors including teachers, early childcare workers, youth and…

E-Learn Magazine is excited and proud to sponsor the 15th eLearning Forum Asia (eLFA2020), being held virtually this year between the 7th and 8th of December 2020. The event aims to advance the application of information technology in teaching and…

COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transformation of many sectors, including education. With extended quarantine measures and the temporary closures of schools and universities, educational institutions globally have had to strengthen their digital teaching and learning ecosystems in order to continue…

Quick Take: How has COVID-19 changed the way we teach and assess students? See what education professionals from around the world have to say about how they’ve adapted and what they anticipate for the future.

Santiago de Chile, Chile  Iplacex is a higher education institution that offers technical and professional training to students who live throughout Chile. Iplacex’s distance education program reaches approximately 17,000 students through its Open LMS-hosted digital learning environment, allowing the institution…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Apr. 3, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Sydney, Australia How can you teach creativity in the classroom? This is the main question that the Australian Film Television and Radio School has been…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Apr 1st, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Boston, MA, United States To be the global expert in educating women for their own empowerment and leadership: this vision couldn’t be more…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Mar 12, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Sydney, Australia Over 20 years ago, the Australian College of Ministries (ACOM) made the shift from being a campus-based college to a dynamic…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Feb 18, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Chía, Colombia. Twenty-four years ago, when Fabián Avella joined the Universidad de La Sabana as a systems analyst, LAN networks did not exist,…

Quick Take: Keeping students from dropping out depends on a retention strategy that is based on understanding why they are choosing to leave school in the first place.

Arequipa, Peru. In Peru, there is still some distrust and resistance towards banking from a large portion of the population, especially in rural communities. This reluctance to accessing banking services is largely due to the long period of time this…

Quick Take: With more than 10 types of higher education institutions, Mexico offers great options for all kinds of students.

Coffee Region, Colombia The Manuel Mejía Foundation (FMM) is a private non-profit entity founded in 1961 by Colombia’s coffee sector, with the aim of establishing agricultural education centers to train industry workers, and for the agricultural and livestock sector in…

Quick take: As markets, jobs and activities evolve, new skills become needed. Companies will have to work in collaboration with individuals and education institutions in order to develop these capabilities.

Quick take: Over the next 10 years, Australian primary and secondary schools will receive billions of dollars worth of investments. However, the government still argues there’s a need to rationalize expenditure in higher education in order to keep it sustainable.

Quick Take: Learn more about how Singapore invests in education to guarantee its economic future.

Quick Take: Most people love a good cup of coffee, but in Singapore, marginalized women and at-risk youth have had a taste of something even better: since 2011, Bettr Barista’s social program have given them the skills to build a career and a new life.

Quick Take: Do you know about UDL? Universal Design for Learning is an approach to curriculum that gives students equal opportunities to learn and succeed.

Quick take: Natural beauty, great culture and education levels on the rise: check out why Colombia is being chosen by more international students as a higher education destination every year.

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on January 15, 2019 To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Melbourne, Australia Dr. Kulari Lokuge of Monash College is leading a team of innovators, faculty, and students through an education transformation journey. Their…

Assessment plays a major role in education, as a student grading and support mechanism, but also in program improvement. All over the world, there are varying perspectives and approaches, and regions are taking action in different forms of assessment, both…

Quick take: How to effectively assess outcomes? How can technology facilitate this process for faculty? How can outcomes assessment lead to higher quality in education? Proper assessment conduction can be challenging for instructors, but a few tips can help.

Quick take: What types of assessment are being used to measure quality in education? Different paradigms are emerging, and institutions and faculty need to be aligned in order to properly measure learning outcomes and offer a student-centered education.

Quick take: New Zealand is number 13 in the Human Development Report and number 10 on education rankings such as the World Economic Forum. One thing has a lot to do with the other.

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Feb. 8, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Hiram, Ohio Hiram College is integrating mindfulness and technology into students’ daily lives and is the first four-year college in Ohio to launch…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Jan 14, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. According to World Bank figures, 64% of Colombians plan for less than a month or have no financial plans, 58% have problems meeting…

Quick Take: Brazilians are the kings of soccer, but now they want to score big in education – and they are choosing online learning to do so.

Quick Take: More autonomous learners, capable of developing an active role in educational processes: that’s what student-centered learning is all about. However, there are educators who believe a more teacher-driven method is still the best way to go.

Quick Take: Is your institution student-centered? Investing in a student-focused approach can ensure a better educational experience and increase student engagement. Virtual student services, the use of mobile technologies and cognitive solutions are examples of initiatives that extend beyond campus reach

Quick Take: In a knowledge economy, we need to ensure that every student is getting the right opportunities to fulfill their potential. Online learning offers a flexibility that can help transform Education into a student-centered learning system beneficial to all.

With specialized educational programs implemented through digital platforms, Universidad Virtual de Estudios Superiores (UNIVES) is consolidating its position as one of the best online education universities in Mexico. UNIVES dates back to 1994, when the first computer training school was…

Quick Take: IntelliBoard is a great plug-in for open source LMS, useful to store data for future use.

Quick Take: With this teaching model that puts students at the core of the learning process, students can decide whether they want a face-to-face, online or mixed model to strengthen their learning.

Quick Take: Digital identity is understood as the trace each user leaves in the virtual world, and this university aims to inform its students on the repercussions this may have on their working future.

Quick 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.

Quick Take: Tele-presence makes it possible to have a class with all the benefits of distance and face-to-face teaching, all at the same time.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick take: A school in Hong Kong has created a unique model to offer real-time, flexible online learning. Their best practices make possible to teach students from remote locations.

Traditional learning has always been a time-based industry. A student sits in a chair for hours listening to lectures in a “chalk and talk” approach. The credits are not given based on if the student has learned but if they…

If you pay attention to educational development, you may have heard of competency based education (CBE). In 2015, Inside Higher Education[1] reported that approximately 600 institutions have some form of a CBE program in the design and development phase, and…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Feb 25, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Axial Training was founded in 1982 with the establishment of a large-scale heavy engineering workshop near the Port of Brisbane. Along with other…

Read the PDF version What is open education? Open education refers to a philosophy on the way people must produce, share and build upon knowledge. Followers of this philosophy think that everyone in the world must have access to high-quality…

Blended Learning: a new methodology for the new times

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Mar 4, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Manila, Philippines Academic excellence and passion for innovation are pillars at Manila-based Lyceum of the Philippines University. By April 2016, it had set…

Copenhaguen, 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…

Portland – OR, United States Online learning environments can be either synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous online collaboration tools remove distance, whereas asynchronous collaboration minimizes both distance and time as barriers to working and learning together. Asynchronous learning can therefore provide…

Atlanta – Georgia, United States E-learning continues to thrive and erase geographic distances using digital communication and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) for formal and informal learning. This gives people the same leverage regardless of location. Gautam Saha, Instructional Designer at…

Manila, 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…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Feb 15, 2019 To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Missoula, Mont., United States Thanks to the Personalized Learning Designer from Open LMS, students at Montana Digital Academy who are completing a credit…

Texas, U.S.A Due to its small-schools model that allows teachers to really get to know each student, Frisco Independent School District is one of the fastest growing in the United States. Technology and e-learning systems are a big part of…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Jan 11, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com.

Accessibility according to the student Accessible technologies are the key to truly leveling the playing field between students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers. While pursuing my undergraduate degree I had the opportunity to experience a wide array of courses…

As an instructional designer who also teaches in higher education, I am in the unique position to fully understand the constraints of and empathize with faculty who are faced with the task of redesigning courses to make them accessible.  It…

Raleigh, NC, United States In 2004 and 2005, four students at Harvard University created a website where students from the university could enjoy fluid communication and share content in a simple way via the internet. Their creation was so successful…

Sydney, Australia Open LMS is supporting Primary Health Care, one of Australia’s largest health care providers, to deliver ongoing education to its cohort of general practitioners and specialists. By offering unlimited access to courses and learning materials,Open LMS is helping…

Singapore, Singapore Today, more companies are becoming aware of the impact that effective human talent management can have on productivity levels. Staff that is duly motivated, well-trained and informed, will help sustain the momentum of any business. Sharp is one of…

The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global) is an international non-profit organization that develops and supports interoperability standards to promote collaboration between education technology organizations and applications. Since its founding in 1995, the IMS Global Learning Consortium has approved and…

São Paulo, Brazil Technology has changed the way we see, do and think about various aspects of everyday life, one of which is teaching and learning. This is the case at Centro Universitario Adventista de São Paulo, which has expanded…

Hudson, NC, United States The use of a digital platform like Open LMS at Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute (CCC&TI) has allowed education programs to be complemented and expanded beyond daily classroom sessions, and this has also increased the…

London, 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…

Sydney, Australia Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It has a total surface of more than 4,753,490 square miles and is surrounded by the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. Additionally, it has six climate types: equatorial, tropical,…

Baltimore, 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…

Minneapolis, MN, United States It’s a curious thing that, generally speaking, when someone tells you that they’re an expert in usability and instructional and educational design, it’s tough to imagine what type of person they’ll turn out to be. “The…

This post originally appeared on the Blackboard blog on Feb 28, 2019. To learn more about Blackboard products and services mentioned below, visit Blackboard.com. Cairo, Egypt Speaking a second or third language is virtually essential in today’s globalized world. Academic opportunities, greater competitiveness in the job market,…

Salt 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.

Spring 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…

Manila, Philippines Philippine Women’s University is the first private university for women in Asia founded by Asians. Established in 1919, its goal was to prepare women to participate in the building of a new nation. Today, the university also accepts male…

Trenton, NJ, United States Matthew Cooper, Associate Provost, Center for Learning and Technology and August “Chip” Stoll, Associate Director, MIS, Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey (USA) speak about their strategies employed build a successful online offering. Thomas Edison State…

Bayer: a successful case of sales improvement through Learning effectiveness