Success Stories

For many individuals, the word ‘mathematics’ is synonymous with fear and confusion—some just can’t find the formula to understand it. However, there’s a percentage of people who have allowed themselves to be captivated by the pure sciences. Julio Alberto Rios Gallego is among these math lovers: he discovered he could both easily understand mathematical concepts, and explain them to others as an eighth-grader. But, it wasn’t until 2009 that he began to grow an online community dedicated to mass education on the subject: a YouTube channel known as ‘Julioprofe’, with 835,000 subscribers.

eLearn Magazine had the privilege of being able to chat with Dr. Dave Marcial, Associate Professor at Silliman University. He is a technical committee member for IT Education of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education, Executive Director of the Asian…

What does every fresh graduate ultimately want? To quickly find a job in a role that uses the skills on which they’ve spent years of intense study. Unfortunately, the reality is that this search can quickly become frustrating, and can sometimes be entirely fruitless. KSchool, a digital marketing school boasting the highest employability rate in Spain, claims to know how to solve this problem. What’s more, the evidence supports the claim: 94% of KSchool alumni work in the digital sector.

The University of Mindanao is an extremely huge family of 13 university campuses in Davao City, the southeastern Mindanao island, Philippines. It is one of the two universities in the region to have been granted the Autonomous Status by the Commission on Higher Education.

Mexico’s Madero University (UMAD) has a motto: “Tenemos Madera”, which means “We Have What It Takes”. This call to arms motivates UMAD staff to reinvent, renew, and innovate the way it educates its students. It’s also helped the university develop an exemplary virtual education system, capable of training students with high academic skills as well as a love for this new educational modality:

The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) is the third largest community college system in the United States, with an enrollment of 700,000 students across its 58 colleges throughout the state of North Carolina. Moodle™-based Open LMS serves 55% of NCCCS colleges, with 230,000 current active users.

Carl Sandburg College has adopted Instilled to give faculty video recording capabilities within its existing LMS, providing students with on-demand access to recordings wherever they need to learn.

At the end of last year, the University of Vassouras (formerly Severino Sombra University – USS) celebrated an important milestone in the digital transformation of the Severino Sombra Educational Foundation (Fusve).

The Royal College of Art’s (RCA) Graduate Diploma Art & Design programme prepares students for master’s level study of Art and Design.

Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, is known as one of the leading private universities in the country, with approximately 50,000 students studying in 13 faculties and 22 graduate schools, including specialist graduate schools. 

RISE is a new online journal and publishing platform created by a team of professionals at the University of Portsmouth (UoP), in the United Kingdom, with the aim to recognize excellence primarily in the research-based work of students and build a greater sense of community. 

Organizations across the globe are increasingly bringing more, if not all, of their training courses online, a trend that has no doubt accelerated even more during the COVID-19 pandemic as most businesses recognized the benefit of offering learning programs in an online format to keep business initiatives moving forward.