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Glee - A TV Show Review

Glee was named as one of the fall seasons most anticipated shows. It was previewed back in May and was said to be a phenomenon. Is it living up to the hype? The first episode of Glee was really cute and the music was fantastic. I think the show has really hit its stride and it has become one of my must-see TV shows every week. If you have not watch glee online as of yet, here's a recap. Glee follows a Spanish teacher, Will Schuester… Continue

Added by wan halim on December 26, 2009 at 5:08pm — No Comments

The Humble Storyboard is almost 80 years old. Is it time for its retirement?

I wonder if we can give the ol’ storyboard a ‘makeover’? I think ‘MS Word’ is by far the most extensively used in developing online course storyboards. Connie has a very useful section, “Storyboards for eLearning” on her site for those who wish to pick up some tips. Can we come up with a tool that offers all the better features? For those who are interested in my ideas, please click on http://blog.commlabindia… Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on December 10, 2009 at 4:06am — No Comments

Time Management during Online CAT 2009

Managing your time during the actual online CAT exam is also very important. There guidelines that will help you manage your time while during the CAT test. • Pay attention to the number of marks each CAT question is worth before allotting time. It is common for CAT questions to have different marks. Before answering questions, look over the whole CAT paper to see if there are some CAT questions th… Continue

Added by 1982radhika on November 24, 2009 at 8:10pm — No Comments

Hello From Vietnam

Hi everybody, I'm Toan Nguyen Minh - a blogger from Vietnam who blogs at Make Money Online. In http://www.chotoan.com I will share all my EXP about Make Money Online, Internet Marketing and Online Business thought blog posts. Hope you will enjoy reading my blog and leave some comment on. Thanks! Toan Ng… Continue

Added by Toan Nguyen Minh on November 21, 2009 at 6:46pm — No Comments

Is there any end to learning?

Would like to hear your experiences about how you used learning to achieve greater heights in your career. For those who are interested to see my opinion, please click on http://www.commlabuniversity.com/blog/speed-of-learning/ Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on November 19, 2009 at 3:50am — No Comments

How can I have more budgets for learning and training?

A successful organization whether it’s 100 people company or a Global Fortune company always focuses on learning and training, because it wants to keep up with the change and competition. These organizations have fixed budgets for training every year. When we talk to our clients they say that they want a lot of training to be developed but as they are running out of budgets, they shift some of the training to the next year. Now the big question, are these companies not focused on the training?… Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on November 18, 2009 at 4:33am — No Comments

Is Google Wave a flop?

Did any one of you figure out how Google Wave can be used as a learning tool in an organizational context? I welcome your experiences and opinions. For those who are interested to see our opinion, please click on http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning/is-google-wave-a-flop Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on November 17, 2009 at 4:03am — No Comments

IIM CAT Goes Online in 2009 – How to Prepare for CAT 2009 & CAT 2010 Online?

In 2009 the MBA entrance test, Common Admission Test (CAT), goes Online in India. Online CAT score is prerequisite for those who aspire to get admission in to some of the top MBA colleges in India. With every year the number of CAT aspirants consisting of under graduate and graduate students has been increasing making the MBA admissions to top b schools in India even more competitive. 2009 onwards there will be additional challenges that Online CAT aspirants need to face. So first let’s… Continue

Added by 1982sunitan on November 15, 2009 at 9:07pm — 1 Comment

Online CAT 2009 – Test Taking Tips

CAT 2009 will be a Computer Based Test and of course this is definitely a breaking news for every CAT aspirant. Though the IIMs declared that the standard of CAT 2009 will remain the same, every aspirant is definitely worried about the strategy that must be adopted to score high in the CAT exam. But , as always, if your CAT preparation is up to the mark, even am online CAT cannot be a challenge for you. CAT 2009 will be of 135 minutes with 60 to 70 standard CAT questions. The most important thin… Continue

Added by 1982radhika on October 27, 2009 at 1:06am — No Comments

Google Docs for Online Classroom: Sharing Quizzes to Invite Students to Take the Quiz

At the last post about creating online quizzes with Google Docs, I showed you the steps to create online quizzes with Google Docs. In this post, I will guide you to share the quizzes you created and then invite others to take quizzes. You can share the quiz spreadsheet with others or publish it. About sharing quiz spreadsheet online to let other… Continue

Added by William Peterson on October 21, 2009 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

Creating Online Quizzzes with Google Docs for Free

Google Docs is a favorite thing for us teachers. It is a totally free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users, especially for teachers using it in online classroom. In addition to being a stellar way to write, store and manage your documents and slideshows, it is also a fantastically useful way to create online quizzes for online assessment.

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Added by William Peterson on October 13, 2009 at 2:21am — No Comments

8 Ways to Create Online Quiz, Test, Exam

Online test brings a lot of benefits to assessment: time-saving, flexibility and economical. For test-takers, they can take the online test at their own preferred time - great flexibility. For trainers/teachers, it spares the time to mark the test because the test is graded automatically - big time-saving. For organizations, it saves a lot of cost to employ instructor designers and print millions of test papers - more economical. Thanks to companies develop tons of useful products for us to mak… Continue

Added by William Peterson on September 23, 2009 at 6:41pm — 1 Comment

Online resources for learning and teaching

Online resources for learning any subject As we know there is no dearth of inspirational and expert teachers for whatever skill we want to learn. They are very much out there near us. But it has been common experience that at times they are just hard to find. We simply look around and fail for the suggestion come through our acquaintances. It might be because, we don't have such easy option to explore and reach out to them. We always want to make an informed decision in our potential Teacher sea… Continue

Added by Ambrish Prasad on September 12, 2009 at 8:01pm — No Comments

Mashable.com What is the Future of Teaching?

Mashable.com What is the Future of Teaching? By Josh Catone August 31st, 2009 ....I recently talked to Shai Reshef of the University of the People, an online-only institution aiming to bring quality education to students, mostly in developing nations, for whom cost is a prohibitive barrier to traditional classroom learning. Reshef told me that his University really acts as a guide, helping people to organize the types of knowledge discovery and peer-to-peer teaching activities they’re already d… Continue

Added by Shai Reshef on September 4, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

FastCompany-How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Anya Kamenetz Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing. ......The online University of the People, founded by Shai Reshef, who made his fortune in for-profit education, signed up its first class this fall -- 300 students from nearly 100 countries. While it has yet to get accreditation, the not-for-profit plans to offer bachelor's degrees in business and com… Continue

Added by Shai Reshef on September 1, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Accredited Online Schools Add New Horizons to your Career

Online education needs no introduction today. They have been very much in the limelight for being highly flexible to suit everybody’s needs and timings. Getting an online degree is very advantageous and one must consider it to be a part of their career plan. There are so many accredited online schools and accredited online degrees available today tha… Continue

Added by Akash Aggarwal on August 12, 2009 at 4:32am — No Comments

Mashable.com- In the Future, the Cost of Education Will Be Zero

In the Future, the Cost of Education Will Be Zero July 24th, 2009 | by Josh Catone The average cost of yearly tuition at a private, four-year college in the US this year was $25,143, and for public schools, students could expect to pay $6,585 on average for the 2008-09 school year, according to the College Board. That was up 5.9% and 6.4% respectively over the previous year, which is well ahead of the national average rate of inflation. What that means is that for many people, college is out of… Continue

Added by Shai Reshef on July 26, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Educating Timeshare Resorts - How to market timeshare online

We have just published a blog post How to market timeshare online, I hope Timeshare Resorts especially in Europe will take 5 minutes out to read it and I hope some of the points will stick. Still today here in Tenerife OPC's are running around the streets offering free bogus h… Continue

Added by John Beckley on July 22, 2009 at 3:09pm — 2 Comments

The Jakarta Post-Learning goes the distance

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/15/learning-goes-distance.html Learning goes the distance Anissa S. Febrina , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 07/15/2009 12:30 PM | Features A passion for knowledge can be limited by neither time nor space, especially with distance learning helping people to indulge that passion, wherever they might be. For eight years, 41-year-old housewife Ida Rahayu has been juggling her daily house chores and her textbooks, taking children to school and taking… Continue

Added by Shai Reshef on July 15, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Investigative Search 20/10: Online Self-Paced Training In Website Evaluation

The 21st Century Information Fluency Project is offering a new self-paced online class devoted to Website Evaluation using investigative search methods. This is the first time we've offered a self-paced course designed to meet your on demand learning needs. In this course you work at your own pace in a media rich interactive environment hosted at our Moodle based online learning site.… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on July 14, 2009 at 5:46pm — No Comments

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