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Teaching Tool of the Century

I believe you are using the teaching tool of the century in its infancy. A business I recently consulted with was using social networks to deliver educational materials on selling medical, dental insurance, and travel health insurance to its sales staff. The staff was given reading materials, videos, audio files, and… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on October 22, 2009 at 8:25pm — No Comments

Facebook Apps for Education

Facebook has been making many inroads into education over the last few years. Many institutions are using Facebook sites to publicize events on campus, as well as to aid in their recruiting. As well, many students, instructors and administrators are using a number of Facebook applications for a wide variety of academic purposes. Recently we’ve been examining a number of Facebook apps that are relevant for educational use. We’ve assembled a small list of 20 facebook apps here and are happy to h… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 15, 2009 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Great IT service

Like most Ops managers, I’ve come across and dealt with my fair share of IT disasters. I’ve gone the route of hiring an in-house staff, only to realize that it exhausted my budget and half the time I was paying for employees to sit around and wait for a disaster to strike. I’ve also gone the route of hiring an outside company to run my IT support, again only to find that I was being overcharged at every turn and I had no REAL immediate support, more like we were put into a “Queue” and when our n… Continue

Added by John Lawrence on October 12, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Various resources regarding online teaching & learning

Various resources regarding online teaching & learning Continue

Added by Dan Christian on October 8, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The Times Higher Education World Rankings: Harvard Ranked #1, Cambridge #2

The Times Higher Education rankings have been released today, and we’re very excited to see a client of ours, University of Cambridge has moved up to #2 ranking globally. Harvard maintains it #1 ranking and Yale comes in at #3. Rather than quibble about where you school ranks, I’m curious if you believe such rankings are important and offer value. Did you or your children use lists like this to help decide which school to attend? Let us know what you think. Please feel free to join our upcomin… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 8, 2009 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Does Twitter have a place in Education?

Clearly this has been a tremendous year of growth for Twitter. Current valuation estimates of the company are in the order of $1 billion, and users are expected to reach 250 million over the next few years. A an eLearning provider, on a daily basis, we are talking to schools that looking at using it both for themselves as well as possibly having their students use it in some fashion. Campus Technology recently reported,… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 18, 2009 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Does eLearning need to have a ROI that’s more than just money?

The Adobe Captivate Blog earlier this month reported on a Higher Ed blog - http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ “Around 70% of faculty believe that the learning outcomes of online learning are inferior to F2F.” This got me thinking about business eLearning. I have seen all sorts of content classified as eLearning and as an educator I have to ask – Is it important to have learning outcomes associated with eLearning for it to… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 18, 2009 at 9:25am — No Comments

Colleges are Failing

David Leonhardt of the New York Times recently wrote an eye opening article entitled "Colleges are Failing in Graduation Rates." The full article can be found online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/business/economy/09leonhardt.html?_r=1&ref=education. He mentions that at the University of Massachusetts, only 33% of freshmen graduate within 6 years. It's an extreme, b… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 11, 2009 at 8:54am — No Comments

Shaking Up Blended Learning

Blended Learning as a concept is widely used in the academic, corporate and non profit sectors throughout the world. We're seeing a great deal of change in it's utilization, and in my blog today, I'll try to highlight some of the changes. Historically, as Margaret Driscoll pointed out in her paper for IBM Global Services "Blended Learning: Let's Get Beyond the Hype" when institutions consider blending learning they are considering four slightly different scenarios. * To combine or mix modes of… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 28, 2009 at 9:47am — No Comments

Online Education Beats the Classroom

Wednesday, Aug. 9, the New York Times published an article based on a 12 year study comprehensive study on online education at all levels (K-12, college and adult continuing education programs of all kinds) was recently published. The study encompassed 99 quantitative studies comparing online and instructor lead courses. Conclusion - online education beats the classroom. In the article, reporter Steve Lohr states: "Until fairly recently, online education amounted to little more than… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 24, 2009 at 11:15am — No Comments

What tools are prestigious schools incorporating into their eLearning programs?

The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School implemented a state of the art virtual learning environment (VLE) with Interactyx Limited’s TOPYX® VLE platform. Beginning this term, the candidates of its Executive MBA program will use the TOPYX platform. Judge Business School is built on an ethos of collaboration. Accordingly, it… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 19, 2009 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Interactyx Limited Announces Global Affiliate Program

Interactyx Limited is delighted to announce a comprehensive affiliate program that is focused on reaching new international markets and providing additional penetration into certain domestic industries with TOPYX®, the affordable eLearning 2.0 Software as a Service (SaaS) solution with integrated social networking, mobile learning and eCommerce functionality. Interactyx Limited is continuing to review and accept high-value affiliate opportuniti… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 18, 2009 at 11:21am — No Comments

What if Textbooks Disappeared?

As reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, many states are implementing budget cuts of 5% -15%. http://chronicle.com/article/Further-State-Budget-Cuts-Loom/47448/ Clearly, the entire issue is a complex one. Tax revenue to the states and municipalities has decreased based on both lower realty tax revenue and income tax revenue as a result of economic contraction and the real estate meltdown of… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 13, 2009 at 11:12am — No Comments

Understanding the Benefits of eLearning 2.0

What is eLearning 2.0? How can I incorporate social networking and mobile learning tools? How easy is it to get started with eLearning software? These are very important questions that people face when looking into available eLearning solutions.

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Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 7, 2009 at 9:52am — No Comments

University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School Chooses TOPYX eLearning Solution

Interactyx Limited is very proud to announce today that the TOPYX® eLearning 2.0 solution with integrated social networking technologies, has been chosen by Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge as its comprehensive eLearning content distribution and collaborative learning platform. Students of Cambridge’s Executive MBA programme will commence using TOPYX in August 2009 for a two year term. Read the full article here -… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on July 30, 2009 at 1:29pm — No Comments

italki language tutoring marketplace - what do you think?

I'm on the board of italki, a global language learning community with 3,000+ teachers and 500,000 users and we recently launched a language learning marketplace where independent teachers and tutors can find students and vice versa. We focus on language exchange which is the opposite of an education game…you are talking to a real person in the other end and it’s a lot more engaging than a machine. If users want to go to the next level they can find a professional teacher and tutor on the site an… Continue

Added by William Bao Bean on July 30, 2009 at 2:22am — No Comments

Learn How Social Networking is Revolutionizing eLearning Programs

Sign up to attend our free, live webinars! See the full list at http://www.interactyx.com/interactyx-2. Now is your chance to get the answers you've been looking for to help make that important decision about eLearning and social networking technology that will revolutionize your business! Interactyx Limited is launching a FREE webinar series to make sure you have the information you need to advance your learning and training programs. Join us to dis… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on July 16, 2009 at 5:13pm — No Comments

Use Social Networking Tools to Enhance Any Learning Program

Use the power of social networking to keep students engaged! Sign up for this webinar to discuss the best uses of new tools to affordably enhance any eLearning program, for any size and type of school. Students are already familiar with the social networking – it’s time to create a better learning environment. Use Social Networking Tools to Enhance Any Learning Program Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET Register here - space is limited… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on July 10, 2009 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Packing Moving Services in Chennai

In India Chennai is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the 4 metropolises of India. There are several moving companies or agencies in the city of Chennai. These companies are helping people on any kinds of shifting or relocation situations – be it residential or commercial and industrial. These companies or agencies in Chennai are also termed as Chennai Packers and Movers or Chennai Packers Movers. These companies offering their useful relocation related services i… Continue

Added by michaeljohn on April 28, 2009 at 1:54am — No Comments

Tips to Make Shifting As Smooth As Possible

Shifting from a new place to another is tough. It can make you stressful physically and even mentally. You have to face lots of problems and issues during this process. Really it is boring and irritating process. But you can make this process simpler and easier to tolerate. You know well that every problem has a solution. So, you can also make shifting easier and convenient. You can make shifting process easier and hassle free by hiring one of reputed packe… Continue

Added by michaeljohn on April 28, 2009 at 1:52am — No Comments

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