The online education market is exploding. Covid lockdowns have accelerated the need for online learning and educational videos. Many teachers and non-teachers alike have responded in continuous flow of educational video after video. That’s great for learning, but that also means there is a lot more competition to make your educational videos stand out. What […]
Covid-19 has resulted in mass layoffs and more time for huge numbers of people. Many have therefore turned to the internet to upskill or even completely reskill by taking informal and more formal online courses. These courses may be MOOCs or paid pre-recorded video courses with or without certificates. In Covid-stricken 2020, Coursera alone increased
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If the evolutionary purpose of language is social, then language cannot be reduced to words and grammar rules. Language is not the end but a means to an end. And that end is communication, which refers to not only the knowledge and skills in language use but also of the context and its participants. In
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What EDU-tainment can be There is another option to commercially constrained training sessions. Training programs can still focus on edutainment but also on using the principles from the science of learning for skill learning and motivating. The next few paragraphs will describe the following image about how learning principles can be applied to training program
Teachers and managers share not only similar goals and tasks, but also similar failures. In a recent consultation meeting of my training organization and a vice president in a large multinational firm who was giving us recommendations about preparing our students for the 2020s workforce, I had an epiphany. For the first time in my
