eLearning Trends

eLearningArt.com survey 49 experts to find out the top trends in eLearning. The list yielded the following: Mobile, micro-learning, video, virtual reality, social learning, eLearning Decline, Gamification, Artificial Intelligence, and interactions as the  9 Top eLeraning Treds of 2017.

Academic Transformation

Community colleges are becoming digital innovators in education. The increase of online classes is calling for a new ways to deliver content, engage students and keep them motivated to successful achieve their educational goals. This guide created by EdSurge explains how Community colleges are embracing a new educational paradigm.

Video Lectures Best Practices

Everyone want instructional videos to have a long lasting life. Shweta Vyas in her article Extending the Shelf-Life of Your Instructional Videos: Six Common Pitfalls to Avoid describe simple errors that can impact the usability of videos.

Good Design

Creating Power Point cards is an art. It also requires good design to make effective eye-catching slides. Reducing the clutter is important for a presentation to have the impact we desire.

A few basic rules of graphic design can help you in the creation of slides, chart, or presentation boards. Read all about The Importance of White Space in E-Learning in this article.

Positive Psychology in the Classroom

Positive emotions are contagious, creating an inviting positive environment and context can help students enjoy and be more productive during class. These feeling can transcend outside the classroom.

Read all about it Toward a 'Positive U' written by Beverley Myatt, MA, and Lynne N. Kennette, PhD.

An Example Lesson

This is an excellent sample of a lesson created at Ted-Ed. This is How Playing and Instrument Benefits your Brain, created by Anita Collins, animation directed by Sharon Colman Graham, script edited by Alex Gendler.

About Public Domain in the USA

While other countries welcome copyright material into public domain on January first of every year, the laws in the United States make it really hard for any work produced after 1923 to become public domain.

In the article Public Domain Day 2017 by Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, we can read what is going on with public domain in the states.

Why Note-taking

The value of note-taking has to be more clear for students. Teachers can help students realize that taking better notes can help them improve learning. Maryellen Weimer, PhD has the insides for Tips for Developing Students' Note-taking Skills.

Essentials of a Good eLearning Course

Everyone has a different taste in how to make that online class more appealing, inviting, and effective. In this article Karla Gutierrez lists six eLearning must-haves.

Learning Styles

Categorizing learning styles.

Video in Education

The State of Video in Education from Kaltura.com

Give PP Slides vs. Asking students to Take Notes

Having good note-taking skills will help students with their listening skills, information processing, understanding, studying, and test taking. Teachers can help students take good notes by identifying key concepts, asking students to retrieve information from previous notes or to summarize information at the beginning of class, they can also ask students to refer to the notes from test questions that were missed by multiple people. Read Maryellen Weimer's article Tips for Developing Students' Note-taking Skills.