Tip 1: Learning starts with a story
Someone once said all learning starts with a story. They probably went on to tell a story about how they realised that. Right idea. If you can hook and engage your audience up front, all the more likely they'll stay the journey.
A Collection Of The Best WordPress Multisite Plugins
WordPress multisite is a fantastic feature that allows you to create a network of virtual sites using one WordPress installation. It is used to power many large websites and blog networks such as BBC America and b5media. In my last article, I showed you how to install and uninstall WordPress multisite.
Design for Adult Learning, Teaching and Learning Theory, Feedback
Design for adult learning Ideally, the design of a course should allow students to customize the experience to meet their goals and complement their personal learning styles. Leonard and DeLacey draw two observations from an Adult Learning Workshop [*] held at Harvard Business School that are useful to keep in mind when designing enhanced, blended or fully-online courses: students who already know the power of a classroom experience will not easily abandon that model for something new; because humans have "certain, predictable preferences and capabilities in learning," some principles of learning span different academic methods. They offer seven simple, yet valuable ideas that should be incorporated into the design of online courses: Learning is a social activity: group activities and communities aid in the effectiveness of the learning experience because of the basic nature of human beings as social creatures.
The Complete Guide To Creating A WordPress Multisite Installation
WordPress introduced their multisite feature back in 2010 in WordPress 3.0. It replaced the older WordPress MU system. Once the feature is activated on your website, multiple websites can be created from the same WordPress installation. Essentially, one set of WordPress core files powers many websites. Plugins and themes are also shared, however each website has unique directories for media uploads.
Front Page: MOOC MOOC Jan 2013
Welcome to Hybrid Pedagogy's MOOC MOOC! Hybrid Pedagogy's MOOC MOOC ran from August 12 - 18, 2012 w/ over 600 registrants and approximately 3000 unofficial participants. The course ran again from January 6 - 12, 2013, this time w/ over 1000 registrants. Check www.moocmooc.com for info. While discussion forums on this site are now closed, course materials are still available. Feel free to explore.
How to Efficiently Manage Multiple WordPress Sites using ManageWP
Managing multiple WordPress sites can be frustrating and time consuming. Unless you are hosted with a managed WordPress hosting provider like WPEngine, keeping all of your WordPress site up to date becomes your responsibility. Sometimes, one missed WordPress update is all it takes for hackers to potentially ruin all of our hard work. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a single dashboard that lets you easily update plugins, write new posts, monitor for traffic and downtime, check your analytics, do SEO analysis on posts, create backups, and much more without logging into each site individually? If you like the sound of it, then you will really love this article.
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Free Publisher 2010 Tutorial at GCFLearnFree
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Getting Started - What’s new in Publisher 2010 - Publisher
Microsoft Publisher 2010 adds new capabilities geared to help you create, print, and distribute professional-quality publications and sales and marketing materials. With the updated user interface, an improved print experience to help with more efficient printing, new picture placement and manipulation tools, building blocks of content, and fine typography options such as true small caps, ligatures, and stylistic alternates, Publisher 2010 improves the desktop publishing experience and makes the results more predictable so that you get the publications you want. In this article Improved interface
7 Academic Search Engines Not Named Google
When we search, we often first reach for Google–and rightfully so. But by using Google students and teachers are unwittingly bending to the will of webmasters who are experts at SEO (search engine optimization), which can mean that you find what they want you to find rather than what you really need. So what to do? Thankfully, there are options for 21st century learners.
Online Education – Introducing the Microlecture Format
Most college students would likely concur – fifty minute lectures can be a bit much. With current research indicating that attention spans (measured in minutes) roughly mirror a students age (measured in years), it begs the question as to the rationale behind lectures of such length. Given that it is tough to justify the traditional lecture timeframes, it is no surprise to see online educational programs seeking to offer presentations that feature shorter podcasts. But in an astonishing switch, David Shieh of the Chronicle of Higher Education recently took a look at a community college program that features a microlecture format, presentations varying from one to three minutes in length. The Micro-Lecture While one minute lectures may be beyond the scope of imagination for any veteran teacher, Shieh reports on the piloting of the concept at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M.
Work Faster in Microsoft Word: 10 Secrets
Not everything that Microsoft Word 2010 can do is obvious from a quick look at the tools on the main ribbon toolbar. Some features are buried in the Options menu or in dialog boxes, and others take the form of keyboard shortcuts or simply aren't easy to see. Would you like to be able to insert a cent symbol or type the accented é characters in résumé, directly from the ribbon toolbar? How about adding your company's specialized terminology to the built-in Word dictionary? You can have these and other options for working faster and smarter in Word at your fingertips if you know where to find them and how to set them up.
