Make Your Online Education Platform Culturally Inclusive
Online education has vastly improved the efficiency of trainings. Before, corporations, hospitals, universities, and other institutions were forced to hire trainers to teach staff…
6 Steps to Improve Content Readability
Clear writing is of the utmost importance to properly engage your audience of interest. Say you are a blogger or a distance educator or…
Intrinsic VS Extrinsic Motivation in Adult Learners
Adult learners need a balance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to successfully complete a task or acquire a new skill. In online learning environments,…
5 Tips to Increase LMS User Engagement
Are you familiar with the phrase “out of sight, out of mind?” When it comes to LMS platforms, it is understandable that students or…
Effects of Testing on Long-Term Retention
Imagine your staff or students are sitting through another in-person training. In front of them is a well-spoken professional showing them how to use…
The LMS Platform: A Breakthrough in SRL Research
Self-regulated learning (SRL) occurs when learners manage their own acquisition of new information. SRL strategies include metacognitive components (e.g., rehearsal, elaboration, and organization of new knowledge);…
3 Mnemonic Devices to Improve CME Learning
Mnemonic devices are strategies that make complex information easier to recall. There are several types of mnemonic devices. One mnemonic device is the method…
The Learning Styles Myth & Online Education Platforms
According to the popular VARK system, there are four learning styles: visual learners, aural learners, kinesthetic learners, and reading/writing learners (Kharb, Samanta, Jindal, &…
Join us at the Teaching with Technology Conference
We are excited to announce that we will be attending the Teaching with Technology Conference in Baltimore, Maryland! At this conference, we look forward…
10 Tips to Design Lower-Literacy Health Content
Despite what you might think, lower literacy is not synonymous with being illiterate. In fact, people of lower literacy can read, they just struggle…