Momenta Learning No. 39 News on Elearning and Online Learning

Welcome to the No. 39 Issue of Momenta Learning News on Elearning and Online Learning.

SCORE: Keep skills sharp through education Question: I have run my business successfully for quite some time, but it seems that things change so quickly anymore I struggle to keep up with changing client desires, effective marketing and even software changes. Can SCORE provide some doable guidelines for staying on top of trends?

Walmart Creates Training Academies To Improve Customer Service You can't be great at everything. Very few companies are able to have the lowest prices and amazing customer service. You have to play to your strengths. Walmart's strength is low price. It's hard to deliver a Nordstrom level of service with Walmart prices.

Learn UX design: 10 best paid and free courses - Features User experience (UX) is fundamental to good design work. Websites, design and technology may be getting increasingly complex, but one thing remains simple - that how the user feels is always key. It can be tricky to know where to start if you want to learn about UX.

Has Twitter transformed the PhD experience? As the social media platform celebrates its 10th anniversary, Jack Grove examines how it has changed doctoral study

Student Engagement Strategies for the Online Learning Environment During the past year and a half, our faculty development unit has been gathering data from students about how engaged they felt in their online courses. We wanted to use this data to develop a variety of strategies for faculty to use to better engage their students.

8 Tools to Increase Productivity for Online Students Online students are generally busy, and these accessories can assist them in their education. As an online professor, I recently had the pleasure of catching up with a student for coffee. He is a busy young professional, pursuing his master's degree online in music education at SUNY Buffalo State, while teaching full time and coaching sports after school.

New anti-doping e-learning programme launched Monday, 14 March, 2016 - 20:51 Drug Free Sport NZ has introduced a state-of-the-art e-learning programme to ensure that as many athletes as possible get access to anti-doping education. The new online programme enables athletes to access a range of modules about the anti-doping rules and the risks of doping from anywhere in the world at any time.

The Latest Approach to Employee Training How do you educate and train a workforce that is more easily distracted than ever? For some companies, the answer is short digital learning sessions that are available at employees' convenience.

How to Find Multimedia for E-Learning | The Rapid E-Learning Blog Who doesn't like some help when it comes to building courses? How many times have you tried to identify a font, or find the source of an image, or tried to find just the right stock photo? Well, today you're in luck.

Converting ILT to eLearning: Benefits and Tips When I first started as an instructional designer in eLearning, one of the services provided by the team I was on was converting instructor-led training (ILT) to eLearning-based content. ILT is facilitated by an instructor either online or in a classroom, allowing learners to interact with their instructor and discuss the training material.