Monthly Archives: December 2012
Share Your Expertise! Present at a Virtual Conference
What’s working (or not working) in your online classroom? If you haven’t shared your experiences as an online instructor with a wider audience, consider taking the opportunity to do so in 2013. There are more diverse options available than you might realize, through both virtual conferences and on-ground conferences that have virtual attendance options. While [...]
Best of #IOLchat 2012
The Inside Online Learning chat (#IOLchat) is growing! Since its beginning in June 2011, we’ve undergone a few changes in time and format, and hosted 47 chats in 2012 alone. The goals from the start have been to provide anyone interested in online education with a forum to share ideas and resources, as well as [...]
Online Education’s Overnight Success
Many recent conversations with friends and colleagues in the industry have revolved around what seems like an overnight shift in the overall acceptance of online education. We’ve spent years, decades even, swimming against the traditional education stream – risking possible career suicide and enduring disapproval from academic peers – advocating the benefits of online learning. [...]
Teacher Loan Forgiveness: What You Should Know Before You Apply
Learn everything you need to know about teacher loan forgiveness before you apply, saving you time and helping you repay your student loans.
#IOLchat Report: Living the Digital Academic Life
Each week we meet via Twitter for #IOLchat to discuss current issues related to online learning. Participants include students, instructors, advisors, counselors, eLearning companies, schools, publishers, and instructional designers. Through a variety of technologies and tools we live more of our lives online than ever before. This is particularly true for online instructors who conduct [...]
A Starter Guide for Veterans Studying Online
Whether you are returning to school after military service or enrolling for the first time with civilian career goals in mind, there’s a lot to figure out before you start your first class. I not only made the transition myself, from active duty to full-time student, but also assisted students in my first-year seminar courses [...]
Learning Disabilities and Adults: 20 Tips for Thriving in the Workplace
If you’re looking for a little guidance, we’ve pulled together a list of tips to help you thrive in the workplace with a learning disability.
10 Career Buzzwords to Avoid in 2013
In 2010, LinkedIn began an annual review of member profiles to identify the most frequently used words and terms. This year’s list was compiled from an analysis of the more than 187 million user profiles now in the LinkedIn system. While we are encouraged to create profiles and other job search documents that include the [...]
#IOLchat Report: Online Learning Time Capsule 2012
Each week we meet via Twitter for #IOLchat to discuss current issues related to online learning. Participants include students, instructors, advisors, counselors, eLearning companies, schools, publishers, and instructional designers. This year is quickly drawing to a close, but there is still time to capture the best of eLearning. Reflect on your experiences, the resources you [...]
10 Overrated Job Qualifications You Don’t Really Need
We think it’s time employers and employees stopped placing so much emphasis on these 10 job qualifications that you can almost do without.
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A Twitter Guide for Online EducatorsHave you experienced Twitter? Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has become one of the most widely used social media tools, with hundreds of millions of active accounts, including an untold number of …