Susan Smith Nash's Blog, page 36
August 18, 2011
Maximizing Your Training and Professional Development Return on Investment
How do you value training when your core business is, in essence, built on and around new products and services that involve ongoing training? For example, what do you do if you provide hosting services, cloud hosting, webinars, or learning management systems?
It requires an entirely new way of looking at education in the organization. Training and education used to be the first budget items to
It requires an entirely new way of looking at education in the organization. Training and education used to be the first budget items to
August 7, 2011
OpenPlan for Technical Training on Solar-Powered Remote Monitoring and Operations System
This OpenPlan will help you identify and develop the materials you need for training on equipment and processes. Fast-track development of technical training requires a very clear look at the "must-have" instructional elements as well as a very clear sense of learning objectives and outcomes.For example, let's say that you would like to be able to remotely monitor and even operate your oil and
July 24, 2011
Amy Winehouse's Cuts, Tracks, Bruises, and Blemishes: A Digital Narrative
In Memoriam: Amy WinehouseI'm feeling really devastated by the news of Amy Winehouse's death. The last three years have been a rollercoaster with more drops than rises. I loved her performances in the early years -- 2004 - 2007 (even 2008-ish). I could not bear to stand to watch the decline. It is tragic in many senses -- for Amy Winehouse personally, and in the way she is / was all of us, no
July 22, 2011
History Teaching with Moodle
History Teaching with Moodle offers instructors, instructional designers, and SMEs a clear, step-by-step guide to building a medieval history course which can be used as a point of departure for online college classes, online history degree programs, in addition to secondary-level courses such as advanced placement for history. Author John Mannion uses attention-getting and engaging content
June 24, 2011
Enhancing Science Courses: New Series! OpenPlans for Enhancing E-Learning
E-Learning Queen is excited to launch a new series of course plans, E-Learning Queen OpenPlans, that can be used / adapted / adopted for your use in creating e-learning and m-learning courses. A core goal is to facilitate continual process / quality improvement of elearning courses, programs, and content. For that reason, E-Learning Queen OpenPlans are most likely to be of interest to course
June 4, 2011
Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0: A Review
Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 addresses an urgent need. Teaching science as well as health courses can be a challenge in the average online course, due to specialized vocabulary, symbols and annotations, applied math, flow charts, graphics, and charts. For example, courses on organic chemistry, environmental science, earth sciences, zoology, anatomy, teen health, and more can be very dynamic
May 23, 2011
OpenSource Webinar Software: Updated List of Platforms and Software/Plugins
Are you outgrowing your webinar capacity? Do you need more flexibility, lower cost, and more control? Open source may be a great solution for you, particularly as solutions evolve and popular opensource learning solutions such as Moodle offer convenient and relatively easy-to-implement plug-ins. There are open source solutions for many organizational needs (college, university, association,
May 18, 2011
Moodle 2.0 for Business: Review
Moodle for business? It may seem far-fetched, but if you have Moodle in your organization, chances are, you're using it as your learning management system for 100% online or hybrid courses and you have the capacity and experience to use it for more. Moodle has the power and flexibility to be used for multiple purposes within the organization, and a recent publication by Packt Publishing, Moodle
May 13, 2011
Term Paper Help Now! The Writing Survival Guide Enters the Blogosphere
Reposted, due to demand -- Numerous flowcharts, survival guides, and indispensable help for all your academic writing, including term papers, first-year composition, advanced composition, research papers, theses, and dissertations. Now includes 32 guides developed by Susan Nash -- constantly expanded and updated! More than 150,000 happy users!! http://beyondutopia.net/writing-survi...
May 11, 2011
Higher Education Accreditation
If you're enrolled in a degree or certificate program, it is good to review accreditation. In very basic terms, there are two kinds of accreditation: "institutional" and "programmatic." If you're in a four-year liberal arts degree program, it is very likely that the accreditation has been granted to the institution, of which your degree program is a part. If you're in a certificate program or
