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Information: Online Courses (E-Courses, ELearning) and Online Course Authoring
What is eLearning ?
by Kristina Schneider
eLearning is a human
performance improvement initiative that employs electronic technology.
By that definition,
consulting an Internet-based dictionary to find out the meaning of a word
is a form of eLearning. Indeed learning is occurring, therefore improving
performance by the means of an electronic technology. Though it is
incidental and informal, it falls within the parameters of eLearning.
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What's Behind the
Explosive Growth in Distance Learning?
There is a ground swell of
support globally to support the growth of distance learning. Market
research firms, government agencies, public and private companies, and
even venture capital firms – those companies that invest in new and
emerging businesses – all agree that distance...
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Real Estate Education
Online Takes Off
To serve the needs of
Realtors® and real estate agents RealtyU® has created a national real
estate learning portal
(www.realtyuonline.com) with over 1,900 real estate courses – real
estate education is thus now available to anyone, from everywhere and at
any time,” says Thomas Mitchell, the COO of RealtyU® – the largest network
of real estate schools in America. See the rest of this article
An eCourse?
Why Would I Want One??
by Denise Ryder
It should be no surprise
that eCourses are an effective marketing tool for you. Just follow the
lead of some of the top marketers online today and you will see more and
more of them are developing their own eCourses. Why...? More
12 Ways
to Use Web-Based Learning
Management Systems for Customer Acquisition and Retention in
Business-to-Business Marketing
by Dave Boggs, CEO of
SyberWorks, Inc
Customer acquisition and
customer retention are important issues for any company today. A simple
definition of "customer acquisition" is the process of acquiring or
obtaining new customers, and/or converting prospects to customers.
"Customer retention" is the process of keeping, sustaining, and/or growing
the relationship your customers have with your company and its products
and services. More...
"Rates
of Computer and Internet Use by Children in Nursery School and Students in
Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade: 2003."
"This Issue Brief describes
the percentage of students in grades 12 or below who used computers or the
Internet in 2003. The Brief highlights the fact that computer and Internet
use is commonplace and begins early. Even before kindergarten, a majority
of children in nursery school use computers and, and 23 percent use the
Internet...." Download the
complete article in PDF format. This material is provided by The
National Center for Education Statistics at
http://www.nces.ed.gov
Testing the Waters of
Online Education: Reasons to Give Distance Learning a Try
This article is brought to
you by SearchForClasses Newsletter.
Online learning is still a
relatively new format for the delivery of classroom instruction. And while
the benefits of attending a virtual classroom instead of a physical
classroom are many -- ranging from convenience and affordability to better
collaboration and accessibility -- there are still a number of potential
students out there who are reluctant to give it a try.
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E Learning: Why Choose
Online Education?
By John Thompson
The Internet boom is far
from over, although it has been taking a slightly different slant in the
past few years; hardly surprising as technologies advance and trends
change. The World Wide Web is the largest resource of information in the
whole world and whatever your needs the Internet can provide. What started
as a bubble has soon become a massive tidal wave and online education is
one of the areas that is still increasing, probably more than ever before.
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