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On Changes, Transitions, and Everything Nice: How Being a Cat Parent Helps Me as an L&OD Professional
About 6 months ago, I started my journey as a management consultant focusing on digital learning. However, it was in the 1st quarter of 2021 that I started my role as a cat parent to my first cat, Toffee. The following year, I adopted a rescue cat, Shadow, and welcomed another one in 2023, Effy. As both an L&OD professional and a cat parent of 3, I have come to realize some quite interesting insights. Being a cat parent actually helps me grow as an L&OD professional, too. Sounds funny, right? But hear me out. In this blog article, let’s talk about changes, transitions, and everything being a cat parent…
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Enhancing Adult Education with eLearning
eLearning has transformed not only basic education but also adult education. It has made learning more flexible and accessible for adults who want to continue their education or upskill. In this blog article, we’ll explore how eLearning enhances adult education.
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4 Digital Platforms for Social and Emotional Learning
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process through which students develop skills necessary to manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others. SEL also helps students establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions. In this blog article, let's talk about four digital platforms to use for social and emotional learning.
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Keeping Kids Safe Online: 3 Practical Tools for Parents
Keeping children safe online can sometimes feel overwhelming for parents. To some extent, the fundamentals of online safety are expected to be taught in schools, with parents having limited to no access to what topics are covered. In this blog article, we’ll discuss different tools that can help parents and guardians monitor their children’s activities and access to keep kids safe online. Google Family Link True to its commitment to helping families create healthy and positive online practices, Family Link provides parents and guardians with various options to keep their children safe online. Some of its features include setting screen time limits, guiding children in accessing age-appropriate content, viewing and…
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Understanding Cohort-Based Learning
Cohort-based learning is an effective approach to education and training that can foster a sense of community and encourage collaboration among learners. This approach provides a structured schedule, shared learning experiences, accountability, motivation, and networking opportunities.
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12 Days of EdTech: Codecademy, a Coding and Programming Learning Platform
Codecademy is an online learning platform that focuses on teaching coding and programming skills. With an interactive and hands-on approach, Codecademy offers courses on various programming languages, web development, data science, and more. The platform provides a user-friendly coding environment, making it accessible for beginners and intermediate learners to practice and enhance their coding abilities.
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12 Days of EdTech: Smart Sparrow, an Adaptive eLearning Platform
Described as an award-winning learn-tech company, Smart Sparrow is an EdTech tool for digital learning and assessment. This platform is used by educational institutions and corporations in revolutionizing the learning experiences of their learners and employees.
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12 Days of EdTech: Stormboard, an Online Brainstorming and Collaboration Tool
What started as a tool specifically designed for companies has now grown to be an EdTech tool for educational institutions as well. Stormboard’s continuous advancement is guided by their vision of becoming the best collaboration platform so educational institutions and companies can turn their ideas into concrete action.
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12 Days of EdTech: StoryboardThat, a Digital Storytelling Platform
As a platform that aims to provide valuable resources to educators, StoryboardThat has various resources available for all users. They provide teacher templates, lesson plans and activities, and informational articles that can be used as references. Their teacher templates consist of various usable templates for worksheets, storyboards, and posters. Apart from these, Storyboard That also has various featured resources about different topics that educators can use in their classes.
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12 Days of EdTech: FeedbackFruits, a Platform for Interactive Peer Feedback
Established in 2012, FeedbackFruits aims to make help educational institutions make teaching and learning easier while honing the future of learners. According to their website, FeedbackFruits aims to be a platform that provides teachers and learners with the opportunity to interact more effectively and fruitfully. At present, FeedbackFruits is currently used in 28 countries by over 200 institutions.
