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10 Websites to Learn Something New in 30 Minutes a Day

Learning something new is always an exciting endeavour to commence. The problem is that most of us get wrapped up in busy distractions throughout the day that we can never find the time to learn the new skill we want.

Instead of using our time to sit through long lectures and lengthy video courses, we can take advantage of all the websites that can help us learn something new in 30 minutes or less.

This article provides a list of 10 learning websites for different categories of subjects:

1. Lynda : Over 1,000 courses with a 10-day free trial to develop your skills in business, photoshop, software, and much more.

2. Skillshare: Ten dollars per month gets you access to on-demand courses taught by leading experts.

3. Hackaday: Tips to make your life better and more productive. Just 5 minutes a day is all you need to learn new life hacks to improve your lifestyle.

4. Codeacademy: Helps anyone build a website through an interactive learning method. Learn any programming language from HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and more.

5. 7-min: In just 7 minutes, this website will go through dozens of routines to get you in shape and ready for the day ahead.

6. Calm: Different types of meditation whit a teacher to guide you step-by-step through the process, even if it’s your first time trying meditation.

7. Highbrow: Bite-sized email courses delivered to your inbox every morning to learn everything from film history, marketing, business, and more.

8. Big Think: Learn from the world’s experts about scientific breakthroughs, revolutionary business concepts, and more in short, chunk-sized videos.

9. Khan Academy: Salman Khan breaks down complicated subjects into simplified concepts to help you understand them in minutes.

10. Rype: Unlimited 1-on-1 private language lessons with professional teachers around the world. Each lesson is just 30 minutes, allowing you to fit learning a language into your busy lifestyle.

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How to transform Tech-Resistant Learners into eLearning lovers

Motivation is the secret to transform Tech-Resistant Learners into eLearning enthusiasts. In this article Christopher Pappas, founder of the largest online community of professionals involved in the eLearning Industry, share 7 tips on how to work with learners who are less-than enthusiastic about interactive eLearning, mobile-friendly online courses, and other tech-centric eLearning resources.

  1. Be clear about expectations and goals
  2. Offer a demo
  3. Encourage group collaboration
  4. Stress the benefit up front
  5. Showa proven track record
  6. Ask for their feedback
  7. Introduce the eLearning strategy slowly and steadily

For more articles on eLearning: http://elearningindustry.com/

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What we’re learning from online education

Does eLearning kill creativity and make traditional universities disappear? Or should we start to view online education and its advantages as inevitable?

Stanford professor Daphne Koller is making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), an innovative model for online learning. By doing this, she is enticing top universities to put their courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn.

She believes that a new model—in which information is given online and classrooms are used for interactive experiential learning rather than for lecturing—could help to improve education.

Discover Lonsdale’s approach in her TED talk.

 

 

Tips for Effective E-Learning

Never heard of it?  You’ll love it.

As pointed out by Atrixware in its site, the fatal flaw of many E-Learning PowerPoints is found not with the audience, but with the presentation itself. They are boring!  And boredom is NOT an effective teaching technique!
Instead of looking at what makes PowerPoint bad, it is good to consider can be done  to make it good.

1.   Gain Attention
2.   Inform Learner of Objective
3.   Stimulate Recall of Prior Knowledge
4.   Present the Material
5.   Provide Guidance for Learning
6.   Elicit Performance
7.   Provide Feedback
8.   Assess Performance
9. Enhance Retention and Transfer

Read more: 9 Handy Tips for Effective E-Learning Slideshows

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