Posts tagged Online Learning
Ease Learning’s DEI Rubric for Equitable Course Design

Ease Learning recently published our DEI for Equitable Course Design. We strongly believe that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) cannot exist if best practices are not embedded into the design process. This is especially true for online programs. Online Learning should be developed with DEI considerations and best practices in the design phase and with a qualified team of people doing the design work alongside qualified content experts.

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How Learning Designers Collaborated with a Professor to Transform the Student Experience.

How do you bring an online course to life? How do you make it flexible, current, relevant, and meaningful to students outside the ‘classroom’? How do you create a course to be a feeder into a graduate program? These were some of the considerations that went into the recent development of the new online course ‘Morphology of Disaster’ at Tulane University. Professor Regardt Ferriera worked in partnership with Ease Learning to create a program employing instructional design that was thoughtful, purposeful, pedagogically sound, and sets students up for success.

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Equity

The landscape of higher education has changed. Today’s learner requires flexible new modes of delivery. Learning needs to be relevant, grounded in real world experiences, and connected to concrete goals.Learning must be connected to clear outcomes and data. UDL plays a key role in designing equitable learning experiences especially online

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Webinar: Differentiate and Grow Your Online, Skills-Based Programs: How Personalization Helps You Stand Out and Deliver a More Engaging Student Experience

There is no shortage of online skills-based programs for students to choose from, so how do you make yours stand out? Ultimately, it’s about the student journey and experience, from the first interaction with a student through completion, and how well your program can tell its story. If you’re successful in creating a differentiated experience, one that is engaging, personalized and impactful, it’s a win for the student and the institution. Join this webinar to learn more

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Answering the Call for Lifelong Learning - Part 1

More than ever, higher education is being asked to pivot and think about what it looks like to offer lifelong learning options. The online modality is an obvious choice for the continuous learning that is needed in today’s world and as traditional degree students are shrinking in numbers, we all turn our attention to the growing population of learners over 25 years old. Simultaneously, workforce skills are in great demand. If higher education does not answer this call, private industry will,

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Webinar Recording: Developing Online, Skills-Based Programs: What’s Hot and How to Build It

Everyone is talking about skills-based programs, but that’s a pretty broad category. So what’s really hot right now? What resources, tools and techniques can you use to determine this? Join this webinar to hear our speakers share their expertise and provide guidance on how to identify high demand, skills-related, online programs and once identified, how to make them happen.

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