Posts tagged Skills-based
Open LMS Partners With Ease Learning, Integrating the Skillways Platform to Strengthen Skills-Based Learning Outcomes

Open LMS, a leading global provider of open-source learning management systems (LMSs), today announced its partnership with Ease Learning to integrate with Skillways, their leading skills assessment platform. The collaboration will create new opportunities for Open LMS users to design and access highly effective, customizable, and engaging learning experiences to help learners reach their fullest potential.

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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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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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