Online learning is the lifeline for many working adults. A report from Georgetown University cited that 40% of undergrad students are also working 30+ hours a week. The flexibility of online learning is enabling these adult learners to NOT have to pick work or studies, but instead, allow both to be areas of focus. That’s the good news for learners. The bad news is what happens when one of these learners has a technical issue with their course
Read MoreAccording to a McKinsey report, 87% of companies worldwide are aware that they either already have a skills gap or will have one within a few years. This is a crisis for both the higher ed and the corporate world. Employers are having a difficult time recruiting candidates with the skills they need; but what is often not discussed is that employers are also having difficulty identifying what skills or competencies are needed for specific roles. Watch the recording of this webinar to hear what Higher Education can do to address this and eliminate the skills gap.
Read MoreThere is no lack of research showing that a skills gap exists and is widening. The impact will be devastating if not addressed. A skilled, more diverse workforce has been proven to be inherently more competitive. So what kind of transformation to our learning systems is needed to meet these increasingly imperative demands and drive job and career readiness? Read Ease Learning’s White Paper to learn more.
Read MoreFeatured speaker, Laurie Pulido, CEO of Ease Learning, shared how educators struggle to produce relevant programs that graduate students who are job ready and how failure to prepare students for real world relevance linked to careers, results in a loss in retention and makes it even more difficult to build future enrollments.
Read MoreSkillways is a software that we developed and believe is going to change the way students learn, the way courses are designed, the way data is used to deliver continuous improvement, and will actually deliver on work-force aligned and skills-based courses.
Read MoreEase 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.
Read MoreHow 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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