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Last modified: January 28, 2025

What Is a Virtual Classroom? Types, Examples & Benefits

Let’s face it: managing a remote team or keeping employees engaged during training sessions can be demanding. Virtual meetings? Done. Email chains? Endless. But what about a space where your team can genuinely interact, learn, and grow, no matter where they are? That’s where virtual classrooms step in. Generally, they are an integral part of...

Last modified: February 12, 2025

What Is a Flipped Classroom?

“Technology will not replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of great teachers can be transformational.” George Couros, Innovative Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Consultan The flipped classroom approach is being increasingly adopted by teachers, backed by advancements in ed-tech and owing to the remarkable results it is showing. According to a research, learners in...

Last modified: February 10, 2025

Advantages & Disadvantages of Computer-Based Safety Training

Everyone needs training. Whether it’s to learn the basics in mathematics, first aid, or how to cook. However, safety training is the flavor of the day, and what we are looking at. Corporations often will require their employees to take courses in first aid, basic hazard safety and workplace safety. But how can they organize...

Last modified: February 6, 2025

What Is Computer Based Training? Benefits & Tools

Computer based training (CBT) boasts of a long history. Computers were the first medium of online learning and training before the birth of smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Still today, a majority of hardware in the workplace consists of computers, although in a modern version. In fact, according to a recent survey, 87% percent of individuals...

Last modified: February 10, 2025

Why Adopt Web-Based Safety Training?

Employees in many industries are required to receive safety training. This requirement may come from the government (such as the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)), from the company, or, more commonly, from both. Because of the many advantages afforded by the online format, more individuals and companies are choosing to pursue this training...

Last modified: July 22, 2024

What are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)?

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been one of the biggest educational technology stories of the past three years. What started as an experiment – when Stanford professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig put their artificial intelligence course online for anyone to take — has turned into a major revolution, both in education and...

Last modified: February 7, 2025

6 Benefits of Blended Learning

Whether you teach in an elementary school, college, or corporate training program, you have probably heard of blended learning, which is an umbrella term for using technology in teaching. There has been a lot of debate about whether blended learning is beneficial for students, or if it is just distracting. However, there has also been...

Last modified: February 6, 2025

6 Benefits of Online Corporate Sales Training

In the wake of this realization, there is a dire need for the less costly methods of training’s such as online sales training. E- Learning, without a doubt, reduces costs considerably. The effect is almost dramatic mainly because there is no need for traveling and accommodation expenditure. Furthermore, it reduces the classroom charges as this...

Last modified: July 22, 2024

How Online Classes Help Develop Critical Thinking in Learners

While the online classroom is a convenient method for instructors and trainers to reach a broader segment of learners, it’s often assumed that the format promotes cursory responses that fail to include deep critical thinking skills. It’s been said that without face-to-face interaction, trainers cannot probe learners to think beyond the simple answer by asking...

Last modified: February 6, 2025

How to Engage Corporate Learners Through Online Courses

Engaging corporate learners in online learning requires knowledge of basic adult learning principles and collaboration. Engaging learners means that the trainer or instructor gets learners involved in the learning experience through interaction with other class participants and tasks that learners deem worthwhile. Engagement also means that learners willingly participate in problem-solving, decision making, self-directed learning,...