2000 learning centers. A Billion dollar business in 5 years. Squirrel, one of the growing educational AI-enterprises in China. Why learn less with good, but slow, e-learning? You can learn more, and faster, with great e-learning. It is about what would be perfect for just you, at any given point in time, no matter time. … Continue reading Next wave’s e-learning is already hear, means what?
Author: Henrik Blomgren
How online can outperform offline, in being offline
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, ones wisely said: “If you can do things better without digital tools you probably should.” However, creative use of digital tools can achieve things that never would have been possible without them. And it does not, only, have to be about winning in time and space. Here three useful examples. … Continue reading How online can outperform offline, in being offline
Bruce Springsteen not only understands e-learning, he knows off-line-learning too
It is sometimes claimed; Real education/learning can only be done by us meeting physically, therefor online-learning will never fully make it. But Springsteen can help us to understand why that is plain wrong. Well, not 100 % wrong, just nearly, like 90 % wrong. But "nearly" do matter, a tremendously lot. Here are the consequences. … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen not only understands e-learning, he knows off-line-learning too
There is room for more than one “Trip-advisor for education”
There is a reason why you don´t always let Netflix decide what movie you should watch, even though they have great AI-algorithms for helping you out. At a particular moment they might actually not know what you really are looking for. Then, how to chose between all e-learning-courses already out there? Here is the answer. … Continue reading There is room for more than one “Trip-advisor for education”
How to use the fact that E-learners have their own way of clicking
E-learning is not only the media you use. It is also for instance about what you can do in order to support the natural way people act when they learn. Here is an example on how to use that. It is about how they click your course. They don´t click it the way you think. … Continue reading How to use the fact that E-learners have their own way of clicking
Your next course will be a playlist that will make Apple Music envy
There is a reason why playlists have become important in the world of music. Streaming platforms already have huge libraries. But how could I know which are the best songs to listen to? This fact can be used in order to create great e-learning, but with limited resources available. Here is what you can do. … Continue reading Your next course will be a playlist that will make Apple Music envy
Gamification with LMS-systems that never will make it
Have you noticed: micro-ovens look the same, all over globe? Ovens do not. Old products are deeply embedded in our culture. Education, also e-learning, definitely is culture. Use it to find out how to use an LMS-system in a smarter way than it is supposed to. It also tell something about the future of LMS-providers. … Continue reading Gamification with LMS-systems that never will make it
A digital version of your natural environment is worth billions
You need a video to your e-learning-course? But you have no money, and no time for it, and you are not an actor. Still you want to achieve something great, and you definitely know your own topic. Then here is my suggestion on what to do. It is actually possible to achieve what you want. … Continue reading A digital version of your natural environment is worth billions
Todays MOOC-platforms is not the final structure
Remember music? Today: streaming. Yesterday: CD:s. But, there was also something important in the middle: iTunes/Piracy. The industry developed in phases. Things that many assumed to be "fixed and final", during the road, wasn´t. Now, could what recently happened in the US-based part of the MOOC-industry be a sign of a new phase upcoming soon? … Continue reading Todays MOOC-platforms is not the final structure
A short-cut to increased value of videos already made
You have already made your video-recording. It is fairly ok. But how about making it gazzlion times better so people watch all of it, and do not drop out after 30 seconds? This short-cut cost nothing, takes 5 minutes, can be used without changing your normal way of working. Evaluate it with your own eyes. … Continue reading A short-cut to increased value of videos already made
How teaching-rockstars already changes the name of the game
The Beatles very likely could play around with their own record label EMI more or less the way they wanted, if that was what they wanted. We have not seen this phenomenon evolving in the world of e-learning...yet. However, here is an example in this direction and what we already today can learn from it. … Continue reading How teaching-rockstars already changes the name of the game
Videos should be as long, or short, as they should be
You already know that people lose attention, just after few minutes. You know it because you have experienced it ourselves. But now there is Big Data on this fact and that easily mess things up for us. We have to understand what all this actually means. It is about how long your video should be. … Continue reading Videos should be as long, or short, as they should be
Benchmark this course, and become a winner on the online-market
Some e-learning-courses already have got million students enrolled, and great reviews. But it is not about how much money you spend. The course I benchmark in this post show what it actually means in practice claiming that e-learning is not about “digitalized learning”. The learning points go far beyond what we historically even cared about. … Continue reading Benchmark this course, and become a winner on the online-market
How to get 3 million people to follow your 50 minutes of Philosophy
"Traffic is King, but Content is King Kong" is a great saying. However, assume you already have traffic then decided to fix your content "backwards". Could that actually work? Well, this guy show that it defintely can. Hold your hat now if you are a professor in Philosophy. He already has 103 million students enrolled. … Continue reading How to get 3 million people to follow your 50 minutes of Philosophy
Start off with an SMS, end up with big global impact
What if students did what teachers suggest? Well, there are actually teachers on-line creating business opportunities based on that simple idea. It is about global spread impact, just with the help of a digital contact. Though; it would be extremely difficult to achieve, without it. You can start off with a simple SMS to them. … Continue reading Start off with an SMS, end up with big global impact
Why people prefer bad online education
How good is on-line-education, actually? Will it change the name of the game on how education at this moment is done, or not? Well, here is an example and a simple way to see it. But hold on to your hat, because it is about customer/student preferences. It is not about you as a teacher. … Continue reading Why people prefer bad online education