Covid-19 has changed the way we regard online learning forever. Never has there been such a prolonged period of school disruptions. E-learning days may have prepared us to teach online, but conducting such exercises on an annual basis may not have taught us how to increase the effectiveness of online teaching. This article will walk …
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Have you been collaborating remotely while in isolation? If you are an educator, have you been issuing group projects to your students? The Covid-19 pandemic challenges students to communicate and cooperate even without meeting face-to-face. This period has prompted re-assessments of work processes and questioned long-held assumptions that the ideation process must be done in …
Are there any differences between an online whiteboard and an interactive whiteboard? Is an online whiteboard not supposed to be interactive? Well, yes, and yes. First introduced by SMART Technologies in 1991, an interactive whiteboard retains the idea of a physical whiteboard whereas an online whiteboard exists in browsers or as an application on mobile …
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Online learning has been around since 1989 when the University of Phoenix first offered bachelors and masters degree online. Online learning is not a new phenomenon, and remote learning has had an even longer history. As the Coronavirus pandemic swept across the world, schools have been forced to close, and students have had no choice …
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic all over the world, economies have come to a standstill and schools have been ordered to close. Students and teachers had to make abrupt transitions to online learning, leveraging whatever resources they could to ensure that students’ learning experience is not compromised. Even as authorities ease regulations and …
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Zoom has grown exponentially since December 2019 when the outbreak of Covid-19 prompted businesses and schools to switch to work-from-home or remote learning. In April 2020, Zoom announced that it had over 200 million daily active users, a 2000% increase from 10 million daily users during pre-pandemic days. Now, Zoom has entered the lexicon of …
Globally, more than 1.2 billion children are unable to attend classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The need to flatten the curve has led to school closures, forcing teachers and students to transition to online learning. Despite annual e-learning days in countries such as the US and Singapore, educators, students, and parents had much to …
As educators, there are two ways that you can teach online. The first is to conduct online lessons in real-time. The second is to record a lesson and share the link with your students after. So, why would you decide to record a lesson? Perhaps, you aim to create instructional videos for students to view …
Worldwide, the tuition industry is valued at over US$100 billion and is still projected to grow by an additional US$112.7 billion by 2025. In Singapore alone, the tuition industry is worth over USD$1 billion tuition. As Covid-19 forces tuition centres to shift their operations online, some increasingly view these developments as opportunities to tap global …
Are you an educator searching for the perfect platform to conduct your lessons online? Are you a strong believer that online learning should not compromise on the benefits of face-to-face lessons? If you answered yes to both questions, you are probably sourcing for a platform that enables two-way communications. When conducting online lessons, the teacher …
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