E-Learning and the Potential for Global Education

“If Bill Gates is excited about online education, you should be too,” says Anna Malczyk, a communications executive at GetSmarter- a South African online training firm.

The internet has changed the way we live and the way we work. So, asks Malczyk, why hasn’t the education sector caught on? It’s true that online education has expanded and that it’s a popular learning platform for non-traditional students, but in other ways, says Malczyk, the online education sector has a lot of catching up to do. In other words, online education needs to become much more global and much more expansive.

Bill Gates, a champion of the online education movement, believes that the internet can “dramatically improve global education,” but a few things need to be done first. The amount of information and content on the Web is vast. Students often pull from this storage of information and college educators are beginning to make their courses and other learning resources available for free online.But, what Gates suggests and Malczyk reiterates is the need for structuring. “It’s not enough just to have good content,” says Malczyk, “it needs to be organized in a useful way and backed up with a solid teaching support network.” Once this is done, the real learning can start. And, unlike in a traditional classroom, students across the globe will be able to have instant access to whatever learning resources and materials they need.

In addition, technology needs to be both better implemented and further expanded. Working out of South Africa, Malczyk sees this first hand. She calls underdeveloped computer skills and limited access considerable obstacles to South Africans. But, she notes, the potential undoubtedly exists and needs to be further developed. Moreover, says Malczyk, with iPads and other E-readers fueling the shift towards online education, educators need to continue thinking of innovative ways to utilize technology for learning.

The online education sector needs to catch up in order to fulfill its mission of educating students digitally. It needs to continue to expand in order to further provide all deserving students-across the world, with an accessible and flexible way to learn. Malczyk like Gates believes that education is “the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things.”

Get Started on the Internet With an Affordable Home Based Business – 3 Reasons Why You Should Join

If you want to get started on the Internet the right way then it is essential for you to join an affordable home based business. There are going to be many ways of making money online but one of the best ways and the true legit way to go will be with a home based business that is affordable to join.I will be giving you 3 reasons why joining an affordable home based business is the best move to make when you are starting out online.Reason #1 Make Profit FasterBy joining an affordable home based business you will be able to make profit faster since you won’t be paying a lot of money to get involved in the business. Remember achieving profit is your main goal and making this move is the best way to go.Reason #2 More People Will JoinSince the opportunity is affordable more people will join and get involved in the business. The same way you saw the opportunity as being very affordable and a good one to get started with other people will see it as well.Reason #3 More Money For PromotingYou will have more money to invest in promoting your business since you don’t have to put a lot into it from getting involved. The key to achieving results in your business is to promote it so the more money you have to invest the more results you are going to get.Now that you understand some of the reasons why you should join an affordable home based business it is going to be up to you to do some research and choose the right business to join.

Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.