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Lynée Zajac-Beck
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5 Student-Centered Course Ideas to Implement Tomorrow
Want your students to love learning and help themselves learn? Student-centered classrooms have become the hallmark of a seasoned...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Shockingly Simple Ways to Engage Learners in An Online Course
Choices will motivate your learners. If you have very little participation in your courses, try offering choices right from the start....
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Writing online courses? Fail Fast and Fail Forward!
The amazing Ramit Sethi fails sometimes. He even keeps an updated list of failures available for public viewing. Ramit has a mindset that...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Entrepreneurial Mindset Program for Students
Last week, I presented with the great Nancy Barnett of eL3 at the DECA AMPED conference in Denver. eL3 is working to bring...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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9 Essential Instructional Strategies in an Online Course
McRel is an educational research nonprofit with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. They have published numerous studies on instruction...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Articulate Challenge #4: Flatten Up Your Course Design Skills
Challenge #4 was to create at least two slides in a flat design. This was new territory for me, so I referenced The Beginner's Guide to...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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EasyGenerator Review
EasyGenerator is an authoring tool that has been on my list to explore for some time. I found myself with the need to create a branching...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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E-Learning Heroes Challenge #123 – Course Starter Template
I am late to Challenge 123 but was excited to make my submission. It is a blue and green landscape theme. The template includes an...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Storyline Workflow: Is Efficiency the Name of the Game?
I love Storyline. Features galore. Interactivity. Easy to learn. But the workflow? That has been a work in progress. Image from Pixabay...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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A Day in the Life of an Online Teacher
I often get asked what I do as an online teacher. The simple answer is that it varies every day and every week just like a face-to-face...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Taking an Online Course From Uninteresting to Interactive
Let’s face it, many online courses and training materials are death by text. PowerPoint slides are an endless ocean of bullet points....
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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The Beginnings of eLearning and Instructional Design
I began teaching in K12 education in the late nineties when educational technology was boom or bust. Schools were modern if they had...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Philosophy of Online Teaching
Rigor, relevance and relationships are critical components of online courses to ensure that every student has the opportunity to...
Lynée Zajac-Beck
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Using the 5E Model for Lesson Design
The 5 E model is originally an education model from BSCS (Bybee, 1997). The organization works to use research to transform science educatio
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