All posts by Cait Etherington
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Instructure Reports Strong Second Quarter Performance
July 31, 2017 Cait Etherington
June saw many tech sector stocks go on a wild ride, which led some investors to speculate that the next big tech bubble…
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Amazon’s Alexa: Your Next Teacher
July 29, 2017 Cait Etherington
Many of us are already accustomed to asking Alexa routine questions, but an announcement earlier this week suggests that come this fall, Alexa…
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Why McLuhan Would Have Embraced eLearning
July 21, 2017 Cait Etherington
Today’s Google Doodle features Marshall McLuhan, one of the world’s most well-known media studies scholars. Although McLuhan never saw the rise of the…
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Google Glass 2 is Transforming Workplace Training
July 18, 2017 Cait Etherington
Many of us remember the hype and fast fall of Google Glass. For a brief moment in tech history, people imagined that in…
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Divine Missions: How eLearning is Transforming Religious Education
July 17, 2017 Cait Etherington
eLearning is used across sectors from the petroleum industry to higher education to the military. Increasingly, it is also finding a place in…
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Purdue’s Kaplan Acquisition Angers Public Educators
July 13, 2017 Cait Etherington
In May, Purdue University announced its acquisition of the private online learning leader, Kaplan. The acquisition came as a surprise to some onlookers…
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How eLearning is Supporting Incarcerated Youth
July 12, 2017 Cait Etherington
The United States currently incarcerates more young people than any other country in the world. Although the numbers have dropped in recent years,…
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Australia’s BloodSafe eLearning Program
July 07, 2017 Cait Etherington
Australia's BloodSafe eLearning initiative was established nearly a decade ago to help train medical personnel and reduce the risks related to transfusions.
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Emotion in Online Learning
July 04, 2017 Cait Etherington
Emotion is powerful. It helps us remember, motivates us to keep going, and conversely, sometimes causes us to give up or avoid taking…
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Donald H. Taylor Surveys the Current Field of eLearning
June 29, 2017 Cait Etherington
On the second day of the 2017 International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), which took place at Columbia University on June…
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