Online teaching and learning provides an efficient mechanism for engaging learners through collaborative learning. Educators/resource persons may find several ways to get learners on the same platform as compared to face-to-face settings since interaction between members in close proximity to one another may not be possible. It provides an opportunity [...]
Homeschooling involves parents and/or hired instructors as teachers within the home instead of enrolling children in a public or private school. It takes hard work, patience, and responsibility to home school. Reasons why parents choose to homeschool: Religion Special needs/disability School does not challenge child to his/her full potential Bullying [...]
There are four different types of bullying out there - physical, verbal, covert or hidden bullying and cyber-bullying. When I was in school, I mostly received verbal bullying. My parents didn’t know about it since I mostly ignored it and I didn’t say anything back to those that were verbally [...]
Many corporate training professionals are adopting shorter learning sessions and courses over the longer, traditional full-length courses. This is to help learners engage and retain information. This is referred to as the “bite sized” approach to learning. This can be transferred to classroom teaching and learning. The “bite-sized” learning concept [...]
Homeschooling is the name given to the educational process kept at home under the teaching and guidance of parents or guardians. This is a new teaching approach for parents and children and a new educational alternative to the formal learning environments. Among the reasons that motivate more parents to teach [...]
Technology in the educational field acts as an important tool for information and communication, offering new approaches to knowledge and relationship to the adult learner. It is about confronting the student with problematizing questions, new ways of learning and retaining knowledge, experiences and conversations with new people and cultures, providing [...]
Learning is a process developed throughout our life; however, little emphasis has been given to adult literacy or the construction of knowledge acquired in adulthood. If you look at the masters in our history, such as Jesus in biblical times, Paulo Freire in Brazil, and Socrates and Plato in ancient [...]
Are you planning to take an online course or have you recently started with an online course or training? Before you begin, it is important to understand that online and face-to-face are entirely different learning environments. One aspect of online delivery, which can surpass a face-to-face classroom, is flexibility of [...]
By: Khrista Cendana There is a new app that is trending right now and it is called: Pokémon Go. Since the popular game has been released worldwide on mobile devices since two weeks ago, many people has downloaded it from their app store on their phones. Some people are even [...]
By: Khrista Cendana There are so many factors on what to decide in sending your child to the right school – for instance, private or public schools? How do you know which is better? What do you need to know before enrolling? In my experience, I was enrolled to a [...]