How Mobile Apps Are Helping to Improve the Student Experience

How can a mobile app help improve the student experience? Students expect their university to provide them with information using technologies they are familiar with. Combine this with estimates of 62 million smartphones in the UK by 2015 and it is clear that the mobile app is a technology that most students will be comfortable … Read more

Health Benefits of Lemongrass

lemongrassor lemongrass is a species of grass native to Asia that is used both as a culinary herb and to make a caffeine-free herbal tea. Lemongrass is widely used in Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Thai cuisines, and is also commonly used as an ingredient in herbal teas and other concoctions. Is it important that it smells … Read more

Are you helping your preschooler with math-brain-friendly or learning styles?

Whether you’ve read my other articles in the early childhood education category or researched this topic online, you probably have questions about how the terms “brain friendly” and “learning styles” fit into your work with your preschooler. Surely the goal of both is to help your child learn, so what’s the difference? Is one better … Read more

The ADDIE Model – Why Use It?

If you are new to training development and have been thinking about putting together any type of training program, it is important to know and understand the most basic training tool used by professional trainers; it is called the ADDIE model. Basically, the ADDIE model is a general, systematic, step-by-step framework used by instructional designers, … Read more

Certifications Up Close – What to Expect From These Educational Programs

It has been the goal of educators around the world to disseminate education in a way that allows it to be both accessible and popular across broad sections of society. In an effort to remove the limitations imposed by geography, international educational institutions have worked for years to open their doors and course programs to … Read more