Creating Highly Effective Custom eLearning Content for your Enterprise

whitePaper | August 15, 2020

Like most K-12 school systems, Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District finds funding to be a constant struggle. The district’s IT department, which consists of 32 full-time staff members, must support nearly 14,000 devices used by 18,800 students and approximately 2,200 staff in 47 schools and three additional facilities spread across a geographic area the size of West Virginia. This task would be nearly impossible without improving the maturity of its IT management. But with the help of certain tools and processes, Senior IT Program Manager Justin Michaud and his colleagues are delivering more value to the district—while adopting a “customer-focused” mindset.

whitePaper | May 30, 2022

Project-based learning (PBL) is an inquiry-based approach that aims to engage students in challenging, active, and meaningful experiences connected to the world outside the classroom (Baines et al., 2021a). Project-based learning can improve student performance on traditional measures of academic achievement, build social and emotional learning skills, and engage students in deeper learning. This means focusing on higher-order think-ing and skills that will help students succeed in college, their future careers, and their lives as active members of their communities. The alignment of PBL and deeper learning is supported by a growing body of evidence that PBL has a significant positive impact on student learning and other outcomes of deeper learning (Duke et al., 2021; Deutscher et al., 2021; Krajcik et al., 2021; Saavedra et al., 2021). This paper will provide guidance for those who are designing curricula1 to achieve similar goals through project-based learning.

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

Informal learning is the powerhouse of learning in the workplace. Studies show that people learn much more about what they need to know to do their jobs informally

whitePaper | November 30, 2021

The Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report is one of the largest annual surveys of global IT professionals. This report, which has collected data from over 178,000 respondents since launching in 2008, provides a detailed examination of the most pressing topics in IT, including highest-paying jobs and certifications, top tech areas job satisfaction, and preferred learning methods

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

One of the biggest drivers of member acquisition is continuing education. For example, a 2020 Member Engagement Study revealed that members ranked professional associations as their #1 most trusted source for professional education and training.

whitePaper | January 6, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic years were among the most challenging times for education in history. While no one would dispute that most students experienced “learning loss” during this time, it is probably more accurate to say that student learning trajectories have shifted.