Like many other entrepreneurs, Miki Agrawal starts companies based on her needs and the needs of those she cares about. When she sees an unmet need, she fills it. In 2005, when her twin sister, Radha, had one of those embarrassing moments during a three-legged race at a family barbecue — she got her period and soiled her bathing suit — Miki and Radha had an "aha" moment. With all the innovation in the world, there had to be a better way. Miki’s second "aha" moment happened when she asked a school-aged girl in South Africa why she wasn’t in school. The girl’s response: "It’s my week of shame." The girl had tried rags, leaves, mattress filling, and mud, but nothing worked. So, once a month for a week, she stayed home from school, just like 100 million other girls in developing countries around the world. Read all of Changing The World One Period At A Time on Forbes.com.

by Maria Teresa Alzuru and Matthea Marquart, EDUCAUSE Review Students preparing to take online courses anticipated gaining professional skills in addition to their online learning of the course content. A survey of the marketable skills students wanted to obtain found that 38 percent chose all 10 of the professional options offered as possible answers. The top [...]

by Sherree Geyer, Healthcare IT News Hospitals that leverage online learning to reduce the cost of continuing education requirements may experience a bonus: lower lengths of stay, reduced readmissions and improved quality indicators. So says Teresa Fugate, a case management consultant who credits online learning tools with lower lengths of stay at Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health, [...]

by Kaila White, The Republic A new free, public online class from Arizona State University can up your skills in skepticism, "BS detection," fact-checking your friends and not embarrassing yourself by sharing fake information on social media. "Media LIT: Overcoming Information Overload" is ASU’s first public, free online course. More than 3,000 people from 126 countries [...]

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It’s no secret that we live in a multi-device world. Google was one of the first to talk about this in its 2012 report titled ‘The Multi Screen World’. However, since the publishing of the Google report, the world has changed quite a bit. Let’s have a look at 3 key trends that indicate this […]

This article aims to give some information about 5 eLearning platforms and the top strengths of each from an affiliate's point of view. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Over the last decade, technology-aided learning is being adopted for corporate learning for different learning needs and varying audiences. This is opening up the limits of a classroom-only approach. Gone are the days when training would be limited by distance and cost. Employees can now avail multiple learning modules every day to enhance their learning. Though online learning is certainly.... Continue Reading

Organizations are alive when people can exert their autonomy in ethical practice. This aligns with self-determination theory, which puts forward three basic needs for people: competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Even progressive organizations often miss out on the latter, described by the authors as an, "inherent tendency toward growth development and integrated functioning". It takes more... Read more »

Joint solution will expand Bloomfire’s global footprint and provide GP Strategies’ customers enhanced access to learning and development resources AUSTIN, Texas and COLUMBIA, Md. - July 15, 2015 - Bloomfire and GP Strategies Corporation today announced a global partnership agreement … The post Bloomfire and GP Strategies Sign Global Partnership Agreement appeared first on Bloomfire.