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Donate to Help Public Education During COVID-19 with FundMyDegree
Check the new function of #Blockdegree, where students can apply for funding to give exams for free. Funders can fund any student and get their name on a student's certificate as a sponsor. #onlinelearning #FundMyDegree
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How to make working from home fun for your Small Business team during global lockdown ?
How to make working from home fun for your Small Business team during global lockdown ?
Traditional workplaces and managers focus on cost-effective productivity and work is not meant to be fun although they do say "Have fun" when they give you assignment. Reason is simple, they are paying you for work not fun. However SMART managers do know and implement strategies to retain their employees by adopting to the 'work language' their employee understands so that they do not work under pressure yet generate satisfactory goals for the organisation. SMEs do not have the necessary budget and resources to implement all those strategies and that is why they struggle most in scaling their business. Lack of motivation is the single most important factor in sinking a business more than money and resources.
Remember the last time your boss took the team out for a lunch or drinks and you found a friend in him. The next day, how energetic you felt and automatically gave more respect and attention to your boss. Now this is just one of the many motivational things companies adopt in the physical world. How do you implement such strategies when the world is in lockdown and you still need to keep moving while making work fun while your team members are all working from home? In this blog post, I have discussed some less known ideas and techniques to turn work into fun while working from home. Happy reading !
Read more here at this link
https://linkedinstrategies.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-make-working-from-home-fun-for.html
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How to mention Work From Home jobs experience on your resume to attract employers and recruiters?
With millions of people out of work due to coronavirus led global shutdown, work from home gigs have appeared as the bread and butter for survival and that too is now showing fierce cut throat competition due to oversupply of freelancers. Even without coronavirus, there are many who got introduced to work from home jobs due to their situation - either no other opportunities were available or they were perhaps not lucky enough to bag a well-paid 9 to 5 job. But what if the situation changes and opportunities emerge for you to improve your current situation, you go out and compete with other candidates for a regular job?
All of a sudden, you face this question even if you mention work from home in your CV or resume , will the employer going to accept and consider you further? How do you convince them that you legitimately did work from home and your experience is worth the job you are applying for? In this blog post, I have addressed these issues. Happy reading. Read more here at this link..
https://linkedinstrategies.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-mention-work-from-home-jobs.html
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How to make any child an active learner
How to make any child an active learner
Active learning is any learning activity in which the student participates or interacts with the learning process, as opposed to passively taking in the information.
04:44 UTC
COVID -19 LOCKDOWN-CHALLENGES TO HIGHER EDUCATION.
Covid -19 lock down-challenges to higher education.
The world today is facing pandemic as the Corona virus is sweeping its way around the globe and its impact is only beginning to be visible. The pandemics has brought in many deaths, thousands have been quarantined and has led to a serious situation of global health emergency. The need of the hour is social distancing and excellent medical care. The pandemic has led to a total lock down world over and India is no exceptions. As of today around five thousand have been reported and infected by the virus and around fifty have been reported dead. This has warranted a complete shutdown of all the educational institution along with other business establishment. The shutdown of the education institutions has led to many apprehensions among the students and teaching fraternity. However the teaching fraternity has been adopting innovative methods to interact with the students and focusing on the curriculum. In this context I have been trying to analyze the challenges of e-teaching and its limitations.
The first challenge was to assess the student’s access to internet connectivity. Specially, the students from rural and backward class. The students were expected to have a smart phone with 4G compatibility to enable streaming of the live teaching.
The second challenge was to have good internet connectivity even in urban areas to avoid buffering and lagging of the live stream, this can happen when Internet connection speed is inadequate to accommodate the encoder’s bit rate or if there is excess load on the server which will make the application to crash.
The third and the more important challenge is the live streaming focuses only on the theoretical imparting of the subjects without actual use of the laboratory, as technical education is more practical based.
From the student’s point of view the challenges were, the students had to leave the hostel and PG’s immediately due to lockdown and they could not carry their text books and laptops to their native and as such it was not possible for them to take part in the e-learning. The final year students are worried and are anxious to know if they will have an extension of the current semester due to which there joining dates for companies are extending. Students who are planning to take admission in foreign universities and who want to pursue their higher education in India are worried that due to this lockdown they might have to lose one year. I have also been counselling the students to instill confidence in them.
The challenges however are minimized with the use of many e-teaching or e-learning apps. The apps such ass Google class room, Zoom, Easy Class, Go To Meeting, Remind, Slack and many others have been adopted to reach the students as far as possible. Now the challenge was to select an app in among the ocean of applications available on the internet catering to every ones needs which was not only low data consuming but had better stability during the live streaming.
I have used different apps for different purposes for teaching the students for the live streaming / conferences/ lecture series zoom app has been used. For assigning the students assignments I have used the Easy Class app. For students who cannot join the online class room I have uploaded the PPT in digital share an online platform so that the students can download the PPT whenever they get internet access and any doubt clarification is conducted through normal calls.
To conclude, the students have accepted the online teaching courses with open heart. They are really happy that I and my Institution are putting so many efforts to keep the curriculum on track amidst the lockdown.
On top of all the issues and against the backdrop of these challenges, I believe that Online Education is “not a substitute but an appendage to classroom teaching and other methodologies. It is a temporary aid during the difficult situation that we are facing”
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Fashion Designing Colleges in UP
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Research on the Transition to Remote Teaching During COVID-19
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Research on Transitioning to Teach Remotely
Attention teachers! My colleagues and I are currently recruiting PK-12 teachers to complete a survey for our study entitled "Understanding Teacher Self-Efficacy During a Transition to Remote Instruction." We are interested in understanding how teachers are continuing their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you in advance for your participation!
22:24 UTC
Free Quiz Making Tools for Teachers and Schools (COVID-19)
KwikSurveys is offering its Professional plan for free to Teachers and Schools to help them engage with and track the progress of students at home during the COVID quarantine.
The Pro plan comes with all our features to create online quizzes. These include:
- Automated Scoring
- Response Tracking
- Segment and compare results
- GDPR Compliance
- Invite Colleagues to join your Team
- Collaboration (with Teams)
https://kwiksurveys.com/coronavirus-free-distance-learning-tools
11:09 UTC
Research on the Transition to Remote Instruction During COVID-19
Attention teachers! My colleagues and I are currently recruiting PK-12 teachers to complete a survey for our study entitled "Understanding Teacher Self-Efficacy During a Transition to Remote Instruction." We are interested in understanding how teachers are continuing their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you in advance for your participation!
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Research on Teaching Remotely
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personalized learning
A fascinating podcast on reforming schools to move toward personalized learning. Anyone know of any non-profit organizations that are part of a movement for this kind of reform?
http://blogs.wgbh.org/innovation-hub/2020/2/28/reinventing-schools-era-innovation/
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