by Nicole Greenplate | Sep 24, 2019 | Course Creation
Let’s pretend that we have a friend named Gloria. She is an entrepreneur, and while Gloria’s sales have been steady after launching her business, they recently since slowed. Gloria’s business is in a slump. She thinks that taking an online course written by an expert...
by Nicole Greenplate | Sep 10, 2019 | Course Creation
Last week, we learned how distance learning evolved from snail mail to high-speed Internet over a 250-year time period. We are no longer learning shorthand through writing letters to far-away friends or listening to radio broadcasts for college credit. The world of...
by Nicole Greenplate | Sep 3, 2019 | Course Creation
Many of us here at OmniBiz Services are Xennials, the micro-generation born between the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. We grew up with an analog childhood and a digital adulthood, and are also known as the Oregon Trail generation. While watching Saturday morning...
by Nicole Greenplate | Aug 27, 2019 | Course Creation
Words Matter! Anyone who has ever been a student probably can remember an exchange such as this during their school career. Student: “Ms. Smith, can I sharpen my pencil?” Ms. Smith: “I don’t know, CAN you?” Class: Collective groan Student: “Ms. Smith, MAY I…?” ...
by Nicole Greenplate | Aug 13, 2019 | Course Creation
Depending on your area of the country, it’s getting to be the time of year when students young and old return to school. And depending on your age, line of work, and whether or not you have kids at home, this can either be fantastic news or the cause of end-of-summer...
by Nicole Greenplate | Jul 30, 2019 | Course Creation
Last week, you learned how we help you decide on a focused topic for your online course, and how we work with you to decide what the components of your course will be by making an outline. This week, we will go through how to take your “ingredients” and turn them into...