At Vdocipher, our endeavor has always been to make it easy for content creators to make money from their online videos. We get regular requests from individual teachers and small e-learning companies to guide them on making e-learning portals to sell online courses. Websites to sell online courses can be built either using coding from scratch using PHP/JS/Java etc or using CMS like WordPress/Moodle or using ready-to-use and integrate e-learning portals like Teachable, Thinkific, Learnworlds, etc. The first allows maximum customization and requires maximum hard work while the other two subsequently reduce your efforts to build the site. We generally…
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The Definitive Guide to Free LMS Plugins for WordPress
Are you overwhelmed by the vast range of paid and free LMS plugins available on WordPress? You've just started with creating your online course, and do not quite know which LMS plugin - paid or free - to get started with. Free LMS Plugins are Ideal to Create Your First Online Course When you are a first time online course creator you are much more likely to want to test your content with a free LMS plugin. Whether it is to cut costs or to simply test the viability of your content in the form of a course, free LMS plugins offer a…
Secure Hosting for Flipped Classroom Videos
The model of flipped learning has the potential to revolutionize classroom teaching. In this methodology learners are assigned videos to watch before a class. By delivering basic instructions through a flipped classroom video, students are much more informed about the subject before class begins. This makes for a much more engaging classroom discussion, ensuring that the passive learning in the traditional classroom is now replaced by a much more active model of learning. In this blog post, I seek to explain factors you should consider when hosting Flipped Classroom videos. Designing flipped classroom videos is not straightforward. Prior to flipping you need…
How to Build an E-Learning Website: 5 Point evaluation
In this blogpost I discuss how you can build an E-learning website. I make the recommendations on the basis of the following five parameters: Technical Skills required to create the website Features and Customization available Cost of solution for building website Time to build solution Expected Number of students and scaling with increasing numbers The four methods that you can use to create your E-learning website are: Coding using PHP/ ASP/Jave/ Node.JS Content Management Systems - WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Moodle Website Builders - Weebly, Wix, SquareSpace E-Learning Website builders - Teachable, WebAnywhere Here is a video explaining in full detail…
Using Tin Can API in video: Complete Documentation
Tin Can API is a specification for learning technologies that enables Learning Management Systems to collect data from various learning activities that a student may undertake. Tin Can API has succeeded SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) as the new standard for learner analytics. Requirements for Tin Can API In Tin Can API any learner activity on the web may be integrated and logged to the LMS. This includes activities such as reading a blog and watching a video online. For Tin Can API to succeed, all learning activities that a learner performs should be able to transmit learning data…
Make Your Online Video Course More Engaging with these tips
Making your online video course engaging to students is a very important part of creating quality E-Learning courses. Engaging site design ensures that students are motivated to continue your online course, and ensures better results in terms of course completion and knowledge retention. We have learnt considerably about E-Learning design through working with online video course creators. Here we bring our insights on how to make your online course more engaging. This is combined with insights collected from leading E-Learning experts - Christopher Pappas (of elearningindustry.com), Tom Kuhlmann (Chief Learning Architect at Articulate LMS) and Connie Malamed (the eLearning Coach). E-Learning Design Checklist for…