How to Reduce Your Course Development Costs By 90+ Per Cent
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Learners today are presented with a wealth of choices and opportunities for learning. They can turn to Blogs, wikis, social networks, video sites, etc. to find learning content. The problem, though, is that it can be difficult to find high quality, informative learning content among a massive sea of choices.
How much stuff is out there?
- YouTube alone experiences 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. (https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html)
- 200 billion tweets are published to Twitter each year. (http://www.internetlivestats.com/twitter-statistics/)
- There are currently 17.6 billion Blog pages on Wordpress alone (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/)
- The most amazing metric, though, comes from the American Library Association which says that by 2020, information on the Internet will be doubling every 15 minutes.
- Instructional videos from the most popular sites including YouTube, Vimeo, TED.com, etc.
- Articles from Wikipedia and other online encyclopedia
- Blog posts from such reputable sources as Harvard Business Review
- Slideshare and Prezi presentations
- Free online courses
- External discussion forums in the form of Facebook or LinkedIn groups, Reddit discussions, etc
- Etc.
- An existing YouTube video
- A quiz
- A PDF document
- A existing Prezi presentation
- A final exam