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We bought their faces
Published on 2012-03-20 05:51:37
Architela is happy to support Ross and Ed’s novel venture to pay back their students loans. Education and innovation is what we’re all about! > read more
Weekly Coffee Breaks for Sherborne area microbusiness owners
Published on 2012-01-18 03:34:55
No more lonely coffee breaks There’s a new casual networking venture for microbusiness owners, the self-employed and those working from home in the Sherborne, Dorset, area: weekly morning coffee breaks. The idea was conceived by Nancy Weitz, owner of Architela, an online learning and internet strategy business. “I’ve been working from my home office for [...] > read more
Happy Holidays!
Published on 2011-12-31 03:42:11
Fetishising Technology
Published on 2011-09-22 07:48:25
One of the key mistakes organisations make in starting down the road to online learning and training is to overvalue the technology and undervalue the role of learning design, leading to the question: does the technology serve the learning or master it? We may be winning the battle against the luddites, and slowly enticing the [...] > read more
Why do online learners drop out?
Published on 2011-09-19 04:20:02
It’s easy to lose learners in an online course for a variety of reasons. However, I’ve found in my own experience that some common factors can be mitigated by good planning and learning design. Feelings of isolation In any form of distance learning, it is too easy to feel alone and disconnected from others on [...] > read more
Go Global: Break down the barriers to online shopping
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One of the complaints I hear most often from those who reside outside of the United States is the inability to input foreign addresses on U.S. ecommerce sites. Some companies might not support international sales due to an inability to handle interna > read more
How to set up your brand new blog
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Starting a blog is simple if you use a site like Blogger or WordPress.com. You just enter your details and away you go. Or you can have more control over design and plug-ins with a WordPress blog on your own hosted site. In either case, there are o > read more
An elearning cautionary tale I: What went wrong with the online training scheme
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As promised, this post offers my perspective on what went wrong with the training scheme scenario I described a couple of weeks ago: (Original post: An elearning cautionary tale I: Our online training scheme). What went wrong Fundamentals The problem > read more
Why our online discussion didn’t work
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“Why didn’t our online discussion work?” This is a depressingly common question in schools/universities and workplaces, when attempts are made to get people using online systems for collaboration and conversation. The idea is a good > read more
Season’s Greetings
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Happy holidays and best wishes for 2011 from all of us at Architela. Print Friendly > read more
Please get these words and phrases right!
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Or, how to sound more literate than BBC journalists No one expects perfect spelling, grammar and enunciation in an environment as dynamic and fast-changing as new media, but if you want to appear literate and professional, you should keep glaring mis > read more
The importance of contact
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When potential customers visit your website and decide to fill in your contact form and click “submit”, they are taking a leap of faith. They have given you something of themselves and trust you to give something back in the form of infor > read more