In the current globalized and dynamic job market, the debate between the value of skills versus degrees is increasingly relevant. Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami's book, "Skills Rather than just Degrees," has sparked significant discussion and, unfortunately, criticism from various quarters. Much of this criticism arises from a misunderstanding or superficial engagement with the book’s core message, as well as skepticism about the

Instructional design is the process of creating instructional materials and activities to promote effective and efficient learning. The goal of instructional design is to create learning experiences that are engaging, meaningful, and relevant to learners.

As universities continue to embrace eLearning as a mode of course delivery, the need for instructional design for eLearning has become more critical. In this lecture, we will explore the basics of instructional design for eLearning, its importance, and how to implement it effectively.

An overview and the strategy for branding and the keys to develop your personal brand as a social media influencer, content creator or digital journalist, to raise the exposure of your reputation and career from relative uncertainty, figuring out who you are by identifying your unique talents, and outline your current position and the level of visibility you hope to obtain in the future. Develop the determination to constantly communicate your brand through many channels

If you are a creator, an influencer or a journalist, or aspiring to be one and wants to gain some benefit online, then, Developing Your Personal Brand is super important.

Online learning is a broad term that comprises a number of instructional environments and approaches. Basically, there are three main types of online courses that I want to discuss how to create and the appropriate tools, platforms and equipment for creating them, the different multimedia resources available both online and offline, open-source and paid versions you need to create your courses.

Using the web for searching academic research sources can be misleading, especially if you are a novice, searching for academic resource online demands researchers to familiarize themselves with online archives to make finding information faster and easier, by so doing a researcher can easily search and evaluate resources.

Citations

Academic writing requires proper documentation of sources, including the correct use of a citation style such as those listed below. You must cite your sources for any information or ideas that are not your own or considered common knowledge; not doing so amounts to plagiarism. Luckily, students can use citation generators that make proper documentation much easier. Your instructor may tell you which style to use or let you choose.

APA Style

As the official style of the American Psychological Association, APA is widely used in the social sciences.

Last, F. M. (Year Published). Book. City, State: Publisher.

Last, F. M. (Year Published). Section title. In F. M. Last (Ed.), Book/Anthology (Edition, Page(s)). City, State: Publisher.

Source: Easybib.com

MLA Style

Commonly used in humanities courses, Modern Language Association (MLA) style emphasizes the use of the author’s name in citations. It also requires a "Works Cited" page at the end of a paper.

Example

Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. “Toxicity of Nitrite to Three Species of Freshwater Invertebrates.” Environmental Toxicology, vol. 21, no. 1, 3 Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online Library, doi:10.1002/tox.20155.

Source: Purdue Online Writing Lab

Chicago Style

Favored in the sciences and history, the Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian citation style requires footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography.

In the footnotes and endnotes:

First name Last name.Title of Book. (Publication Place: Publisher, Year).

In the bibliography:

Last name, First name. Title of book.

Source: Citationmachine.net

With the internet, information sharing has now become much faster, cheaper and easier, participants in provision of services in the academic area have found it necessary to link up and connect to each other across the world through modern technology and communications systems.

We decided it is time we collectively move the power of the Internet for learning from a mere promise to practice. Even though there’s seemingly nothing can replace traditional classroom teaching, but e-learning complements the process and can help reach out to the masses.

Subject to the above observations we thus found it of utmost importance to initiate this program to inform, enlighten, educate and sensitize all participants within the Academic community and research bodies, how to utilize these resources and conduct a genuine research online, like asking questions, how to use the available technology to design a study, conducting the study, analyzing the data collected and reporting results and conclusions all by using the internet to achieve.