Practical Academics Blog
Our Design Model
Practical Academic’s unifying goal is to increase participant engagement. After all, only engaged participants learn and grow. We do this with the power of interactive learning experiences and quality relationships using an Organizational Learning Model, which...
Online Meeting Best Practices
The advantages of online meetings are to save travel time, convenience, and flexibility while retaining or augmenting the benefits of group interactivity. For interactivity, we need engagement; for engagement, we need...
Is Online Learning Really All It’s Cracked Up To Be? [3-Key Things To Consider]
Is Online Learning Really All It’s Cracked Up To Be? [3-Key Things To Consider] Online learning is on the rise. But is this helping or harming education? Gaining knowledge through a screen is a runaway trend. You hear about its...
7 Undeniable Benefits of Group-Based Interactive Learning
“Engagement” has become a bit of an academic buzzword but is still, at its core, a very powerful and effective learning strategy. With the traditional styles of passive learning becoming more and more obsolete, today’s education...
Do You Want To Improve Employee Performance? This Is The One Strategy You Need To Know
Do You Want To Improve Employee Performance? This Is The One Strategy You Need To Know Disengaged employees cost US companies up to $550 billion a year. When it comes to workplace performance, engagement matters more than you might think. From feedback and recognition...
Disrupt Online Learning
The state of distance education is in pretty poor shape. An online class is a lonely, boring experience: most are not really classes, just multi-media textbooks. As a result, dropout and incompletion rates are high. And even worse, learners are turned off learning....