Ideas to Strengthen Patriotism Education at Schools

March 1st, 2010

Recently the international community is watching closely on the dispute between UK and Argentina over Falkland Islands. Both sides have their own standpoints. It is too complex to tell who is wrong or right, but one thing we can learn from the issue between UK and Argentina is that patriotism should be passed to the mass deeply. Pupils and students, certainly, come as the first group to accept the patriotism education. In this situation, teachers are the critical guides, and schools are the education platform. It is necessary to make the young know what is patriotism, whether through traditional ways like visiting, reading, etc. or the modern technological methods, such as watching videos, taking some Flash history quizzes, etc.

Teachers are suggested to cultivate students’ patriotism from things close to them, which will make the meaning of love for motherland more acceptable.

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Induction Training – Help New Employees Integrate into Team Quickly

February 8th, 2010

Induction Training is absolutely vital for new employees, regardless of whether they are experienced or not. When come to a new company, new employees are thirsty to know more about their new work place, they want to quickly integrate into the new team. Many companies conduct induction training program to help employees integrate into the work environment. However, achieving the induction training goal within a short period of training time is really difficult. How to help new employees integrate into your new team quickly via induction training? Here are some points.

Make a good induction training plan
Making a good induction training plan is the cornerstone of success. The pre-piece stands, not pre-then waste. As an induction training manager, you should make a elaborate plan based on your company’s specific conditions and new employees’ characteristics before implementation. Training content, form, time, responsible person, cost should be included in your detailed plan. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Flexible In-service Training Methods to Reinforce Employees

February 8th, 2010

In-service training is one of the most popular ways to help employees develop their skills in a specific discipline or occupation. This training offers them good chances to make improvements and also companies benefit a lot from it. On the other hand, there are indeed some shortcomings of this on-the-job training. Most typically, in-service training is conducted during a break in the individuals’ work schedule, so it will take up employee’s time for rest and also it is not easy to appoint a fixed time with so many people. Therefore, employers or trainers need to take some flexible training measures.

CBT training offers more freedom.

Computer Based Training (CBT) is used more and more in the big as well as small corporations. It has worked with an astounding rate of success. Distant learning, online courseware sharing system, etc. are robust assistants for learning in service.

training on computer

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Be the Real Owner of Your Quiz: Track Quiz Results More Safely, Stably, Flexibly

January 18th, 2010

HR directors, trainers, teachers, etc. use quizzes for assessment more and more frequently. It matters a lot whether the quiz results can be analyzed and reported reasonably on time. Administrators will know the quiz takers’ situations through quiz reports and take corresponding actions. Many tools are invented to help them track, analyze and report quiz results effortlessly. Some Online quiz tracking systems are powerful and easy to use, but many users have concerns about the data security and stability. Therefore, standalone quiz tracking and processing systems come to remove users’ worries. The standalone systems can be installed on user’s own server and allows HR directors, educators and trainers to track, analyze and report quiz results accurately and flexibly. Thus many questions can be solved easily.

Question 1: How can we protect the quiz data from being purloined?

Answer: Quiz data is safe on your own server.

The big companies, governments, research centers, etc. have much stricter requirements on data security. Once some materials get divulged, the loss may be out of imagination. If tracking and collecting important or private assessment results with online systems, the units or quiz owners will run more risks. On the contrary, data can be well protected on your own servers. It’s just as no one would count large amount of money on street instead of doing so at home.

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Wondershare Unveils Standalone Quiz Management System — Maximize the Utility of Quiz Results on Your Server

January 12th, 2010

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Wondershare Software, the professional developer of e-Learning authoring tools, today announced another assessment solution — Standalone Quiz Management System (Standalone QMS) for QuizCreator users, a secure web-based quiz results management system that allows HR directors, educators and trainers to track, analyze and report quiz results accurately and flexibly.

The Standalone QMS works seamlessly with Wondershare QuizCreator, a quiz maker that enables HR directors, educators and trainers to create Flash quizzes, tests and exams with multimedia. Users can now host Standalone QMS on their own servers which let users take full control of all quiz results easily. Everyone has the flexibility to create, analyze, customize and extend testing reports on demand. The Standalone QMS empowers users to do all this work without any other cost and time intensive implementation or ongoing maintenance of data warehouses.

“After we released online QMS last year, a large number of QMS users show their big interests in online QMS and provided valuable insight and feedback to us,” says Tobee Wu, President of Wondershare software.” In order to meet more users’ needs, we developed this Standalone QMS after months’ efforts.”

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Branching Quiz + Psychological Test ≈ You, He, She or I

January 11th, 2010

Do you feel confused about the title? Ok, let me show you the explanation. Branching quiz is the quiz that can send quiz takers to different slides or questions based on their answers to previous questions. It is widely used in various surveys, especially psychological test and character study. The branching quiz brings a revolution to the relating survey and test field. Though the test cannot totally showcase real character or psychology status of you, him, her or me, we can take the results as reference. Have you been clear about the formula in the title?

Psychological tests are used frequently in our life. Let’s see:

Are you a Human resource director? It is necessary to know the interviewees and the employees’ psycho-status and make the proper recruitment and improvement.

Are you a psychologist or psychiatrist? Knowing more about your patients will make you communicate with patients more smoothly.

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Wondershare Unveils Quiz Maker 3.2, Be more Productive to Make Flash Quizzes

January 11th, 2010

ShenZhen, China, Jan. 11, 2010 — After months’ efforts to improve its products, Wondershare software today announced the availability of QuizCreator 3.2, a major software release giving HR directors, educators, and trainers unprecedented power and freedom to produce interactive Flash quizzes. This latest release QuizCreator 3.2 highlights several new features including branching, Text-to-Speech, multiple hotspots, setting points by answers and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Top 5 Hot E-learning Topics 2009 and Ed Tech Prediction 2010

January 5th, 2010

The New Year is coming! All kinds of summaries for 2009 and predictions of 2010 come into view at this season. Education, one of the most important focuses, has certainly becomes the hot topic. For example, Jeanne Meister, author of the New Learning Playbook blog, wrote a prediction post on the five words to describe corporate learning in 2010. Have you ever noticed these hot discussions? Here we will show the top 5 E-learning Topics in 2009 and the Education technology trends prediction in 2010 to teachers, students and anyone who cares the education issue.

education tech prediction

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Paper-based Quiz, Plain Text Quiz or Animated Flash Quiz, Which do You Like Best?

December 21st, 2009

As we all know, taking a quiz is a good and necessary method to test students’ performance and do other assessment work. Quizzes become more and more advanced and diverse with the development of computer technology. It has been an important means of learning and entertainment. There are three main types of quiz: paper based quiz, plain online quiz and Flash quiz. What are they exactly? Let’s see the sample for each.

Quiz based on paper:

paper based quiz

Paper based quiz is the traditional form and used frequently, but it is too demanding to make one and you cannot share the quiz with others except print it or mail the paper.

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Set Time Limit for Your Online Quiz

December 9th, 2009

With the popularity of Flash quiz, more features and functions are added to quiz maker. Time limit is one important property of quiz settings. It enables users to set time for the entire test and also for the individual question, so that the test gets a strict time limitation and a good guarantee of the fairness in the process of taking a quiz.

Users can set time limit for the whole test; thus all the participants must finish the quiz in due time. If it is out of time, quiz takers can’t answer the question any more. Compared with this function, the time limit for each question seems to make the quiz more efficient in time control. People are also able to set different time limit for each question. Users can adopt this function in several situations like the following ones.

1. Avoid cheating. Once the quiz publisher adds proper time limit to each question, the participants will get no extra time to cheat through searching internet or books for answers. Quiz participants would probably just get enough time to take the quiz by themselves, so the fairness can be comparatively well guaranteed.

time limit quiz avoids cheating

2. Make strict time-limit questions. Some tests require the strict time limit in parts of the questions such as the part called “Fast Reading” in language test. Thus it is necessary to set the time limit for each question in the quiz. Also because of the powerful time control, time limit can add more fun to quiz game. To save testing time, it is also necessary to set different time limit for the questions according to the level of difficulty.

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark