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It’s no surprise that online learning is gaining ground at breakneck speed. It has already reached a global market share of $46.9 billions. That’s half of Apple’s seemingly bottomless cash pile, and is something everybody should consider.

Today, thinking about traditional education, especially private technical schools, entering into a traditional brick and mortar business is utter nonsense. Opening a vinyl shop when the iPod became popular would have been a smarter choice.

Online learning is not the next step: it’s the present

According to a recent research from Eduventures, 11% of US university students are attending online courses. This figure is projected to reach 20% by 2014. Now, it doesn’t take any precognitive skill to foresee how the avalanche effect will raid traditional education between 2014 and 2019.

Online learning technologies are advancing as well, and even countries such as Turkey are actively planning to provide students with iPads. Fifteen millions of iPads, that’s an impressive amount by any standard, and even if it is going to be subsidized by educational grants, should this plan succeed it would be one the most aggressive policies in digital education.

The amount of energy, pollution, stress and even real estate space that online learning can save is amazing. Despite this, most schools and colleges do not offer any kind of online learning program.

There’s plenty of online tutorials but real online learning is probably the largest untapped market around, and one where innovators and early adopters can make the difference and still find a very profitable portfolio of opportunities. From technological solutions -such as the iPads mentioned above- to more pedagogic issues, such as bringing back the inter-personal rapport into online learning.

For this to happen, someone has to think outside the box. The box being, of course, the technological device used to deliver the contents.

Right now, most eLearning is still text based. There’s a significant amount of multimedia based trainings, but most of them are nothing more than a rough remake of presentation software.

Online video training is a different matter. It’s gaining ground both in the form of screen casts, as well as real televised lessons that employ the latest online meeting technologies. Web video education is a key component, and this approach has the advantage of not requiring a video production studio, nor an huge staff handling the technical aspects. Anybody can telecast, and it’s only a matter of time before mobile devices will be granted enough bandwidth to fully cover the demands of a real, multi user, classroom session.

Evaluating the online learning solutions

Among the many studies available, there’s a general -even if not specific- consensus that online learners can achieve better results than their classroom-stuck counterparts.

Is this really due to online learning? In my opinion, it’s also a matter of motivation and will power. People choosing to learn online are usually much more motivated, on average, than those selecting a traditional course or university.

Online learning is still an alien for most of us, an unexpected experience, something we don’t possess the skills to manage entirely. It’s reassuring to know that we seat along like minded individuals, and can ask for help to an human being just like we always did.

Online learners feel different and this difference requires strong willpower to be managed properly. I think this leads to an easier path towards success and may be part of the already mentioned stronger success that online learners enjoy.

Online learning does not stop at traditional curricula

Music, figurative arts, visual effects and sculpture may seem to be activities where a constant relationship between the student and the teacher is required. While most people would agree that math or grammar, such as language learning as in ESL lessons can be studied online without too much effort, the above mentioned arts are all being successfully taught in online training courses. Yet, this is the age of youtube makeup lessons – another form of online learning, even if disguised as an hobby.

The world renowned Berklee music school, for example, has dozens of in depth online training programs. AnimationMentor, is a successful online school that trains animation, both traditional and computer graphics based. There are fine arts colleges doing exceptionally well received online courses. In this case, the media is not the message, or at the very least, the media does not have an impact upon the message.

These are very exciting times for online learners and teachers. There are still a lot of open opportunities, and yet the time is quickly running up. In no way an online learning system can afford to be built around outdated technology, and it’s in the most human friendly devices, the smartphones and the tablets that the key has to be found. User interfaces have to follow a virtual product design paradigm, and operate in a clean, straightforward way.

eLearning has to be brought closer to the users, and made an everyday experience. Bandwidth has to be increased for mobile connections, and limits have to be lifted exactly as it happened for physical lines ten years ago.

A new generation of teachers has to engage into a different way of teaching: reaching their students even when they are out of reach. This is the challenge that awaits everybody involved into online education, be it professional or curricular.

Attract the person of your dreams

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The keys of attractiveness

What is the key that makes someone able to go into a room and influence people to find them attractive?

Some people say it is   something people are born with,

But in reality that’s merely not the case.

it’s not just about looks – just look around and see some of the average looking guys and women with excellent looking partners!

it’s something else entirely !

So how come some people may possess this seemingly ‘magical’ quality that makes people to be ‘drawn’ to them ?

Well the principles of attractiveness start from inside.

it is certainly not things inherited – it absolutely could be developed.

The magic that’s the secret of attractiveness starts with our own self-image.

it’s for the most part about resourcefulness and self esteem, and can be developed by anyone who lusts it. it is also about becoming truly happy inside yourself and loving yourself.

If you consider someone else could make you happy and you are waiting for the person who can make you happy to appear in your life, you will be waiting a long time !

People who are totally happy carry a true charisma and attractiveness. They may have average resources , but their inner happiness and self-esteem flows out.

A large factor of feeling good about yourself is having big pictures in your life. When people know what they want they could in truth seem to have first-class resourcefulness which carries good attractiveness.

Liking yourself is also a key principle.

If your don’t love yourself, people can often come across as a little desperate to other people because they are wanting validation from another person .

Everyone will learn to like themselves – however it may take some practice to get brilliant at it!

So what are some of the principles that may help you to develop good confidence and attractiveness:

1 Set clear big pictures in life – know what you long for. What sort of things in life may absolutely inspire you? What things are important to you? What might give you the outstanding pleasure in life?

2 Learn how to like yourself – you are a brilliant person – you just could not have appreciated your true brilliant qualities!

Write down a list of the things you are brilliant at – if you don’t know, ask a friend. it’s a sure thing that you are outstanding at a great deal things that you could not have given yourself credit for.

Write down a list of your best features . which is often a tricky thing to do also, but it might make all the difference in building excellent self esteem. Again it might help to ask a friend what some of your best qualities are – we often don’t recognize them ourselves .

3 Show a genuine interest in other people – when you meet people you can seem far more attractive if you are more interested in other people than yourself. Ask the other person about themselves and find common areas of interest .

If you can follow these simple steps which I first learned in NLP, you may make a good difference in your life. Many people find that attending NLP courses or working with a hypnotherapist in London will be peculiarly helpful.