Instructional Design Spotlight: Alyssa Luisi
Alyssa Luisi joined the TechChange team last week as an Instructional Design contractor. To introduce her to the team and our learning community, we sat down for a short…
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Can Your Course Survive a Slow Internet Connection? Here’s How to Test It
Unreliable and slow internet continues to be one of the greatest obstacles for delivering effective eLearning. Not surprising, right? After all, the whole point of online learning is that…
ICT4Drinks: SDG Card Game Edition
The latest TechChange happy hour deviated from our standard ICT4Drinks in that we invited selected partners to try out our latest Digital Principles game. Currently the card game is…
Building eLearning Capacity with International Partners
As companies increasingly move towards online learning for their training needs, building local and internal e-learning capacity is more important than ever. This was TechChange’s ultimate goal in their…
Exploring the Fundamentals of Online Learning in El Salvador
What does it take to create an engaging, online learning experience? TechChange aimed to answer this question in their trip to El Salvador in 2018. The team, in partnership…
ICT4Drinks: Digi Awards
Thank you to everyone who joined our March ICT4Drinks, hosted with USAID and mSTAR, to celebrate the Digital Development Awards (the Digis) at Penn Social. We hope that…
March ICT4Drinks: Celebrating the Digital Development Awards
On March 29, 2019, TechChange and FHI360 will be celebrating the Digital Development Awards with another ICT4Drinks! Click here to register for this event and read below to learn…
A Retrospective Farewell
As I look back on the nine wonderful months I have spent at TechChange, first as an Instructional Design fellow, then as a Junior Instructional Designer, and finally as…
Are ICT4D and eLearning Ready for 5G?
What happens when "mobile learning" is no longer inferior to just "learning"? As ICT4D professionals return home from MWC Barcelona (along with over 107,000 other attendees) abuzz with stories…
Four Tips to Improve Making Videos on Your Smartphone
Lights, camera, action! — if only it were that easy. Video production is an incredibly important facet of many online courses. Interviews with guest experts, introductory videos with facilitators, video…
Can You Spot the Fake TechChange Student?
Quick question! Which of the following pictures was a real participant in the TC301: Artificial Intelligence for International Development course….and which ones were generated by face-generating AI on…
Alumni Spotlight: Chamal Mediwaka
Earlier this month, we sat down with Chamal Mediwaka, a Summer Intern at TechChange in 2016 who shaped much of our early Instagram presence. We learned more about what Chamal…
Alumni Lunch with Michelle Marshall
On Friday, December 21, Michelle Marshall returned to TechChange for our first "Alumni Lunch" event. Michelle worked with TechChange between December 2015 and June 2016, where she contributed to projects including…
eLearning, Emerging Technology, and Social Good: UNICEF’s Partnership with TechChange
TechChange and UNICEF are proud to announce the release of 2 landmark eLearning courses: one on the intersection between frontier technology, venture capital, and the work of UNICEF, designed for UN…
5 Research-Based Strategies for Better Teaching Online
Nearly two decades of data-driven schooling demonstrate that better learning outcomes won't come from more learner data, but rather from better trainer strategies. And nowhere is this more vital than in…
Kitten Party at TechChange!
To celebrate the end of another year at TechChange, we again partnered with Homeward Trails Animal Rescue of puppy party fame to bring seven adorable one-month-old kittens to the…
A Year in ICT4Drinks
When nerds and do-gooders get together, great things can happen. But what metric can adequately capture the importance of a convening partnership, a casual connection, or even a career-defining conversation?…
Standardizing ICT4Drinks
Our next event is coming up! And we wanted to share notes on how we’re trying to standardize the ICT4Drinks format for 2019. What is ICT4Drinks? This is…
Blockchain Course Reflections
When you hear the word blockchain, what comes to mind? A purely speculative cryptocurrency? An over-hyped technology trend? Here at TechChange, we like to unpack those claims in our…
Feature Announcement: Reporting Dashboard Launched!
Whether we’re working on big features or small ones, it’s always our goal to continually improve user experience on the TechChange online learning platform, and it’s especially exciting to work…