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Women in STEM - Who inspires me and why?

A blog post by Onlea's Production Artist, Chelsey Zaplachinski When I think about Women in STEM one name always comes to the forefront of my...

Chelsey Zaplachinski

2 hours ago

The challenges of developing a cannabis online course

At Onlea we’re lucky to get to work on MOOCs and courses for different disciplines and subjects. Over the past years, we’ve learned about e...

Jeff Woodward

a month ago

Using Immersive Technologies to deliver accessibility and drive ​understanding

Onlea is excited to announce that we are developing an online version of the RHFAC Accessibility Assessor training for the Rick Hansen Foundation and Athabasca University. This course will be the first of its kind using immersive technologies to deliver an accessible and engaging learning experience...

Onlea Corporation

4 months ago

Getting Things Right

Written by Jeff Woodward We’re coming up on the Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada so as many of us here at Onlea prepare to see our famili...

Jeff Woodward

indigenous canada, Online Courses

a year ago

Why I Love My Job

A blog post written by Jeff Woodward How many of us have the pleasure to honestly say we love our jobs? How many of us look forward to Monda...

Jeff Woodward

production, elearning

a year ago

Networking: It's All Mutual

A blog post by Nikhil Chhikara, Business Development Manager Standing in the middle of a room, looking at people having discussions with one...

Nikhil Chhikara

networking, professional

a year ago

What a New Computing Science Grad Should Know Before Joining the Workforce

A blog post written by Jillian Lovas, Developer When I first graduated from the University of Alberta, I really didn’t know what my future e...

Jillian Lovas

computerscience, programming

a year ago

Finding the right tools for the job

A blog post by Jeff Woodward, Director of Client Productions “Use the right tool for the right job in the right way”. What does that mean wh...

Jeff Woodward

mooc, cameras

a year ago

Welcome To The Team: Nikhil Chhikara

Tell us what do you do here at Onlea? My role at Onlea is to develop business opportunities by working on strategies to increase our brands...

Alma Tang

a year ago

Being Active At Your Desk

A blog post by Alma Tang When being behind your computer all day, a full work day can catch up to you so quickly. It happens to me all the t...

Alma Tang

focus, health

a year ago

Learner interaction and engagement tools in eLearning

A blog post by Adriana Lopez Forero, President, Onlea Corporation Have you ever taken an online course that was so boring you left the cours...

Adriana Lopez Forero

elearning, mlearning

a year ago

To Infinity, and Beyond!

A blog post by Suzy Spence, Animator. To Infinity, and Beyond! As we know the famous line of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, the cosmos is in...

Suzy Kwon Spence

astrophysics, black holes

a year ago

Web Animation Optimization - Making Things Look Good Everywhere

A great way to make interactives more engaging is by implementing animations. The problem lies in implementing these interactives in a way that ensures they’ll run well....

Theo Keeler

astro 101, animation

a year ago

Building a Set

A blog post by Veronica Krawcewicz, Senior Production Designer. To date most of Onlea’s courses have been filmed in front of a green screen....

Veronica C. Krawcewicz

theaterflat, setbuilding

a year ago

Using The Stack in App Inventor 2 - Part 2

A blog post by Jill Lovas, Front End Developer Welcome back to the second part to the Burger Master App Inventor 2 tutorial! If you missed P...

Jillian Lovas

programming, computerscience

a year ago

Be Prepared! How to Nail Pre-Production When You're Making Videos.

A blog by Jeff Woodward, Director of Client Productions Be prepared. So say the Boy Scouts, but what does that mean in terms of production?...

Jeff Woodward

production, preproduction

a year ago

Productivity Tips: A Different Way of Budgeting

A blog written by Tony Lynch, Productions and Operations Manager As a Project Manager, you would probably believe me if I told you that budg...

Tony Lynch

Budgeting, YNAB

a year ago

From C++ Nightmares to PVG: Lessons Learned by the Least Computer-Savvy Girl

A blog written by Mymy, Senior Design Strategist at Onlea. She is the design lead on one of an upcoming University of Alberta MOOC, PVG: Pro...

Myriam Bigras

programming, video games

a year ago

Studying Tips for Stellar Students

A blog post by Nicole Lovas, Front End Developer Since It’s been only a year since I finished school, I still remember all too clearly how t...

Nicole Lovas

studying, focus

a year ago

Using the Stack in App Inventor 2 - Part 1

A blog post by Jill Lovas, Front End Developer Recently I was involved in Technovation, a worldwide initiative to introduce girls to program...

Jillian Lovas

stack, app inventor

a year ago

10 Things That Make Me Happy At Work

A blog post by Alma Tang, Client Services Lead The environment we surround ourselves into affects our mood. A fun environment creates a posi...

Alma Tang

office culture, office

a year ago

Onlea and the Serious Game Jam

A blog post by Theo Keeler, Development Team Lead On March 29th, Onlea had its very first internal serious game jam. That sounds great, but...

Theo Keeler

Serious Games, Development

a year ago

Video Blog: Meet the team "Jeff Woodward"

In today's video blog, we introduce to you our Director of Client Productions, Jeff Woodward. Jeff brings a wealth of knowledge from the TV...

Onlea Corporation

video, blog

2 years ago

Projecting Fishies

A blog post by Sandra Sarmiento, Senior Design Strategist Here at Onlea, we love all kinds of learning mediums. Recently, we dabbled a bit o...

Sandra X. Sarmiento

projection mapping, exhibit

2 years ago

Capturing Inspiring Moments

A blog post by Suzy Spence, Animator. As a designer you can get inspiration from anywhere - when you’re walking down the street and see a be...

Suzy Kwon Spence

adobe capture cc, designer

2 years ago

Meet your virtual client: Developing a Fully Interactive Learning Experience

A paper based on the Software Product Management specialization produced by Onlea for the University of Alberta in 2015-2016 was recently published on the proceedings of the 12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference...

Adriana Lopez Forero

software product management, mooc

2 years ago

Analogue Creativity

A blog post by Neal Merrell, Production Designer. Much like the sweet warm sound of Vinyl, or the grainy imperfection of celluloid film, som...

Neal Merrell

mind mapping, free writing

2 years ago

Business Cards as Unique as our Team Members

A blog post by Veronica Krawcewicz, Senior Production Designer. At Onlea we are proud of our diverse team. We wanted to reflect the uniquene...

Veronica C. Krawcewicz

Graphic Design, Business Cards

2 years ago

International Women's Day: The Strength of Many Voices towards Positive Change

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Jill Bagwe

PressforProgress, MyFeminism

2 years ago

The Gamification of Education - Part 2: Player Types

A blog by Adriana Lopez Forero, President One of the best ways to understand using video game techniques in the classroom is through the len...

Adriana Lopez Forero

gamification, elearning

2 years ago

A Family Day post about work life balance

A blog by Jeff Woodward, Director of Client Productions Work life balance in the age of constant connectedness. Happy Family Day to you and...

Jeff Woodward

worklifebalance, familyday

2 years ago

What can you do with a science degree?

A blog by Jill Bagwe, Vice President (Operations) I was recently asked by the Interdepartmental Science Students' Society (ISSS) at the Univ...

Jill Bagwe

science, STEM

2 years ago

Video Blog: Meet the team "Theo Keeler"

Here at Onlea we do a lot of work with video, from filming to animation to editing to scriptwriting. With that in mind we thought it might b...

Onlea Corporation

making of, elearning

2 years ago

The Making of Graphic Design Fundamentals

Graphic Design Fundamentals (GDF) is our design team’s answer to that question. First envisioned in 2014, GDF reveals the components of great graphic design for those who haven’t taken a four year degree in Visual Communication Design (VCD)....

Veronica C. Krawcewicz

making of, elearning

2 years ago

Course Launch Announcement: Graphic Design Fundamentals

Onlea's first developed course is now live: Graphic Design Fundamentals Our team did such an amazing job bringing this course to life. We co...

Onlea Corporation

elearning, Graphic Design

2 years ago

Video Blog: Meet the Team "Influences"

Here at Onlea we do a lot of work with video, from filming to animation to editing to scriptwriting. With that in mind we thought it might b...

Jeff Woodward

2 years ago

Get Your Sh*t Together: A Guide To Bullet Journaling

At Onlea, being effective with the use of our time is important. It helps us deliver quality services and keep a balanced fun life. This blog post by Onlea's Production Manager, Tony Lynch, will give you fun insights into how to keep your life relatively sane and organized....

Tony Lynch

project management, productivity

2 years ago

10 Things We Learned (or Loved) in 2017

10 Things We Learned (or Loved) Last Year 2017 was a big year at Onlea, we hired new staff, saw some of our original employees move on to ne...

Jeff Woodward

Online Courses, teach

2 years ago

Life After Graduation

Onlea’s newest front end developers talk about their experiences graduating with Computing Science degrees, job hunting, finding and adapting to their first jobs related to their degrees....

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

Welcome to the team!

We are growing our team and we are happy to welcome Alma Tang to join Onlea in the role of Client Services Lead....

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

Visual Shorthand and how it helps us tell stories

One of the most common mantras in film and video production is “show, don’t tell”. Film is a visual medium that affords us unique opportunities to tell stories and share information that other mediums do not....

Jeff Woodward

2 years ago

Seven Steps for Creating Digital Creature Illustrations

At Onlea we create illustrations to help explain and demonstrate the knowledge being communicated in our online courses. Each course has a u...

Veronica C. Krawcewicz

2 years ago

The future of MOOCs

Learn about the future of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from Onlea's founder Jennifer Griffin Schaeffer. In this video interview Jennifer will take us through the future of MOOCs from their benefits to their availability on multiple platforms....

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

How to use Chroma Key with a Greenscreen in Adobe After Effects.

When you see some of our Onlea productions, you can see the compositing of two images. I would like to introduce you to the Adobe After Effects’ Chroma Key tool which we use to easily composite two different images....

Suzy Kwon Spence

education, greenscreen

2 years ago

What Makes a Good Interactive Learning Object?

One of the key components of online courses that we produce is a set of Interactive Learning Objects (ILOs). ILOs are small web apps that allow students to explore interactive course content. This can be as simple as naming mountains on a map or as complex as a virtual project management meeting....

Theo Keeler

2 years ago

The Gamification of Education - Part 1: The Engagement Loop

A videogame is an engaging machine designed to keep you wanting to come back to play more and more. That sense of progression and engagement can be used in multiple contexts including services, websites and education....

Adriana Lopez Forero

2 years ago

Welcome to the team!

At Onlea, each person plays an integral role to create and deliver award-winning digital learning experiences across the globe. Meet our newest team members and what they have to say:...

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

Branded learning experiences to grow​ your business

When we think about online learning, the first thing that comes to mind are courses aimed towards career seekers or learners of a specific i...

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

4 ways to establish trust with your expertise and online learning videos

In today’s increasingly digital media consumption where video traffic is projected to account for more than 80% of all consumer Internet tra...

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

Online Teaching Astrophysics: A conversation with Ross Lockwood

A conversation with Ross Lockwood on our current online learning production for Astrophysics 101: Visiting a Black Hole...

Jesús Ramirez

2 years ago

We are celebrating our designers during Edmonton Design Week

Design is a big part of what we do here at Onlea. Our strategists, production designers and animators shared their insights about their process...

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

Announcing our New President

Onlea is delighted to announce a new leader at the helm of our organization to continue supporting the growth of Onlea Corporation. Adriana...

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago

Telling Stories

Narratives are fundamental to human life. As meaning-making creatures, we look at the stars and see pictures; then we use those pictures to...

Jeff Woodward

2 years ago

Dr. Ken Wong on teaching MOOCs, blended MOOCs and the recently launched Software Design & Architecture MOOC

We recently launched Software Design & Architecture, a four-course specialization produced for the University of Alberta delivered thro...

Jesús Ramirez

2 years ago

Welcome

Welcome to Onlea’s new home on the web. If you’re here today you’re one of the first visitors to our recently relaunched website. If this...

Jeff Woodward

2 years ago

The making of Mountains 101

Onlea’s Mountains 101 is an award winning MOOC that takes the learner out of the classroom (or any room) and puts them into the heart of th...

Onlea Corporation

2 years ago