edX for Business vs. Renaissance myON® News, Powered by News-O-Matic

edx is really helpful for learning and growing your skills in both personal and professional aspects. It helped us learn all the business concepts which were required for our company. We chose certification after auditing a number of courses. It was definitely a terrific tool for professionals who were self-learning.

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I think this is a great tool for middle school students, as they are starting to become aware of the world around them and topics that are going on in our country and world. In this digital age, students need to learn the difference between "fake news" and unbiased news reports. The interactive features, as well as letting them read articles based off their interests, is perfect for middle school aged children.

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• Provides certification after completion of course
• Provides eLearning from home
• They have a broad variety of courses for all business owners

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• A variety of article
• 3 different Lexile levels
• English and Spanish

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• Following forum posts when there are thousands of participants is clunky
• The feature that is supposed to bookmark your progress and start you up back where you left off is rarely accurate

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• Maybe if they added a local or state feature...

Renaissance has always had a great online help section with videos and articles. They also have an online community for users to discuss ways to use their products. They have free webinars available to users as well. Most one-on-one learning sessions are done by our instructional facilitators in our county

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edX for Business seemed to be quite similiar to other competitors in terms of methodology and formats. In our case, courses themes availability were very important, because the challenge was to find relevant content to support pre-defined learning tracks. We found most of them on edX for Business catalog. The posibility to integrate them into other platforms was also an important decision factor.

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I like myON News more than any other product due to the variety of articles along with providing different Lexile levels. The Comprehension questions are also a great added feature. This is the complete package website, you have everything you need in one site. Students do not have to go to multiple websites to complete the activities.

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• There is no way to try the course for free to check if the content is interesting
• Valuable certificates for the cv and linkdln
• Well renamed certifications in the job market

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• The kids are up to date on events.