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By Allison Miller / November 16, 2012
Emerging changes to the way education is being delivered means that educators need to increase their technological domain of knowledge as well as improve their information and communication technology (ICT) skills to be able to design and facilitate learning in the digital age. These disruptive and transformative learning experiences will then better equip learners for a life of learning in a rapidly changing world.
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TAGS: Design and Development, Digital Literacy, News and Trends
By Amy M. Williamson / August 21, 2012
Online learning can no longer be considered a "fad" that may quickly pass. Instead, teachers and teacher educators alike must prepare themselves for the increasingly technological learning of the 21st century. This article focuses specifically on the benefits of YouTube as a means of reflection, modeling, and assessment for online education courses.
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TAGS: Delivery Technology, Program Evaluation, Social Learning
By Andrew Brown / June 19, 2012
Students having instant access to information through Google or Yahoo is a double edged sword. While students can find answers through public search engines quickly, many are unable to discern valid information from bad information. Students must develop good habits before they enter the workforce. This article highlights higher education teaching strategies for information literacy.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, News and Trends
By Danielle Geary / June 7, 2012
In this article, the author explores the challenges of learning a foreign language online and how the process differs from that of learning other subjects in ones native language. The author suggests adjusting first year credit hours to provide more language practice, increasing variety in lesson plans, and keeping up with instructional technology and the virtual classroom. Leadership themes and the magnitude of student autonomy in the virtual foreign language classroom are also discussed.
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TAGS: Design and Development
By Kevin D. Jones / June 5, 2012
Advice on how to do internal social media is abundant. We constantly hear about best practices, case studies, and seminars, which relate successes. But as the industry has matured it has had its share of failures-companies who have badly botched their internal social media initiatives. From those, lessons are learned but rarely shared. This article shows five ways companies have failed implementing social media and extracts learnings from them. Studying these failures-and how to avoid them-help us to avoid the same fate.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Social Learning
By Nic Laycock / May 31, 2012
In this final part of his series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock discusses how to avoid bad behavior and foster a real sense of community.
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TAGS: Program Evaluation, Social Learning
By Julia Storberg-Walker / May 24, 2012
The purpose of this article is to describe a process for evaluating the return on investment (ROI) of communities of practice. Adapting Kirkpatricks four-step model, Wenger, Trayner and deLaat produced a revolutionary new method for connecting specific CoP activities to organizational results. This article describes the method in order to help practitioners "prove" the value of CoPs to executive-level decision makers.
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TAGS: Social Learning, Theories and Principles
By Judy Unrein / May 22, 2012
Not all authoring tools are created equal. Some require programming skills and a long lead time for development, others are too simplistic to effectively address all of your needs. Enter "rapid power tools." They are easy to use and powerful enough to to create custom learning experiences. In this article, Judy Unrein looks at what's available on the market. Find out which ones make the cut.
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TAGS: Course-authoring Tools, News and Trends
By Aaron Iffland / May 3, 2012
In this article, the use of student mobile learning technologies is discussed. The author then goes on to examine how he, as a college instructor, needs to implement better mobile learning interactions in his math classes. By connecting to the current literature on mobile learning, the author has tried to show how the development and implementation of mobile learning should occur. It is the authors hope that this article will motivate other college instructors to implement mobile learning interactions in their courses.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Mobile Learning
By Nic Laycock / May 1, 2012
In Part 3 of 4 in his series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock discusses how to get started in building an online community by having a clear purpose and having all your ducks in a row at launch.
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TAGS: Social Learning
By Veronica Phillips / April 24, 2012
Video is steadily gaining popularity as a valuable design tool for visually demonstrating soft skills in eLearning courses. But people tend to shy away from them because of misconceptions of high productions costs or the draw on resources. This article provides five tips on when to use video, how to maximize its effectiveness, and how to keep costs reasonable. The article focuses more specifically on using video for behavioral modeling of soft skills, keeping video length short and sweet, generating interactivity with video, considerations for resources and budget, and notes on self-production.
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TAGS: Design and Development, News and Trends
By Jennifer Levin-Goldberg / April 18, 2012
In the words of acclaimed author, Thomas Freidman, our world has gone flat. The workforce has gone global galvanizing international competition. The billion dollar question is Do our students have the skills to succeed and excel in this 21st century market? According to an exhaustive 2006 study conducted by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management, the answer is a grim no. The next question should be "How do we rectify this?" The potential solutions are to redefine, reinvent, and rebuild our schools to mirror 21st century exigencies.
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TAGS: News and Trends, Program Evaluation
By Jeannette Campos / April 12, 2012
Abigail Wheeler talks us through the project management required to develop creative eLearning while remembering the importance of developing yourself along the way.
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TAGS: Assessment, Needs Analysis, Program Evaluation
By Jeannette Campos / April 10, 2012
Craig Wiggins prioritizes paper and pencil over authoring tools and talks to eLearn Magazine about storyboarding as the essential for all designers.
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TAGS: Design and Development
By Mary Burns / April 5, 2012
Immersive environments, such as Multi-User Virtual Environments and virtual worlds, are increasingly being prototyped, explored and assessed as tools to help students master content, domain-specific thinking skills, and general problem-solving ad decision making skills. This article suggests that immersive environments may hold the same learning potential for teachers as for students.This article explores a few of these programs while outlining strengths and weaknesses of immersive environments as professional development mechanisms. It argues for more comprehensive examinations of immersive environments for teachers' professional learning.
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TAGS: Games and Simulations, Social Learning, Theories and Principles
By Reuben Tozman / March 20, 2012
As our use of technology becomes more social, the amount of information shared and distributed has exploded. Understanding how to organize and manage our online experience will be the work of computers not humans. This is the idea behind the semantic Web. In his latest article for eLearn Magazine, Reuben Tozman explores learning in the dawning age of the semantic Web.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, News and Trends, Theories and Principles
By Christine Hipple, Karen Mattingly / March 14, 2012
The ISD graduate program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is well established in educating training and development professionals. Six graduate students who recently experienced an informal learning course reflect on their transformational learning experience: tweeting, blogging, reading, sharing, and growing personal learning networks. Here's their story, along with a number of tips and tricks for using various Web-based tools to help to discover, create, organize, and share.
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TAGS: News and Trends, Program Evaluation, Social Learning
By Nic Laycock / February 22, 2012
In Part 2 of 4 in his series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock discusses what distinguishes a community from a network.
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TAGS: Social Learning
By Allison Miller / February 14, 2012
The need to stay up-to-date is becoming ever more important. Sole reliance on traditional forms of education and training, which are orchestrated by others, means a lot of informal learning and practical experience goes unnoticed and unrewarded. To overcome this more and more people are using eportfolios as personal, online learning spaces to capture experiences and earn recognition or credit toward a qualification; gain employment, a promotion or industry accreditation; or simply achieve their personal/professional learning goals.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Mobile Learning
By Brett Christensen, Guy W. Wallace / February 7, 2012
"Only 20 percent of performance issues are rooted in the individual versus the system (or environment)." You may have lost count of the many times this well-known phrase has been repeated. It's popular, but is it true? And more importantly from whence did it come?
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Theories and Principles
By Kelly Meeker / January 26, 2012
A curator takes objects and creates a meaningful experience by organizing them within a useful context. This model is a blueprint for the future of learning, where the role of the learning professional is to enable meaningful consumption of information.This to do list is your guide to start implementing curation in your organization, with recommendations for creating, collecting and sharing-and building a culture of open conversation.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Social Learning
By Nic Laycock / January 10, 2012
In this first in a series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock defines what makes a community and discusses the importance of online communities for learning and development.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Social Learning
By Simon Townsend / January 5, 2012
Is it possible to hold a conversation with thousands of voices? Multinational firm Deloitte uses Yammer to strip away distance, hierarchy, and service line divisions to enable real-time knowledge sharing among its employees. Simon Townsend was there from the start and watched the micro-blogging tool grow from a small virtual water cooler to a global network of more than 180,000 users.
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TAGS: News and Trends, Social Learning
By Jennifer Levin-Goldberg / December 8, 2011
In the past five years, online learning has augmented significantly. However, the question is, with this increased proliferation in its popularity, has online learning been authentically preparing students for 21st century skills? According to a myriad of statistics and studies, the dismal response is no. Recognizing the mounting interest in online education and whether or not schools are genuinely equipping and priming students for 21st century skills, this article suggests five strategies to not only improve the online learning experience, but to integrate and polish students for the 21st century with skills requisite to capitalize upon for global success.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Program Evaluation
By Anya Kamenetz / December 6, 2011
Edupunk refers to a style of teaching and learning that's part of a storm of disruption invading higher education.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Lifelong Learning, News and Trends
By Guy W. Wallace / November 22, 2011
A learning style is supposedly a mode of learning that is most effective for an individual. It supposedly helps to improve learning results. Why does this myth persist? Twenty-five years of research on this and related themes have not provided any form of conclusive evidence that matching the form of instruction to learning style improved learning or even attention.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Theories and Principles
By Allison Rossett / November 14, 2011
Although we hear many expressions of enthusiasm for mobile learning and support, there isn't a lot of documented activity, not yet. This article describes possibilities and focuses on figuring out why it is not yet happening. What gets in the way of the use of mobile devices for learning, support, and community?
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TAGS: Mobile Learning
By Clark Quinn / October 28, 2011
You should be thinking about presenting at a conference, but you need several things: an appropriate topic for the audience, a good presentation, and a compelling description to send to the conference organizers. In this article, consultant and semi-professional conference presenter Clark Quinn covers knowing your audience, knowing what makes an engaging session, and knowing what organizers are looking for.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Social Learning
By Charie Faught / October 17, 2011
The purpose of the article is to present first-hand experience of developing distance delivery courses, including technical and course development considerations. The article provides practical considerations into the use of distance delivery tools for combining the live classroom experience and includes challenges and lessons learned.
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TAGS: Blended Learning, Delivery Technology, Learning Platforms
By Shelley A. Gable / September 29, 2011
Whether you design classroom training, eLearning, m-learning, or work with another medium entirely, storytelling is a learning tool that possesses the power to motivate, persuade, educate, and even entertain. This article explains how the value of storytelling is supported by adult learning theory, outlines the elements to include when writing a story, and suggests specific methods for incorporating stories into eLearning lessons.
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TAGS: Program Evaluation, Social Learning, Theories and Principles
By Dennis Callahan / September 21, 2011
The Internet has moved from one-way, static pages to two way, real-time streams. One of the easiest ways to evolve with this digital shift is to have a mental model or metaphor that helps you make better sense of this new online world. Learnstreaming is framework for helping you and others make better sense of today's online world.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, News and Trends, Social Learning
By Rick Raymer / September 14, 2011
Is gamification just another empty buzzword, or can the principles that game designers employ to engage players really be applied to the design of eLearning software? What exactly is gamification? And, can the theories of gamification be applied to a variety of projects regardless of scope and budget? This article will address specific ways that game mechanics can be applied to your eLearning projects.
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TAGS: Games and Simulations, News and Trends, Theories and Principles
By Jeff Borden / September 1, 2011
Today's era is one of pervasive technology. Encompassing laptops and smart phones to wikis and blogs, the digital environment makes communication