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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: School’s Out – What Did We Learn? (Part 5)
Anne summarizes her experience in creating an environment and platform for social networking by college-bound 9th-graders. As always, the lessons learned weren’t just for the students, and they apply equally to learners of all ages and circumstances.
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The Human Factor: Can Learners Participate At Their Own Level of Expertise?
Scores can be a surprisingly good way to help learners enter the Learning 2.0 environment at their own level of expertise. Here are some great pointers that will help you use social networking-type incentives (points) to build participation, and to track and reward individual users’ contributions to group understanding.
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Creating Safer Peer-to-Peer Learning Experiences
Peer-to-peer (informal) learning is a popular topic of discussion today and becoming more so as social media increase their penetration into everyday life. But is it safe to rely on peer-to-peer learning? Isn’t there risk and exposure from unqualified ideas and unauthorized procedures? These issues can be dealt with, using social media itself. This article shows you how to do peer-to-peer safely.
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Overcoming Obstacles To Avoid
Many organizations continue to struggle with fundamental obstacles that prevent them from implementing effective asynchronous e-Learning strategies. Some of these barriers will invariably lead to poor strategies for learning in virtual worlds or on mobile devices. Here’s what you can do to improve effectiveness in a tough situation.
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Mobile Learning at the Tipping Point
Mobile learning is a valuable addition to organizational learning strategy. Implemented correctly, it provides an excellent means to deliver knowledge rapidly across an enterprise, to ensure that people understand new corporate initiatives, or that new product knowledge is quickly available to those who need it.
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Top Myths & Misconceptions of Mobile Learning
Mobile learning is still getting its feet on the ground, but there are already many misconceptions about what it is and what you can or cannot do with it. Here are eight myths that you often hear, and some expert information to the contrary.
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Nuts and Bolts: Find Your 20%
Good practice in instructional design means being aware of cognitive overload and avoiding it – in other words, not giving learners more than they can handle, and certainly not more than they will use. This month, Jane gives you a strategy (and a visualization!) for dealing with the desire to include everything and the kitchen sink in your e-Learning design.
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Mobile Learning: Obstacles and Solutions
Seven industry experts who will speak at mLearnCon in San Diego next week, answer three simple questions about mobile learning (mLearning): What are the obstacles to practical delivery of learning via mobile devices? What will it take to solve these problems? When do you think this will happen? If you create or manage online learning in your organization, you must read their replies.
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Book Review: The Complete Guide to Simulations & Serious Games by Clark Aldrich
“I wish that the ‘e-Learning’ business had started with this book … before online training as an industry managed to replicate the very worst elements of the traditional classroom experience. I wish this book as a starter gift: a new person starting with this would not accept flying lines of text supported by word-for-word narration as anything resembling a learning experience.”
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Orchestrating E-Learning Projects: Gain a Harmonious Mixture of Technology, Teaching, and Timing
What really matters in e-Learning is the final product. Are your products music to the learners’ ears? Or are they just a lot of noise? Do they deliver what they promised? Here are some key tips to make your e-Learning sing!