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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This great little video from SimplyZesty , an agency specialising in Online PR and Social Media based in Dublin, contains some fascinating stats about social media usage in the UK. Check the website out because they have a free e-book too
 
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The secret of a good debate is to choose a motion controversial enough to attract along a sizeable audience, but with enough subtleties and ambiguities that top quality speakers can explore without resort to dogmatism or play acting. So, how about this? This house believes that technology-based informal learning is more style than substance."
 
Thursday, July 22, 2010
A recent posting on Mashable reports some interesting data from Resolve Market Research based on an online survey of potential purchasers and active users of iPads, smart phones, e-readers and portable video game devices in the USA. Only 28% of prospective purchasers said their main use would be playing games.
 

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Cath Ellis recently set out her ten commandments of e-learning and this prompted me to try and articulate my own. Now e-learning's a big subject if you include all its many variants - formal and informal, synchronous and asynchronous and so on - and if you take into account all the issues relating to its management and marketing.
I've been dipping into The art of changing the brain by James E Zull (Stylus, 2002) for some time now. If you want to explore and validate the neuroscience, then you'll have to read the book I'm afraid. It is change in ourselves because it is change in the brain. quot; Zull recommends a balanced approach. We risk trivialising learning."
The debate was already red hot before this video by Professor Daniel T Willingham from the University of Virginia (brought to my attention by Stephen Downes ) added fuel to the fire. On the one side are the learning and development romantics, all voodoo and crystals, holding firm to their pseudo-psychological beliefs.
Last week I attended a one-day workshop entitled The Science of Learning, which was facilitated by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Itiel Dror of Southampton University. So here we go: The brain is a machine with limited resources for processing the enormous quantity of information received by the senses. unhelpful stereotyping. the interface.
Viv Cole drew my attention on his From the Coleface blog to an interesting article by Des Woods and Henry Marsden published recently in the UK's Training Journal called How Professionals Learn (sorry, but you'll have to pay for the download). The authors make a number of useful points about the unique problems of training this group.

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Thursday, July 29, 2010
We have been interacting with a number of clients, understanding their requirements and discussing possible learning solutions, and one thing that stands out in these discussions is the surge in the demand for mLearning solutions. have always believed that mLearning will be the future of eLearning and have also written about it here.
 
Thursday, July 29, 2010
If you are an elearning/ distance learning / online learning practitioner you should plan to join your peers and peeps at the 26th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison, WI August 4-6, 2010 at the Monona Terrace.
 
Thursday, July 29, 2010
So without further ado, here is my Third Annual Top 10 E-Learning Tools. My, how time flies. Learning Tools List – Top 10 for 2010 is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog.
 

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Most would agree that Twitter was one of the social networking phenomena of 2008, and has enjoyed exponential growth in popularity. The microblogging tool has obvious potential to be used in formal learning, both in traditional online classroom settings and - through mobile technologies - for mobile learners. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar).
In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool.
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 Web 2.0: Web 2.0
Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Comments are very much welcome. Topics eLearning 2.0
Second Life truly is a phenomenon. It is exactly what the name and vision imply: an example of a parallel "multiverse". People will learn much in it, as they might alternatively learn via participating on a real -world sports team, running a real-world lemonade stand, or walking around a great real-world city. Supporting mentor/supervisor/guides.