August, 2011

Experiencing eLearning

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Weekly Bookmarks (8/21/11)

Experiencing eLearning

The Human Factor: How Gender Differences Matter in Software Training by Mary Arnold : Learning Solutions Magazine. If your software training includes time to explore or “tinker,&# men and women will have different rates of success. A strategic approach may be better than going through individual features. This research focused on adding new features with an audience who was already familiar with the software; I’m not sure the same training technique would work with beginners with an

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Weekly Bookmarks (8/7/2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Thinking Frameworks. Review of Bloom’s Taxonomy, including problems and the revised version, with information about the differences between factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. tags: bloom learning education. Those teachers who keep a list of question prompts relating to the various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy undoubtedly do a better job of encouraging higher-order thinking in their students than those who have no such

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Questioning Gagné and Bloom’s Relevance

Experiencing eLearning

Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Hirsh. Lauren needed to do an informational interview for her masters program, and I needed some new profile pictures. (The pictures turned out terrific; I’m sure I got the better end of the bargain.). During the interview, Lauren asked some very thoughtful questions about the relationship between theory and practice.

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