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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning. Delfino, M.,

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. The dominating authoring tool by far, was Authorware. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers. Dreamweaver was the tool to use for web design and development.

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Work in progress

Learning with e's

More importantly, such activities have been shown to be very beneficial for all those who participate to learn together (Wheeler et al, 2008). If there is a vertical, hierarchical division of labour, where some members of the community exert greater power over others or attempt to assume a higher status, conflict may result (Thorne, 2000).

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Humour and Learning in 3 Questions

KnowledgeOne

If we believe that skilfully handled humour can be a pedagogical tool, clumsy humour can, on the contrary, prove to be anti-pedagogical and cause harm to both the learner and the teacher. In the classroom, humour is most often limited – for better or worse – to spontaneous acts, when it could be used (or avoided!) more conscientiously.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit. Changing Times It is now time to take stock. or the ‘social web’. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. van Dijk, J.

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Using Social Media to Improve Workplace Learning

Janet Clarey

and this one “ideal online community&# : Le slides: Using Social Media Tools To Improve Workplace Learning. Some quotes and talking points: “Social learning technologies must be seen as the medium for relationship creation, not information exchange.&# (Digenti, 2000). I gathered up text from the chat box. Digenti, D.

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Industry Review: All About MOOCs

Trivantis

The concept of MOOCs has been around for decades, but Dave Cormier is credited with coining the term “MOOC” to describe the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course delivered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008. Over 2000 people around the world participated in this course online, for free. Khan Academy.