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Learning Styles and E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

A PowerPoint is not an effective means of e-learning, although one person told me what did a PPT have to do with any of this? Gardner in 2000, said there was little evidence for his theory to be true, and again in 2004. As a result, may of the studies I found were back in the early 2000’s or late 90’s.

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

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An estimated 1 million students in K-12 took at least one online course in 2007-2008 (Piccano and Seaman, 2009). Clearly online learning in elementary and secondary schools were well on their way by the early 2000’s, which puts a big dent into the whole “new experience of learning online” argument. .

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Note : The vintage photos in this post are from training conferences circa 2000. According to a survey released last month that was conducted by the industry trade group Meeting Professionals International and American Express, 7 percent of business meetings already scheduled for 2009 have been canceled. Response 14. Response 15.