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Create Autonomy in Gamification and Other Learning Environments

Kapp Notes

Autonomy refers to the initiative and freedom a person experiences when engaged in an activity in the absence of external pressure with respect to his or her personal goals (Ryan & Deci 2000). 2009) First principles of instruction. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. & Mayer, R. New York: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer. Merrill, D.

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009 Interesting that my own post got the top spot. My top ten tips for getting started with eLearning: - Ignatia Webs , April 6, 2009 It ain’t always easy to dive into eLearning. Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals.

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Skillsoft Goes Private

Kapp Notes

Read more at the Skillsoft press release on the topic. SkillSoft also has a salesforce of more than 240 and over 3,000 customers, of which 55% are in the Fortune 500 and 24% from the Global 2000. As content and styles age and progress, subscription based models require the company to continually invest and innovate. The problem?

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, said that however much hype you’ve heard about the web – the best thing since sliced bread or the printing press or sex or fire – whatever you’ve heard is simply not enough to describe what’s going on. > 09-Jan-2009 08:36 126K 1999 Knowledge Manag.>