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Keynote Resources from #LUC2017

Kapp Notes

Cramming: Cramming is actually not a good learning technique. Instead, you want to spread out the learning. There are two powerful mechanisms that are better than cramming for helping facilitate learning : spaced retrieval and retrieval practice. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: __. 14: 215–235, 2000. And Cull W.

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There’s a right way and a wrong way to gamify learning

Axonify

Gamification has been a hot buzzword in the learning space for awhile. All kinds of learning tech—from the LMS to the simple mobile apps—all claim to incorporate gamification. It’s why 80% of Forbes 2000 companies had plans as far back as 2014 to introduce gamification into their learning programs.

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Maximizing Student Achievement through Innovative K12 Publishing Practices

Kitaboo

K-12 publishers ought to employ technology to individually tailor each student’s learning experience to meet their needs and abilities rather than teaching all students the same material at the same time. Did you know that online learning has grown a whopping 900% and more since its inception in 2000?

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Did you know?

eLearning 24-7

Well, just now you learned of these amazing tidbits. As there are a lot of interesting tidbits across the board, so are there within the e-learning space, specifically around learning systems.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

A few years ago I wrote a reflective essay to address that very question, based on two invited keynote speeches I gave in Norway and the Czech Republic, in May 2000. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade.

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Advantages of WordPress over Moodle

LearnDash

Open-source software has ushered in a new era of possibilities in the learning space. For a while now, Moodle has been the world’s most popular open-source learning management system. It has enabled organizations of all sizes to deliver and track learning to (likely) millions of people across the globe.

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The grades are in for Education focused LMSs

eLearning 24-7

Other cool components that are part of this system, Community Content Commons – repository of learning objects, resources – created, vetted and assessed by the Epsilen community, external content providers including CSIS and PBS. I love the graphical charts and the analytics are solid. The system is SCORM 2004 & 1.2