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How to stimulate engagement in elearning

KnowledgeOne

Thus, situations in which the pupil [or student] is surprised by an answer or result that they did not expect are conducive to learning. 2001, for a demonstration using brain imaging).

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Questions of the Week

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Mayer, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction. Animated pedagogical agents in multimedia learning environments: Effects of agent properties, picture features, and redundancy.   Mayer, Heiser,  & Lonn, 2001.   Mayer, Heiser,  & Lonn, 2001.   Moreno & Mayer, 2002.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

It prompted much debate and led to a number of publications which presented my thinking to a wider audience (Wheeler, 2000b; 2001). Across Europe and other western industrialised nations, most universities now have their own corporate e-learning strategies, and most manage their own virtual learning environments or VLEs (McConnell, 2006).

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

. “Situated cognition and the culture of learning.&# You’ve got some GALL: Google-assisted language learning. Language Learning & Technology, February 2008, Volume 12, Number 1, pp. Applying Constructivist and Objective Learning Theories in the Design of a Web-Based Course: Implications for Practice.

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[IN DEPTH ANALYSIS] Do your employees know how to learn?

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Some even speak of it in terms of learning “transformers and emancipators”: “Learning informally frees the learner from environmental or institutional constraints (Mezirow, 2001). These three pillars are: An encouraging learning environment. Practical learning practices and processes.

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers

Big Dog, Little Dog

Social media can provide a virtual bridge by acting as the common learning environment (see Instructional Design — Social Learning and Social Media ). Thus it extends and in some instances may replace the required social interactions that takes place in a lot of learning processes. Informal Workplace Learning.