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4 Tips on Creating eLearning Programs for Digital Natives

Gutenberg Technology

The term "digital native" was originally coined by Marc Prensky back in 2001. The term implied that a new generation of learners was emerging, and that their learning curve in handling technology was much less steep than previous generations - if it even existed at all.

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SweetRush Named a Top Content Development Company by Training Industry

SweetRush

To develop engaging and effective content, you have to keep up the pace of a demanding audience: digital-native millennials, now being joined by Generation Z. Technical creativity allows us to embrace new capabilities and platforms as they emerge, such as virtual reality, gamification , and mobile delivery.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Thursday, June 28, 2007 Emerging Technologies in e-Learning I sat in on a lunchtime WebEx presentation with Gary Woodill -- Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research. The topic: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning. Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings.

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Best Workplace Blended Learning Providers

Roundtable Learning

Their services include consulting, digital learning, enterprise technology adoption, managed learning services, and off-the-shelf offerings. Year Founded: 2001. Their services include custom learning, culture and change, staff augmentation, emerging technologies, and nonprofit partnerships. Digital learning. Design/Build.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations.

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The natives are revolting

Learning with e's

So here, just for the record are my own, and other people's thoughts on the controversy of Marc Prensky's Digital Natives and Immigrants theory. Prensky originally suggested that those who were born before the digital age are immigrants, whilst those who have grown up with technology are the natives.

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Help yourself

Learning with e's

In this post, we take a look at an emerging theory of learning proposed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon, known as Heutagogy. In many ways, heutagogy is aligned to other digital age theories, in that it places an importance on ‘learning to learn’, and the sharing rather than hoarding of that knowledge. Reference Hase, S. and Kenyon, C.

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