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4 Ways Smartphones are helping People Learn a new Language

mLearning Revolution

That said, here are effective ways in which the use of smartphones can help learners master a new language: 1. Indeed, mobile phones have gone a long way in language learning, with the first attempts dating back to 2001 that exploited the use of SMS or text messaging. Voice Recognition Technology. Rosetta Stone on Smartphones.

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Social media and reflection: marriage or divorce?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Hence it seems like social media is having opposite effect in organisation - that social media hinder reflection and deeper conversation. Without those practices the effect of social media may indeed be the opposite: people get overwhelmed with messages and experience loss of control. What is the core of the presentation for you?

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My first visit to China:The keyword is control

Challenge to Learn

I knew that I would not have access to Facebook, Twitter and Google because they are blocked by the Great Chinese Firewall, but it goes much further than that. All I can come up with is that this is due to the incident in 2001 when 5 members of the banned movement Falun Gong set themselves afire in front of the entrance to the forbidden city.

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mLearncon

Jay Cross

At the turn of the century, blogging was brand spanking new, Twitter had yet to be born, and backchannels referred to espionage by double agents. For example, here’s my report on Elliott’s TechLearn 2001. And here’s my review of Online Learning 2001. Besides, learning at the time of need is more effective.

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A new recipe for learner engagement (and how to bake it)

CrossKnowledge

Learner engagement can be seen as the “time and energy students devote to educationally purposeful activities” (Kuh, 2001) and studies show that driving learner engagement ticks quite a few boxes in terms of boosting individual performance. L&D- and HR organization. Corbalan, G., Kester, L., & Van Merriënboer, J.

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10 E-learning influencers to watch in 2018

Matrix

She also serves as one of the moderators of the popular weekly Twitter event #lrnchat. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term e-Learning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises. Christopher Pappas.

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers

Big Dog, Little Dog

If you have been following the blog book tour , then you know Jane's book not only provides an introduction for understanding how to use social media tools, such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and wikis; but is also chock-full of examples. And these examples are quite important as they provide models for learning. Informal Workplace Learning.