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How to Use Pedagogical Agents in Your eLearning

Infopro Learning

Pedagogical agents are virtual life-like characters used in online learning environments who help guide the learning processes. Because if you don’t, your learning outcomes will suffer. Pedagogical Agents. These on-screen coaches serve various instructional goals. They: Act as instructors or motivators.

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SHOULD WE REALLY GIVE LEARNERS CONTROL?

Learnnovators

Or should we give full control to the learner, and allow them to completely determine their own learning process? Cut to the year 2001. While traditional classroom training rendered this flexibility unfeasible, I don’t see why we can’t do it in an e-learning environment.

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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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Questions of the Week

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Animated pedagogical agents in multimedia learning environments: Effects of agent properties, picture features, and redundancy.   Mayer, Heiser,  & Lonn, 2001. Cognitive constraints on multimedia learning: When presenting more material results in less understanding.

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Digital natives — how to design and deliver training that clicks

Matrix

Digital natives belong to the 20th century and the term was coined by education consultant Marc Prensky in his 2001 article entitled Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. So that was in 2001. Social Media is an efficient learning environment, not just a useless distraction.

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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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3 Key Concepts That Will Help You Understand Learning in the Digital Age

SHIFT eLearning

In other words, Heutagogy gives the learner the power to determine what and how they learn. It''s the same learning environment that changes at a quite rapid pace. Traditional learning methods and strategies are not only inadequate, many have already become obsolete. References: Education 3.0 and Kenyon, C.

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