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Asynchronous Vs. Synchronous Learning: What’s Best for Your Students

Hurix Digital

in 2004 to 43.1% Unbound by time or place, mentors in this form of learning provide reading material and downloadable lectures that can be read and viewed by the students as per their own convenience. Instant feedback from both mentor and peers. In fact, this number is set to cross an overwhelming 50% by 2021. .

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Mentoring in Today’s Workplace: Another Layer of Training

ReadyTech

“One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.”. Mentoring—when an experienced individual assists and guides a less-experienced individual—can greatly enhance one’s professional and personal growth. In fact, in 2004, President George W.

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How do you build eLearning?

B Online Learning

SCORM 2004, Experience/TinCan API? Should it be facilitated via coaching and mentoring? Where are they going to complete the course? On the road? How are they going to access the course? If LMS, is it SCORM 1.2, How computer literate are they? When are they going to access the course? Should this be eLearning?

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Stuart Crabb of Facebook #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

1970 Marshall McLuhan ‘the medium is the message’ 1995 The Internet 2004 Facebook and the social graph – the social layer of the internet which allows people to connect and share. Middle ages the Guttenberg Press – huge advance in mass communication. Mass distribution of thoughts and ideas.

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Cross-Generational Mentorship: Why Age Should Be No Object

Everwise

You’re encouraged by how well you click and think, “This person could be a phenomenal mentor.” . Combine that with how frequently people change jobs and careers these days, and chances are you could end up being mentored by someone from a younger generation or mentoring someone from an older generation. The only problem?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). 2008) Connecting distance learners and their mentors using blogs : The MentorBlog Project, Quarterly Review of Distance Education , 10(4), 3-17.

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Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning

Learning Visions

Marcia Connor’s four-square chart from 2004 (pre web 2.0): Formal (classes, elearning, meetings)/Informal (community, teaming, playing) Intentional (reading, coaching, mentoring)/Unexpected (self-study, exploring, internet surfing) The choice is not informal vs. formal. It moves it on the contiuum. It’s not black and white.