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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

In the late 90’s led by Blackboard, more institutions of higher education and even some schools were joining the online learning experience. An estimated 700,000 students (K-12) took at least one online course in 2005-2006 (Piccano and Seaman, 2007). E-Learning (the actual term) for online education started in 1993.

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A first look at Sakai 3

Clive on Learning

I've worked for many years with Moodle and Blackboard, but have had absolutely no contact with Sakai, so what he had to show us was interesting: In the development of version 3, they have borrowed ideas from social media sites and built these ideas into the VLE, rather than "going out into the wild.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. However, I’m not so thrilled about moving directly to commercial systems like Facebook or LinkedIn, due to privacy and ownership concerns. Steve: Terry, thank you very much. Reference Cousin, G. Learning from cyberspace.

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Harold Jarche is Wicked Smart and We Need to Talk about Curriculum

Mark Oehlert

I love this line " Our education system needs to drop the whole notion of subjects and content mastery and move to process-oriented learning." This isn’t an accident or a flaw in the system; it is the system." We must if we think we will ever see any fundamental change in our system.

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Experiencing Risk, Hands-On

CLO Magazine

walked into a client’s facility to demonstrate how to run a routine diagnostic of a fire protection water pump system. When the client started the pump as part of the exercise, water began to gurgle into the system as expected. What should have been a simple systems test rapidly turned into a nightmare.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia. Now many learning design experts and novices can leverage all in one LMS’ ( learning management systems ) and rapidly create eLearning content with ease. Academic eLearning. This is one of the more common uses when people think of eLearning.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia. Now many learning design experts and novices can leverage all in one LMS’ ( learning management systems ) and rapidly create eLearning content with ease. Academic eLearning. This is one of the more common uses when people think of eLearning.