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Decided to get Mooc'ed

Moodle Journal

I was also pleased to see that Moodle was being used for asynchronous work with the synchronous side of things handled by WizIQ & Second Life. If they do the job themselves, even if only as a simulation, students can remember 90% (the Federation of American Scientists, 2006). This guide covers: Why use game-based learning?

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How To Create an Interactive Learning School and Engage Your Learners

learnWorlds

Online courses are asynchronous in nature. Group conversations are great for learners to discuss subjects relevant to the material, to network, to meet and greet each other, to boost problem-solving, or even to share their own experiences and knowledge on a whiteboard while adding value with user-generated content. Student Profile.

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E-Learning in 2014: The Four “M” #trends

Web Courseworks

Adapting e-Learning for a variety of desktop browsers continues to be important for content providers, but we predict that 2014 will be the year that “ m-Learning ” really gets a significant look from associations. M iniaturizing Content. One purpose of e-Learning is to make content more accessible to learners.

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

eLearning 24-7

An estimated 700,000 students (K-12) took at least one online course in 2005-2006 (Piccano and Seaman, 2007). The fact that schools did not provide on-going training via an online asynchronous based course is stunning. A bad teacher will not automatically become great by providing online content, let alone instruction.

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MOOCs in the Workplace and Heutagogy

ID Reflections

MOOCs can thus be a happy blend of the offline and the online, the synchronous and asynchronous, and offer a complete course for those who wish to take it but does not stop anyone from dropping in and out of the course as well. Many MOOC-ians from a specific course also get together and arrange meetups in the real world.

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Accessible Design: AIDC22 Recap

Scissortail's Learning Nest

The more we know our audience and how they interact with our content, the more inclusive we can be. In fact, accessibility is Article 9 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the United Nations in 2006. Think Inclusion, Not Compliance. Diane Elkins. The answer, of course, is EVERYONE.

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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

Technical Approaches and Case Studies for Sales eLearning Sales Team Portal for Content and Expert Access - eLearning Technology , October 12, 2009 I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal.