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How Instructional Designers Can Cope with Continuous Partial Attention in "The Age of Distraction"

SHIFT eLearning

Thomas Friedman stated in 2006 “All we do now is interrupt each other or ourselves with instant messages, e-mail, spam or cellphone rings.”. It is also known as media multitasking, a term coined by Ulla Foehr in the 2006 Kaser Family Foundation report.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

My last blog post focused on the disruptive forces that are currently assailing businesses and the public sector. 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 (McConnell, 2006). and Wheeler, S.

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Corporate pandemics of 2006

The Learning Circuits

Widespread ulteriorsclerosis will lead to the demise of several organizations in 2006. Sporadic outbreaks have been occurring with increasing frequency, and now seem set to attain pandemic status in 2006. They will leak secrets, as staff start to blog and podcast without the censoring filter of Corporate Communications.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

This is the second in a series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future' Yesterday's post can be found on this link. 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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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Cammy Bean took some notes and gratuitously posted them on her blog. Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). 34 (1) 5-32, 2005-2006. Innovations in eLearning Symposium 2006. & Fisher, M.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/22/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

They're the ones already inundated with emails, instant messages, phone calls, and meeting requests.) The future - Paul Gillin's blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise. Wiki of Fortune 500 Companies that are Blogging. 27 (5.4%) of the Fortune 500 are blogging as of 4/4/06". Why face-to-face still matters!

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 2/8/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

When it comes to downloading music and instant messaging, today's students are plenty tech-savvy. Also, see blog. The Story of an Instant-Science Experiment - Marco Iacoboni. If that teaching or training moment has no real impact on the learners' lives, then why should they bother to remember it? Tag: cyberspace.