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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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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

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). Now students can assume more responsibility for their own learning and design their own study trajectories.

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Learning with 'e's: Mashing it up

Learning with e's

Wiki Blog Space Mashups: Combining Web 2.0 tools to create collaborative and reflective learning spaces Recently teachers have used wikis, blogs and other open architecture Web tools to encourage student interaction (Richardson, 2006). tools might be combined and mashed up to create dynamic new learning environments.

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Free e-Learning books

eFront

The Insider’s Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro by The Rapid e-Learning Blog One of the great benefits of rapid e-learning is the ability to create e-learning courses much faster and easier than ever before. Learning 2.0 for Associations e-Learning in 39 Countries Digital Education by Antonio M.

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63 Great eLearning Posts and Hottest Topics for November 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Principles for Designing 3D Learning Environments - Kapp Notes , November 19, 2010In yesterday’s Train for Success in-world seminar, I was asked about the principles for effective design for 3D learning experiences, here is the list of principles that can be applied to make a 3D Learning Environment (3DLE) successful.

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Top 10 LMS websites

Ed App

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application that handles all aspects of the learning process, including the housing, delivery, and tracking of company training content. The introduction of cloud-computing in 2006 saw an explosion of LMS websites flood the market.

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