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How to Use Pedagogical Agents in Your eLearning

Infopro Learning

In a study by Lusk and Atkinson (2007), it was found that students learned better from an on-screen agent who used human-like locomotion, gestures, and eye-gazes rather than from an agent who was physically present but did not move, gesture, or gaze at the learner.

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Open Source LMS

Tony Karrer

The Learned Man , April 28, 2007 Rapid Learning Management Systems - eLearning Technology , October 20, 2009 A first look at Sakai 3 - Clive on Learning , October 16, 2009 Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source , June 7, 2008 Open source for learning costs less , January 12, 2009 LMS Selection , July 24, 2009 Blackboard vs.

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What is the future of sales enablement?

CLO Magazine

Fast forward to my first sales trainer role in 2007 and the approach wasn’t much different. As an organization considers a more comprehensive approach, a sales enablement strategy may include extensive system training, mentoring programs, role play/simulations, feedback loops, executive and sales leadership involvement and resource-sharing.

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The Power of Listening

Everwise

All of this experience has driven Kennington’s unique expertise as a mentor, both through Everwise and for entrepreneurial students at Columbia University. For Kennington, mentoring is all about the power of a good chat — and of listening thoughtfully. Read on for more on Kennington’s approach to mentoring. For instance, at J.P.

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

Learning with e's

Such interconnectedness and willingness to share creates a new kind of peer mentoring that operates at multiple levels and many degrees of expertise, supporting learning in all its complexity. User generated content has also attracted criticism over issues of mediocrity, lack of accuracy and superficial scholarship (Brabazon, 2002; 2007).

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The Role of xAPI in Creating Powerful Learning Experiences for the Modern Workforce

Origin Learning

January 9, 2007 holds special significance in the annals of modern technology. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released. Mentoring New Employees in an Organization. A Decisive Announcement. Can you guess what happened on that day?

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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). An estimated 1 million students in K-12 took at least one online course in 2007-2008 (Piccano and Seaman, 2009). 28 States (Fall 2007) had online high school programs (Tucker, 2007). 2007, June.