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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with e's

Engaging them in online environments can amplify the problem. Let's start with collaborative online spaces. It relates to critical writing on wikis, but it can be applied to just about any collaborative online learning space: There is a spectrum of wiki activities that can be used to encourage critical thinking in writing.

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Engaging online learners 2

Learning with e's

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. Today, as many of us attempt to teach online, it's often that case that a lot of our energy is expended on keeping students focused and engaged - and at a distance. Wheeler, S.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2009 January 3-4, 2009 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, Bonita Springs, Florida, USA. link] conferences_events/presidents/ 2009.asp. link] conferences_events/presidents/ 2009.asp Thanks for your cooperation. link] downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009 Interesting that my own post got the top spot. My top ten tips for getting started with eLearning: - Ignatia Webs , April 6, 2009 It ain’t always easy to dive into eLearning. Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals.

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Use of Challenge in Gamification and Learning Design

Kapp Notes

The idea is that the instruction should use a progression of increasingly complex whole tasks (Merrill, 2009, pg. 1981) Toward a theory of intrinsically motivating instruction. 2009) First principles of instruction. Instructional-design theories and models: Vol. White, 1959). North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

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Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009

Tony Karrer

And while I know they all have a deep understanding of CoPs I tend to ask Etienne the theory questions, Nancy the technology questions and John the group dynamics questions. Nancy White and John Smith will be doing a session at LearnTrends 2009 (a free online conference – you should definitely go register).