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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

Later, as an education academic I collaborated with several medical scientists to write position papers in a range of technology applications in bioscience and medicine. Exploring medical technologies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning.

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The State of Sales Training in 2012: Top Trends and Takeaways

Mindflash

On December 7, 2011 ESR delivered a webinar presentation on the state of sales training (download the MP3 or PDF—free registration required). Here are some of the points I made during the event, but first, a quick review of 2011. Here are some of the points I made during the event, but first, a quick review of 2011. (A

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Across the Twitterverse

Learning with e's

The 2011 Edublog Awards have come around again with frightening speed, and once again this year I am both honoured and humbled to have been nominated in two categories - best individual blog and best individual tweeter (for my @timbuckteeth account). It's that time of the year when the edublog community honours its members with awards.

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Writer's block

Learning with e's

Anyone who writes regularly will tell you this: There are times when you struggle to write something worthwhile. At such times, I tend to either write rubbish and then ditch it (boy, you should read some of my rejects - you'd laugh yourself sick), or more likely, walk away from the page/screen and go and do something else instead.

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An audience with.

Learning with e's

Mindful of these theories, I have recently been working alongside students to encourage them to write for an audience. Normally, in higher education, students write for an audience of one. They write essays, projects and dissertations that will be read only by their tutor or marker. Nothing new in that, you may think.

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Embrace the medium

Learning with e's

One of the perennial problems teachers face, especially in early years education, is trying to get children to write. The main problem is that children are expected to write in a vacuum, for an audience of one (the teacher). In an article entitled Could blogging be the key to raising a generation of great writers?