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April 2011 Monthly Roundup: 7 Most Popular Posts

Upside Learning

Lego is more than just a toy that we grew up with. If the results of Learning & Skills 2011 survey by the Centre for Performance Development are anything to go by, technology assisted learning accounts for the larger piece in the learning and development pie. Multitasking Takes Toll On Memory, Study Finds.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. link] January 2011 January 2-5, 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 12 th , Bangalore, India. link] January 4-7, 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Education , 9 th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 8

Upside Learning

Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011. Lists 7 technologies that will continue to engage (and enthrall) us in 2011. This article talks about Pew Center Research study reports, which states that the Internet is now the main national and international news source for people ages 18-29. 11 Ways to Learn in 2011.

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Virtual reality for pain management

KnowledgeOne

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of healthy patients using VR while exposed to a painful stimulus (thermal foot pain simulator) demonstrated a more than 50% reduction in pain-related brain activity in 5 brain areas (Hoffman et al., 2011 and Lagnado L. and C fibres (Hoffman et al., Uses of VR for acute pain.

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How to Measure Social Learning

CLO Magazine

For many learning leaders, social learning is the new toy on the shelf. Industry insiders who have spent countless working hours studying these questions say the answer is yes. In 2011, Pontefract said Telus surpassed its return on learning investment targets by achieving a 69 percent cumulative rating over the four quarters.

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Empathy: Helping Learners to Feel Others - Tip #113

Vignettes Learning

Turkle shares the story of a girl who became so sad because the toy could no longer talk back to her. McLeod, 2011 ). Handbook of Research on Estimation and Control Techniques in E-learning McLeod, Saul (2011). Similarly, this a known downside of video gaming. We also learn by teaching or showing others.

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eLearning Conferences 2010

Tony Karrer

A conference will not be held in 2009 , but it is expected that there will be a conference in 2011. link] February 25, 2010 The International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. May be held again in 2010 or 2011. link] April 12-15, 2010 MySQL Conference and Expo, Santa Clara, California, USA.