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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Seats of learning are notoriously resistant to change, but change is needed if progress in education is to be made. We still see large groups of students sitting in rows (often in auditoria and lecture theatres) struggling to take notes as a professor at the front hold forth on some theory or debate. Academic roles are changing.

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EdCast the Twitter of Education Raises 16 Million in Latest Funding Round

Training Industry

Phil Antonelli and John Lane wrote in the spring 2014 issue of “Training Industry Magazine” that “it’s as if social software was designed to support the key aspects of social learning theory.” Karl Mehta seized upon these ideas when he founded EdCast in 2013. was sold to Visa for $190 million in cash.

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Passport to Performance

CLO Magazine

Instead of subject-matter experts lecturing to participants, facilitators engaged them to brainstorm and role-play to discover the answers as a group. A Learner-Centric Program To make the training program most effective, the modules were designed to be learner-centric.

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

Tony Karrer

US surveys show e-learning on the rise as training budgets fall - Clive on Learning , April 2, 2009 Thanks to Kineo for pointing me to the Market Update recently released by Ambient Insight which forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 16.3% from 2008 to 2013 for learning technology products and services. platform.