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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

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He articulates his position as such: “…a one-or-the-other choice between the two is a false choice between knowledge-dissemination technologies and community-building tools. Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). It formalises the informal. We can have both.&#. Amen to that. But how do we bridge the gap?

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10 hot tips for moocers

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Analyse the pre-information of your chosen mooc to ensure it will give you what you need. Sometimes they’re informative, so take notice. Participate actively in the discussion forum. More specifically, use your blog to articulate your learnings from the mooc. Think of moocing as informal learning.

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E-Learning = Innovation = Science

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Rather than see it as something to be ashamed of, avoided at all costs, and certainly not to be aired in public, innovators embrace failure, they actively seek it out – and most importantly of all, they learn from it. A failure isn’t an error or a mistake, but a beautiful piece of intelligence that informs your next move.

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Taxonomy of Learning Theories

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I hope that this taxonomy, along with the corresponding notes below, will assist you in using learning theory to inform your instructional design decisions. From this, he deduced that the amount of information that could be processed at any one time could be increased by “chunking&# it. Overarching themes. Cognitive load .