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Telecollaboration and Project Based Training

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A common hit on eLearning is that it does not have the benefits gained through face to face interaction and collaboration with others that ILT can provide. The telecollaboration activity I designed for this project is called the " Handling Customer Objections Showdown."

Project 56
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Help Me Design Synchronous eLearning

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Excerpts from Syllabus Course Description: This course introduces Moodle , the Learning Management System and how it can be used to create an online course site and learning activities. Create social learning activities such as Forums, Chats, Wiki's, and Blogs. Add a graded activity such as a quiz or self paced lesson using resources.

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Promoting Social Learning

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Solutions: While I still have a long way to go, I have had marginal success promoting these social media resources by providing Formal Learning opportunities where the workforce is directed to use these resources for a specific activity. Explaining the benefits is not enough, learners need to experience the benefits on their own.

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3 Steps to a Driving Question for Project Based Learning

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Houghton Mifflin's " Project Based Learning Space " defines driving questions as; " A driving question or problem that serves to organize and drive activities, which taken as a whole amount to a meaningful project." This provides a fail safe opportunity to practice what they will be doing at work. Is it complex?

Project 80
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Jumping on the Tweeter Bandwagon

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The final tipping point is that my Summer school course, "Technologies for Teaching" covers Twitter and it looks like some class activities may take place using Twitter. I am hoping that Twitter provides what Facebook and LinkedIn do not, a running conversation with other professionals in the Training and Development industry.