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How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills

Absorb LMS

Keeping and contributing regularly to a personal learning journal can be an effective way to encourage reflection and develop critical thinking skills. Third, it isn’t just that writing a journal stimulates thought — it allows us to look at ourselves, our feelings, and our actions in a different way. To write we have to think.

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Four Articles & Papers Defining this thing called #Gamification

Kapp Notes

Here are four papers, articles, and/or chapters that discuss various aspects of gamification and what it means to education, learning and the public in general. WARNING–There is not a general consensus among these articles…that’s exactly why I collected these different views. Gamification and deGamification.

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Reality bites

E-Learning Provocateur

For instance, I recently called out the “captive audience” that characterises many of the experiments undertaken in the educational domain. Hence studies undertaken in the K12 or higher education sectors may not translate so well in the corporate sector, where the dynamics of the environment are different.

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5 Point Guide to Publishing a Research Paper in a STEM Journal

Kitaboo

In the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), academic writing and publishing of papers in a reputed journal emerge as one of the most competitive engagements for many aspirants. Today, innumerable academic STEM publishing journals have surfaced, but simultaneously, the number of applicants has also soared.

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Content Curation & Association Education Strategy

Web Courseworks

National associations or “communities of practice” have been in the business of content curation for many years: publishing journals, books containing the community’s body of knowledge, and face to face educational sessions. These are products the learner earns continuing education credits for taking. Nothing new you say?

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The learnification of education

E-Learning Provocateur

I start this post by thanking Angela Towndrow , a fellow Aussie whom I met virtually via a mooc, and from whom I continue to draw insights on things related to education. Angela pointed me to the journal article Giving Teaching Back to Education: Responding to the Disappearance of the Teacher by Gert Biesta.

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Five training articles (and a podcast) for generating hot ideas this winter

Cloudshare

Educating employees through training is on the rise, but still has a ways to go to improve security within organizations. Zvi Guterman discuss how virtual training can help bridge the skills gap with Training Journal Editor, Jon Kennard. Training Industry’s Top 10 Articles of 2019 – Want to read (a lot) more?