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Eating an elephant

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Once you get in the swing of it, it is relatively straightforward to write a blog post. The best way that I've found to write a book one mouthful at a time is by conceiving of it as a part work, each edition being issued as a blog posting. The reality, for me at least, is very different.

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Insights: E-learning design is changing

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Your search doesn't lead you to slide shows full of bullet points and multiple-choice questions, but to blogs, Wikipedia articles, screencasts and lots and lots of videos. Some will specialise in the e-learning tutorials with which we're all familiar, but many more will never get to write a multiple-choice question.

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The beauty of notes

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Erasmus also advised every student and teacher to keep a notebook, organised by subject, “so that whenever je lights on anything worth noting down, he may write it in the appropriate section.” What Erasmus could not have foretold was that his words of wisdom would still ring true almost exactly 500 years later but using the latest technology.

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The Big Question: the place for instruction in an information snacking culture

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The February Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog (I know, it’s March already and I’m late on this one) queries what the place is for instruction and deep reflection in a culture in which people increasingly just dip into things and move on. And some of the most thoughtful people I know very rarely put their thoughts in writing.

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Why micro-learning works for me

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Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? It is certainly disruptive, because it obviously requires much tighter editing and really good writing. Long before the micro-learning term was coined, the practice was widespread, almost ubiquitous.

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Why micro-learning works for me

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Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? It is certainly disruptive, because it obviously requires much tighter editing and really good writing. Long before the micro-learning term was coined, the practice was widespread, almost ubiquitous.

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The quest to know knowledge

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The author encourages readers to contribute to the re-writing of the book using a wiki. He writes: "These established metaphors fall short in an era defined by rapid knowledge development. The print edition of the book has been self-published using Lulu. The author has ". This is not what we've come to expect!