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Education Balancing Act: Asynchronous, Synchronous, and Blended Learning

Association eLearning

Asynchronous/ Self-Paced. Asynchronous refers to eLearning offerings you take on your own. Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn. There are many different types of eLearning, so it isn’t surprising that they can be divided into categories. Let’s explore them and take a look at their advantages and disadvantages.

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10 invaluable tips to develop asynchronous learning

Docebo

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been tasked with creating an asynchronous eLearning course. We’ve pulled together 10 asynchronous learning tips to get all the information you need in a fraction of the time. Synchronous vs. asynchronous learning. Feel free to skip down to the first tip if this is old news to you.).

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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Summary: “Debates rage about the appropriateness of using social networking in teaching, with arguments ranging from waste of time and distraction from academic goals to needed to reach net generation student. An example of using a social networking tool, Ning, in an online class is reported.&#. Three main points.

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Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning: Exploring the Differences and What’s Best for Your Organization

IT Training Department Blog

Both asynchronous learning and synchronous learning have been around for a long time though synchronous has the edge for longevity at least. But if writing came first then I bet asynchronous learning would also have come first. Asynchronous learning is done at employee’s own pace.

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Formal learning & social networking

Clark Quinn

is about informal learning, but the organization was moving to using social networking tools to scaffold their move from face-to-face to more online learning. So I was asked to talk about social networking and formal learning. Each of these can be accomplished well through social networking tools.

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Transformers

E-Learning Provocateur

Next, I suggest we go social. Posting the video clip to the enterprise social network seeds a discussion, by which anyone and everyone can share their experiences and insights, and thus learn from one another. The consumption of content on the social network, for example, may be difficult to track and report.

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Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models

Tony Karrer

I had an interesting conversation with Patrick Randolph from TalkWheel about different kinds of asynchronous conversation models that are emerging and how they might fit into broader eLearning Initiatives. While Twitter is asynchronous, it's not easily used as other kinds of tools for discussion.