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Is Second Life 100% experimental?

E-Learning Acupuncture

If you were running a business and your clientele rose from 3 million to 11 million in just one year, then people would be buzzing about you too. has had her first experience with SL and in discussions she brought to the forefront some of the most common concerns that distance educators might share about SL: 1.

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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

eFront

Adobe® ConnectNow is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work with others all online. People keep asking me to do this and I've just been too busy to do a good job of it like you have here! I have used www.dimdim.com before and Elluminate (but this is not open source.)

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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary

Tony Karrer

Final week was a summary discussion The participants in the class were corporate learning professionals from a variety of medium to large organizations. All professionals (including learning professionals) are extremely busy. I think that we achieved a different kind of understanding around Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Groups, etc.

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Launching a Web Collaboration Platform? Here’s How to Get Past the Naysayers

Mindflash

But they’re the exception, still, not the rule, in the wider business universe, where breakthrough apps and tools are still uncharted — and often confusing — territory for decision makers. “Collaboration among students on these networks,&# Gautsch says, “was happening with or without us.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

The Return on Peer Review - elearnspace , June 14, 2010 Martin Weller – a long time advocate for openness in education, demonstrating through practice rather than hype – discusses the return on peer review : Peer-review is one of the great unseen tasks performed by academics. Conan Heiselt. cannot fathom how this system came into place.

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

Xyleme

Even so, we received a number of comments similar to the following: I guess I wouldn’t have a panel discussion. I think a series of presentation/discussions would be more effective. Finally I want to point out that having a panel discussion does not mean that the discussion has to jump around.

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O Collaboration - Where Art Thou?

The Learning Circuits

For example during university my most effective classes were the ones that we prepared for ahead of time by reading the materials and then came to class ready to discuss. Discussion group software has the ability to notify me by email of new postings, why can't the event archive do this? sit and listen). .