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14 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 18

Upside Learning

The proportions of formal and informal learning vary with the task at hand, the context for learning, and the psyche of the learner. Generally, informal learning carries anywhere from four to ten times the weight of formal learning. Where Does Informal Learning Fit In? Read to know more.

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Best of informal learning since September 1, 2010…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Informal Learning Flow. Next month, a new aggregator on Working Smarter from Internet Time Alliance , sponsored by Xyleme , will replace Informal Learning Flow. Try a Twitter Meeting - You Learn Something New Every Day , November 6, 2010. On sustaining and reviving culture - Abject Learning , October 15, 2010.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? Is there something cultural going on? I never thought about the cultural differences in audio usage. Whats your take on using audio in eLearning? For or against?

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Fast forward to more recent history, and we’ve gone from gleaning survival skills from our social group to trying to figure out the most effective means of transmitting skills to individuals new to our organizations and integrating them into our workplace cultures.

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Theories for the digital age: Connectivism

Learning with e's

Learning in the industrialised world can now be contextualised within a largely technological landscape, where the use of digital media is assuming increasing importance. Clearly our social and cultural worlds are influenced by new technology, but are there also biological implications? 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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Vygotsky, Piaget and YouTube

Learning with e's

They would need to progress through a strictly defined set of cognitive stages before they were ready to learn at the next level. Vygotsky''s tack on learning was invariably laced with rich social contexts, and laden with cultural nuances, and he didn''t hold to the stage development theory as strictly as Piaget.

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Bridging the divide

Learning with e's

The divide between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' may be economic, but it has far reaching social, cultural and political consequences. It is patently clear that children who do not have home computer/internet access are at a disadvantage when it comes to completing homework, researching assignments and sustaining informal learning.