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Devlearn conference day 2: curation

Challenge to Learn

Instead of looking things up with google you plugin to the knowledge of somebody who is an acknowledged specialist in his field. This blog and the easygenerator blog are ‘republished’ or aggregated through that site. Easygenerator is a sponsor of LINGOs, offering easygenerator for free to all associated ngo’s.

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Google is failing us: how to manage the information overflow?

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Steve Rosenbaum pointed out in his key note address at DevLearn that search engines like Google become less reliable and that we have to find other ways to manage the information overflow. I decided to test Google myself. I entered the search term ‘Kasper Spiro’ in Google, searching for images of myself.

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Why do searches on e-Learning terms drop dramatically?

Challenge to Learn

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. Terms connected to old school e-Learning are dropping, terms related to new forms of (e-)Learning (like MOOC’s) are rising in the Google trends. On SCORM the drop is 83%.

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Why do searches on e-Learning terms drop dramatically?

Challenge to Learn

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. Terms connected to old school e-Learning are dropping, terms related to new forms of (e-)Learning (like MOOC’s) are rising in the Google trends. On SCORM the drop is 83%.

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Online Educa Berlin 2011 recap

Challenge to Learn

When you compare it to conferences like Learning Solutions and DevLearn it really comes out bad. In Berlin I met with Christopher Benz (he is in charge of online events of the ELearning guild) and we spoke about the differences of an eLearning guild conference (like Learning Solutions and DevLearn) and the online Educa.

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#mLearncon recap: mLearning is growing up

Challenge to Learn

There already is a discussion on wearables (like Google Glass, smart watches and other sensors that we will carry in the near future). I will use it in the product development of the new web edition of easygenerator and I believe I can solve that apocalypse. A great step forward. That is my biggest personal take away. I loved it.