The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'by Jennie Ruby    Should I use periods in the abbreviation U.S.? What about USA? What about Mr. and Ms.? What about m, s, ft, in? Wait, what were those? They were meter(s), second(s), feet, and inches.   The issue of periods with abbreviations is largely a style matter--a matter of convention. Knowing what the conventions are will make you a faster writer and editor.

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OpenSesame

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'Here at OpenSesame, we strive to better understand our customers. As a company with many large, international clients, we are naturally curious as to how other multinational corporations run their internal training. So when we came across Bill Goodwin’s article about Toyota Motor Europe’s elearning upgrades, we wanted to know more. We talked with Joost Segers, Technical Training Manager at Toyota Motor Europe, to get some insight.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'This is a continuation of my short series on the future of higher education, and builds on yesterday''s blog post on why Social Web tools are useful to support student learning. We start with the question.how will technology help to shape the future of Higher Education? It is increasingly apparent that learning technology and digital communication will play a key role in the shaping of future higher education.

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LearningGuild

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'The learning and development field is changing dramatically. There are new expectations about how we do. our work and the contributions we make. Informal learning, social learning, narrating our work, and. learning in the flow of work don’t necessarily need L&D support to flourish. Here are some guides for. updating how we scaffold learning by using learning environments.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

It is exciting to be part of the learning revolution happening all around us, with new learning paradigms and technologies emerging almost on a daily basis. Thanks to the inherent quality of learning designers, we find it easy to adapt to most of these changes. However, some of the shifts may require us to move beyond the traditional definitions of ‘learning’.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'Without question, you can improve your organization’s training outcomes while at the same time lowering the overall training cost by leveraging mobile learning as a core strategy for employee development. Consider for a moment that in the United States alone there is roughly $125 billion spent each year on employee learning and training programs.

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eFront

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of students use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias for research. Google dominates the battle for the search engine with 66.7 % of all searches that occur being via Google – and of students surveyed, 94% used Google or another search engine as an online reserach tool.

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eFront

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of students use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias for research. Google dominates the battle for the search engine with 66.7 % of all searches that occur being via Google – and of students surveyed, 94% used Google or another search engine as an online reserach tool.

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