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ELC 064: How to Create Meaning From A Torrent of Information

The eLearning Coach

Every day, we engage in sense-making from a torrent of information. He has worked on complex information problems across startups, space science, intranets, education, and the Fortune 500. Information is ubiquitous and complex. In this episode, we discuss ways to create understanding from raw information.

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Why DRM-Protected eBooks Are the Preferred Choice for Educational Publishing Today?

Kitaboo

Although digital publishing is a promising market, publishers, vendors, and authors are struggling with the constant threat of online piracy with the rise of peer-to-peer file exchange services like torrent sites. When it comes to protecting eBooks from theft or piracy, DRM eBooks are an educational publishers’ first choice.

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Disorienting Dilemmas, Eye-Opening Openings, and Inspirational Closings: Online Training 101

Mindflash

Transformative learning is an evolving educational concept which helps the learner to transform his perspective, leading to behavioral change. It is touted as a basic tenet of adult education. Disorienting Dilemmas Lead to Transformative Learning. The concept is attributed to Jack Mezirow, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.

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70 years on and still relevant: The Sabre-Toothed Future

Performance Learning Productivity

Selling at $1, this book was a light satire on education and educators that carried a heavy, and still very relevant, message. Benjamin initially only admitted to writing the foreword to the book, as it was allegedly the text of a series of lectures on the history of Palaeolithic education delivered by a fictitious Professor J.

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Turn Training into a Profit Center – Here’s How

eLearning 24-7

Like I said about iTunes, Apple came out of the gate charging 99 cents per MP4, whereas the competition was multiple dollars and those who weren’t paying and going via Torrents, were staying clear. 99 cents is really in many eyes, not a lot of money. Heck it costs a $1 (not including tax) for a McDonald’s soda (in the states). .

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning - Untitled Article

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Identity, memory, death and the internet - Dave’s Educational Blog , September 17, 2009. Textbook torrents a-crashin’ - Abject Learning , September 11, 2009. [berkman] Clay Shirky on the future of news - Joho the Blog , September 22, 2009. Unweaving the tangled web - Mind Hacks , September 16, 2009.

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Re-orientation

Jay Cross

Now, the torrent of information generated by the ever increasing stream of new developments has rendered this impossible. It’s a collection of links to things I revisit in Learning, Education, Business, Tech, Graphics, Writing, and personal stuff. Alas, we are all babes in the woods of the world wide web.

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