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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

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The new app is called simply Reader’s Digest and is a free app with one free sample / preview issue that offers a sample table of contents and select story previews. Informal Workplace Learning.

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Four Steps to Deeper Learning

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Too often, I see well-intentioned courses focusing on information or knowledge, e.g., awareness. Unfortunately, we’re not, and we don’t change behavior just on the basis of new information. If you see learning that’s focused on information, not on behaviors, you’re seeing learning that’s not sufficiently deep.

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Impactful decisions

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remembering arbitrary bits of information), our value is going to be in pattern-matching and meaning-making. That means using models (see above) and examples (models in context), and then appropriate practice, with all the nuances: context, challenge, spacing, variation, feedback… So, first the analysis, then the design.

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Microlearning Case Study: Spaced Learning

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The basics Learning needs to have an initial emotional hook, followed up by some clear concepts, examples, and then sufficient practice. Subsequent information gives details, and then the opportunity to practice. This was followed by information on the outcomes of an action and steps an individual could take.

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Design Fallacies Getting in the Way of Learning Transfer

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Fallacy #1 – The transfer of learning is considered complete only when learners can recall the information provided in the learning intervention after the said training. In other words, this is information they need to learn and retain in their memory. This works especially well with novice learners.

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Mobile Learning (mLearning) Applications - An Example

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The future of mobile learning is in the use of applications such as PowerOne which bring desktop style computing to the mobile device; it is also in real-time collaboration and information access. Related posts: General Considerations for Mobile Learning (mLearning) Skill-Pill: Just-in-Time Mobile Learning Google Goggles and Mobile Learning.

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A Learning Impact Process

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There are many reasons that performance can be lagging, including the wrong rewards, the wrong information, insufficient resources, as well as a lack of skill. Expert, stakeholder, and/or audience review, versus testing, are shortcuts that have value even if not as fully informative.

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