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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

API- Taken from Wikipedia “an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software and applications.” If you sign up for an in-person workshop but need to watch an online video that explains the basics before you attend, that’s an example of blended learning.

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Instructional design: from “packaging” to “scaffolding”

Jane Hart

Wikipedia has a page about instructional scaffolding, too – yes, the term already exists – which includes this paragraph. The first is a great example of instructional scaffolding.). So why aren’t we seeing more examples of instructional scaffolding in the workplace?

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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

I pointed out recently that many of the older theories of pedagogy were formulated in a pre-digital age. How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories?

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Discursive or recursive? The fractal nature of education

Learning with e's

Mathematicians will understand the explanation below from Wikipedia, but the rest of us might struggle: The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers 'c' for which the sequence (c, c² + c, (c²+c)² + c, ((c²+c)²+c)² + c, (((c²+c)²+c)²+c)² + c,) does not approach infinity.

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. For example, social media is encouraging learners not only to discover existing knowledge, it is also enabling them to create, repurpose, organise and share new knowledge.

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4 types of navigation flows for micro-learning courses

QuoDeck

The main disadvantage of this form of navigation is that it is designed for an academic pedagogy and doesn’t relate well to modern adult learning principles. For example, if the organization is in an industry which is highly regulated, like banking or aviation, such a navigation style is good to have as it provides ready reference material.

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eLearning Learning - Best of May

Tony Karrer

Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009 Informal Learning Technology - eLearning Technology , May 11, 2009 Capture Examples - eLearning Technology , May 29, 2009 Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.