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A How to Guide on the Principles of the #elearningmanifesto: # 5 Provide realistic practice

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This is Principle 5 of the manifesto: “We will provide learners sufficient levels of realistic practice; for example, simulations, scenario-based decision making, case-based evaluations, and authentic exercises.” Here is a well done animated example of a simulation about collecting evidence at the site of an accident.

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A new methaphor for e-Learning

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At the moment I’m looking at a lot of different examples in order to learn from them. This example is created by one of easygenerators Dutch partners (Atrivision). Another example I liked a lot was the tube map. This example is made by an other Dutch partner (ISM Learning). Flipboard. Context: Floorplan.

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How subject matter experts can create more effective learning

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We provide a hassle-free authoring platform for them to share knowledge effortlessly. In Easygenerator, for example, we have a feature that will show a page to the learner based on his result (fail or pass). An increasing number of subject matter experts are sharing their knowledge in a variety of ways.

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How to support authors that have no experience?

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I will give some examples. For example: When an author does not define a learning objective; we can alert him to that and explain why it is important and help him in making one. When the author creates a question without negative feedback, we can warn him and explain why it is important and how he can provide proper feedback.

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Book review: Corporate universities. Drivers of the learning organization

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In this book Martyn and his co-writers give a great example of the Metropolitan Opera. It does make an interesting read and it provides a better understanding for his concepts. I do advise anyone who plays a part in strategic change or corporate universities to read this book, it does provide new angles and approaches.

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Seven musts for creating effective elearning

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Start your course with the story and come back to it later as an example. The rule is: “Trick your learner in making errors, provide proper feedback and he will learn.” It will be almost impossible to create an eLearning course that is completely story based. But you can use the story as an extra. A problem or conflict.

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A How to Guide on the Principles of the #elearningmanifesto: # 2 Do Not Assume that eLearning is the Answer

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In this post I want to provide some rules of when to apply a formal course, when to apply a different form of eLearning or even when to apply something other than elearning. As an example: think of all the skills and knowledge you had to learn to be competent on your smartphone or tablet in order use them effectively in your work.

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