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Should SMEs Create eLearning Courses?

Upside Learning

Experts suffer from what’s known as the ‘curse of knowledge (aka ‘curse of expertise’) – Wikipedia Link Learning Designers, in contrast, are (or should be) skilled to unpack the models SMEs hold and present the same more appropriately to novice learners. first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog.

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Ban “Click Here” From Your Vocabulary

Experiencing eLearning

Take a look at the following list and see if you can determine which link would get you to the Wikipedia article on Universal Design for Learning: Click here. This is fortunately an easy way to improve your accessibility, requiring no technical expertise beyond creating links. Click here. more information. Why Link Text Matters.

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Lurking or Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Experiencing eLearning

Wikipedia: At one point, I contributed quite a bit (2500+ edits), but it’s been over a year since I’ve been active. Wikipedia, for example, can be pretty intense and nasty. But I’m not looking for a high level of expertise in gaming. I learn on all those sites. Most likely.

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Jay Cross Memorial Award 2017: Marcia Conner

Clark Quinn

The Jay Cross Memorial Award is given to professionals who continuously welcome challenges at the cutting edge of their expertise and are convincing and effective advocates of a humanistic approach to workplace learning and performance. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Jay Cross Memorial Award - 2017

Performance Learning Productivity

The Jay Cross Memorial Award is given to professionals who continuously welcome challenges at the cutting edge of their expertise and are convincing and effective advocates of a humanistic approach to workplace learning and performance. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Learned Vs. Learners - Revised

ID Reflections

I have recently been reading Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement. Building Expertise deals with learning and training as it needs to be. I want to highlight a few concepts from the book that impact how we think of learning and expertise. Often, years of it; 10,000 hours of it.

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Random Web 2.0 Statistics

Kapp Notes

Top US Search Providers October 2009 ) There are more than 85,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages at Wikipedia. Wikipedia has 10,992,799 registered users, including 1,696 administrators.( Wikipedia has 10,992,799 registered users, including 1,696 administrators.(