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2015 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

My list of top tools for learning in 2015 : Google Search : ‘Professor Google’ is he is known in my house. However, Google has provided a public searchable store of enormous magnitude – larger than anything seen before in humankind history – and is without doubt the most used learning tool by many, if not all, of us.

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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

This accessibility also opens the doors to a global community, providing learners with a diverse range of perspectives and resources. Recorded lectures, additional reading, and multimedia tools provide learners with a wealth of information and opportunities to delve deeper into subjects.

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How humor helps + Powtoon review

Making Change

I poked around Google Scholar and found studies that seem to agree that (relevant!) Although you can upload audio and visuals, all the content of my cartoon is provided by Powtoon. When a “course” must be created regardless of its usefulness, a cartoon would at least be more fun than an information dump.

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Vote for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013

eFront

A vote for Google will be a vote for Google Search, so if you want to vote for other Google tools, you will need to name them individually, e.g. Google Docs/Drive, Google Scholar, Google Maps, etc. “Blogger” or “WordPress”, rather than “blogs” or “blogging”). To see 2012 winners please click here.

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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

Google Scholar features most of the chapter for free. Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. This access can provide students with context and a better understanding of how the information they are learning applies to the world as a whole.

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2016 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Google Scholar: Scholar opens a rich world of academic work at the click of a button. Not in the league with the billions of Zuckerberg, Bezos, Koum and their ilk, but Wikipedia provides an equally if not more useful service than many of the tools those have built.

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Instructional Design Tools to Adopt in 2022

Maestro

When instructional design requires documentation, we rely heavily on CMOS for citation format (with the Purdue OWL at our side), but Google Scholar is another reliable tool for well-established sources, such as journals and books. Citation helps. Diagnostic tools. Flesch-Kincaid. Making the tools work for you.