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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s a quick primer on video as a learning tool from Learning Solutions Magazine. My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them. Instead, tell them where to get the information they need, when they need it. tool chest.

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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

As a result, I grew up learning how to find information the traditional way—in books, magazines, and even microfilm newspapers. But I also learned how to find information on the Internet, and how to measure the credibility of a source early on. Later, we were told “you can use online sources, but not Wikipedia.”

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The evolution of personal learning environments

Origin Learning

He reads books, accesses the Britannica Encyclopedia CD on his PC, participates in group discussions at his university, reads journals, magazines and newspapers in the library, logs on to the (slowly working) internet once in a while, watches TV, listens to the radio, and so on. Much of our learning is informal and happens online.

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Jay Cross Memorial Award 2017: Marcia Conner

Clark Quinn

She subsequently was the Information Futurist at PeopleSoft. She also served as a co-founder and editor at Learnativity, an early online magazine. Marcia was a friend of Jay’s for many years (including organizing the creation of his Wikipedia page), and we’re proud to recognize her contributions.

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My Professional Learner’s Toolkit

Clark Quinn

A set of trusted web resources : That’d be Wikipedia, pretty much. And online magazines, such as eLearnMag and Learning Solutions , and ones for my personal interests. A personal information system : I use both Notability and Notes to take notes. Reflection: this overlaps with the personal information system.

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2016 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

This social magazine has replaced a number of different interfaces for me. Its easy and seamless interface makes jumping between news, blogs, journals, magazines and applications such as Flickr simple and straightforward. Evernote: I’d drown or die trying to find that useful article or piece of information without Evernote.

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Jay Cross Memorial Award - 2017

Performance Learning Productivity

She was subsequently the Information Futurist at PeopleSoft. She also served as a co-founder and editor at Learnativity, an early online magazine. Marcia was a friend of Jay’s for many years (including organizing the creation of his Wikipedia page ), and we’re proud to recognize her contributions.