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Impressions of the Masie Learning 2011 Conference

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Last week I was fortunate to attend the Learning 2011 conference, organized every year by Elliott Masie. Masie himself had some interesting ideas about creating apps that dashboard content that can be individualized to a user’s learning needs. Bill Clinton at Learning 2011 — at least, I think it was Bill Clinton.

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Walking to Work or Carrying Your Lunch? Putting Content Into Context. Part I.

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We no longer need to memorize and just “know” pieces of information. Ruth Clark cites in her book on instructional design that phone numbers were designed to be 7 digits long in the United States because 7 digits is the point at which it becomes extremely more difficult to memorize pieces of information.