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Advantages of Informal Learning for Organizations

LearnDash

For organizations interested in promoting employee growth, a mix of formal with informal education methods may be the key to success. Informal learning refers to the spontaneous, ad-hoc learning most of us engage in every day when we feed our curiosity or explore answers to questions provoked by our environment. It’s cheap.

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What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?

ej4 eLearning

According to Wikipedia: “Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.”. It reduces training costs. Assessment can be done digitally as well.

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Top 4 Tips for Designing Information-Based Courses

Learnnovators

We design more information-based courses today than we would care to admit. Agreed, these courses can instead be called web pages, cheat sheets, information dumps, knowledge stores, etc. In case you haven’t heard this term before, here’s the definition of backward design by Wikipedia.) Which brings us to the next point….

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Nudge Theory: Tips To Enhance Corporate eLearning Outcomes

Infopro Learning

According to Wikipedia, nudge theory is a concept in political theory, behavioral economics, and sciences that promotes positive reinforcement and indirect techniques or recommendations that affect the behavior and decision-making of people. Smaller bits of information should be used for smarter learning absorption.

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QR Codes are Still Alive and Useful - Thanks Wikipedia!

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

The famous WIKIPEDIA has released a code creator specifically for Wikipedia pages. Wikipedia is a great source of information and QR codes are a cheap way to make connections between our physical world and information rich digital world. Of course I tested QRpedia with the eLearning page in wikipedia.

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A new common tragedy?

Clark Quinn

Information, as has been said , wants to be free. With the internet, it’s almost that way, and there are almost zero limits on the information (for better or worse). If we share information, we can all benefit. Thus, we should offer up information and in return get the benefit. We can also contribute.

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TOP 4 TIPS FOR DESIGNING INFORMATION-BASED COURSES

Learnnovators

We design more information-based courses today than we would care to admit. Agreed, these courses can instead be called web pages, cheat sheets, information dumps, knowledge stores, etc. In case you haven’t heard this term before, here’s the definition of backward design by Wikipedia.) Which brings us to the next point… 2.

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