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Can Elearning Improve Productivity?

Origin Learning

Let’s give you an example: Nike used iPods attached to lanyards on the company’s sales floor so that a Nike retail sales associate could access any information about any of the product categories like footwear, apparel or sports equipment. Because skilled and up-to-date employees will take better and quicker decisions.

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Google Wave - Learning Environments - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

How a piece of 166 year old graffiti was (partly) responsible for e-learning - The E-Learning Curve , October 16, 2009. 3 Steps to a Driving Question for Project Based Learning - Blender - Training Solutions , October 16, 2009. Personal Learning Environments - Concept not Tool - Learning Technology Learning , October 16, 2009.

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New spaces, new pedagogies

Learning with e's

In tandem with this, the proliferation of personal devices such as iPods and smart mobile phones is enabling students to move beyond the boundaries of the classroom into ‘any time, any place’ learning. I will discuss the concept of the personal learning environment and its potential to enrich student experiences.

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The iPod and What We Can Adapt in e-Learning

Vignettes Learning

The iPod and what we can adapt in e-Learning 2. Using the best media mix for your e-learning project 1. The iPod and e-Learning: What can we adapt? Apple's CEO Steve Jobs preaches that the iPod is revolutionalizing the way people listen to music and audio books (Newsweek, July 26, 2004).

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An Exuberant discovery for Lonely and Stressed-out eLearners

Vignettes Learning

The idea of having an “atmosphere of exuberant discovery” reminded me about my blog posts on “instant learning.” Willis suggests, among other ideas, that making educational experience relevant helps create comfortable learning environments which are free of stress and anxiety.

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Child friendly technologies

Learning with e's

Such devices, including Nintendo game consoles (Wii and DS), mobile phones and iPod Touches can be identified as ‘child-friendly’ technologies, because they are fun and culturally relevant to children, yet they are perceived as either troublesome, or having little relevance in a formal education setting. and Looi, C. technology.

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Going geographical

Learning with e's

In tandem with this, the proliferation of personal devices such as iPods and smart mobile phones is enabling students to move beyond the boundaries of the classroom into ‘any time, any place’ learning. I will discuss the concept of the personal learning environment and its potential to enrich student experiences.