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The Prehistoric Learning Metric Still Roaming the Earth Today

Absorb LMS

Spared the typical hours of tracking an injured beast under the hot sun, the hunters enjoyed a rare easy day, expending few calories yet consuming many. Wondering how long he’ll have to endure his narcissistic mentor’s lectures, Parg asks: –“How long Parg listen to Gorg?” Then Parg be great hunter too.”

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Kelly Palmer, chief learning officer for Degreed, shares her career journey

CLO Magazine

I spent a huge part of my career at Sun Microsystems first in product development (and actually working on online help systems for the Java platform). After about 10 years, I got a great opportunity to move into corporate strategy at Sun running the acquisition integration function. It was the turning point in my career.

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The Prehistoric Learning Metric Still Roaming the Earth Today

Absorb LMS

Spared the typical hours of tracking an injured beast under the hot sun, the hunters enjoyed a rare easy day, expending few calories yet consuming many. Wondering how long he’ll have to endure his narcissistic mentor’s lectures, Parg asks: –“How long Parg listen to Gorg?”. Then Parg be great hunter too.”.

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3 Strategies to Engage Students in Online Learning

TechSmith Camtasia

Compared with hours-long lecture recordings, “chunking” up lecture content this way results in increased video views, plus better engagement and retention of the information. Faculty can also capture lab lectures and demonstration s. Faculty can also capture lab lectures and demonstration s. Even better?

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#TwistedTropes 30. Halley's boring comet

Learning with e's

Is it because it has a fatal attraction to our sun? Actually, all of these questions are boring, because the comet is akin to certain lessons in school and university, where the teachers/lecturers annually repeat themselves word for word, or worse, simply read out the text from their boring slides. But why does it keep coming back?

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Friday Finds — Ultimate Curation Guide, Better Training Videos, AI Content Transformation

Mike Taylor

What I’m Listening To: This playlist has been the perfect soundtrack for soaking up the sun and getting my vitamin D fix this week. Big Timer The 10 Most Frequent Mistakes in Writing a Course Script Attention all course developers, methodologists, and lecturers! As always, thanks for reading.

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Chance encounters

Learning with e's

I was on a lecture tour of New Zealand in 2011, and was thoroughly enjoying my time travelling around the beautiful North Island, speaking at events in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Whangarei, and of course, the capital city, Wellington. I was at a loose end on Sunday, so I wandered down to the centre of the town and spotted a tour advert.

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