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Classroom Learning: Ditch the Knowledge Dump, Mix it Up

CLO Magazine

Chief Learning Officer columnist Elliott Masie, CEO of The Masie Center and chair of its Learning Consortium, said learning is best delivered through a mix of modalities. When e-learning first arrived, Masie said the industry thought it was going to replace classroom learning, but it didn’t — it changed it.

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Here Come the MOOCs

CLO Magazine

Although traditional MOOCs have yet to veer directly into the internal corporate learning and development sphere, there are lessons learning leaders can glean from the medium. For instance, rather than teach 20 people in a classroom or 100 people in a webinar, how can companies teach 10,000, 100,000 or 1 million?

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The Ropes of Microlearning – Pros and Cons

eLearningMind

Whether you’re excited to implement a few mini-lessons in your own workplace, or you’re wondering where you went wrong in a lackluster campaign, you should understand that there’s a time and a place for breaking information into smaller bites. Some may start lessons and never get around to finishing. Stick to the fundamentals.

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The Transfer of Learning from the Course to the Desk: 6 Keys to Success

SHIFT eLearning

Elliott Masie, CEO, The MASIE Center’s Learning CONSORTIUM. While you’re not wholly responsible for the lack of learning transfer, you are in unique position to help learners make the most out of their lessons. 1) Teach Students When and How to Use a Skill. 3) Teach With Realistic Examples. Aim for meaning instead.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Correcting the violent video game rhetoric" (CNet.com)

Mark Oehlert

Because as powerful as videogames or even games in general are as teaching tools.it The hard lesson is that people do learn in games but what they learn mainly comes from a personal place - a place constructed by their own experiences, background and mental states. But it wont. You know why? From the land of Huh?

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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

You started off working in public education – teaching high school for a number of years – and then decided to make the jump from corporate ed. I got a master’s degree in international policy and I went to teach in inner city Oakland. The business schools are increasingly going to practitioners to teach classes.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Tell me your latest/greatest books on learning.

Mark Oehlert

McCloud is always wonderful although you need to be able to generalize to apply his lessons to learning. I love Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman. I am getting all this reading in by, among other things, giving up training magazines and echo blogs. (I Posted by: Brent Schlenker | January 23, 2008 at 06:32 PM Hmm.