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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The pendulum had swung far in the opposite direction when we had flower children, itinerant hippies, anti-war protests, and, more recently, the Open Source movement and the proliferation of blogs. “Reputation has to factor into it,&# he added. I recognize the main current crashes into a lot of rocks.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Thoughts on the Use of the Word Ethnography

Mark Oehlert

I think there is a real danger here to the reputation of ethnography if it becomes attached to activities more rightly described as market research, focus groups and so on. So in a sense I remain torn. The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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What is Online Learning? Brief History, Benefits & Limitations

learnWorlds

1999 The term “e-learning” was used for the time in a professional context by Elliott Masie at the TechLearn conference at Disney World. 2006 Introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) by Canadian and American universities. 1970s Introduction of PLATO system for computer-assisted instruction.