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The changing Web

Learning with e's

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. What is the extent of the capability of social software to encourage a culture of sharing and collaboration? and Purdon, M.

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Connectivism and the modern learner

E-Learning Provocateur

One of the ways we can apply connectivism in the corporate sector is by enriching our employees’ PLEs with relevant, high-quality sources of new information. Consider the following: Create a social bookmarking account to share useful websites. Recommend news feeds, podcasts, blogs and discussion forums.

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eLearning Cyclops: A Priest, A Rabbi and an Instructional Designer.

eLearning Cyclops

Now with all that out of the way, if the stakeholder has the "I want it now" attitude here are some tips to delivering a course sooner than later (never with out risk to the quality of the training): Shorten the process - Here is an outline of the e-Learning Process from Inception to Evaluation , which I used for a team presentation back in 2005.

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Text To Speech Synthesizers

The eLearning Coach

Loquendo is a multilingual text to speech engine with high-quality voices that even provide emotional emphasis. Nuance produces multilingual high-quality voices that can be purchased through NextUp above. Podcasts For Learning. Share this on del.icio.us. Loquendo and Pronuncia. How To Choose Voice Over Talent. Tweet This!

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Lynda.com Online Training Library Review

The eLearning Coach

The courses incorporate high-quality instructional strategies. On the other hand, there are numerous tutorials on nearly all the peripheral products that eLearning designers and developers might want to learn, like Dreamweaver, HTML/CSS, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Final Cut, Podcasting apps, Animation sofware, Information Architecture, etc.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED)

Mark Oehlert

Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED) ( WIRED link ) excerpt: "In the wake of the intelligence bungles that propelled the United States into the Iraq war, its no secret that the nations spies have been working to improve the quality of their analysis. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Category: Podcasts. Although podcasts are a one-way form of communication, they enable the creation of user-generated content. Podcasts are fairly easy for anyone to make and with the free downloadable software, Audacity , it becomes an inexpensive option. Talk shows can be recorded, making them available as podcasts later.