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USDLA – Advocating the Growth of Distance Learning

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Some of the sessions I am looking forward to include: Future of Work, Distance Education and Society – Technological Transformations , Social Networking for Professional Development , and Raise Online Retention Using Wikis and Blogs as Interactive Tools.

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Digital Badges for Educational Achievement

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From Mozilla’s Open Badges wiki page. Mozilla’s Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for anyone to issue, earn and display badges across the web through a shared technical infrastructure. The Mozilla Foundation launched its Open Badges project in September 2011.

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Recap: ASAE 10 and PD Council Meeting

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In addition, the ASAE has now also incorporated wiki technology and established an “ Associapedia ” (an encyclopedia for associations). I, personally, was unaware of these benefits of being a member and look forward to perusing and reviewing the tools and models that are available, as well as the topics archive.

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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part I)

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Ways for online instructors and designers to build community: Use a Wiki or Google application and assign groups to work on a project together. This can be done through providing explicit incentives, encouraging interaction as pro-social behavior, and modeling the desired behavior.”.

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eLearning Predictions 2015

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Requiring activities like posting journal entries on discussion forums, blogging, contributing to wikis, or submitting collaborative assignments can be used to create incentives to get people talking to, and learning from, each other. This quasi-MOOC design fashions smaller communities of social learning within a course of any size.