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How to Best Train the Gen Y

Origin Learning

The generation born around the year 2000, Gen Z as we call it almost does not believe in reading books in their paperback editions. The workforce of any organization today is teeming with the millennial generation that is, Gen Y which came of age around the year 2000. Take the e-Books or Kindle for example.

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What’s the Difference Between a VLE and an LMS?

KnowledgeAnywhere

Since 2000, it has grown by a staggering 900% , with no signs of slowing. As technology has evolved, it has also revolutionized teaching and learning. A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a modern teaching method designated for online learning. Live learning - They offer support for live virtual classes.

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Techno rant but not really

Moodle Journal

The presentation started with an image of an operating theatre circa 1900+, a click of the mouse and we see a picture of an operating theatre 2000+. In the next slide we see a classro om circa 1900, teacher at the front of the class with chalk and blackboard, students in orderly rows equipped with chalk and chalkboards.

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Answering #Gamification Questions from a 7th Grade Student-Part 2

Kapp Notes

When I was in college, we learned to teach in the “traditional” manner and I have been doing that for a while and still do in some instances. However, as a professor, I have also always taught a class where I divide students into teams, give them a mock Request for Proposal and have them compete against one another.

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Writing & Grammar: Nauseated by Nauseous

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

In Strunk and White's The Elements of Style , originally copyrighted in 1935, with the fourth edition copyrighted in 2000, the writers flat out state that nauseous means "sickening to contemplate" and nauseated means "sick at the stomach." That hard line was changing, even in the year 2000. e-learning.

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Are we taking into account the culture surrounding our students?

Kapp Notes

We know from a variety of research (Delpit, 1995; Gay, 2000; Nieto, 2004: Villegas & Lucas, 2002) that successful schools place their students' cultures at the center of their missions and curriculum. Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research and practice. References: Delpit, L. New York: The New Press. Grossman, L.

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Reflections on Two Decades and Three Degrees

Allison Rossett

I get classes no one wants… statistics and ethics. Stats class is a bust. If I struggle in a class, I drop it. Only a few professors and a few classes surprise me: The politically incorrect professor emeritus who cracks jokes. A difficult professor teaches the classroom section and we learn about plate tectonics.

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