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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

I argued that due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) that traditional student catchment areas would begin to disappear or become less obvious (the death of distance) and recommended that universities turn their attention to blended and distance methods to broaden and extend their reach (the distributed model).

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mLearning: Smartphone statistics and the impact they have on learning

Zephyr Learning

Mobile learning (mlearning) has been around for a long time and I remember seeing the first mlearning course on a ‘Palm’ PDA in 2002. We have changed how we access information, how we interact with content and how we want to be engaged with learning. Instant Messaging – 37%. What do we do with our smartphones? Apps – 54%.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

I argued that due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) that traditional student catchment areas would begin to disappear or become less obvious (the death of distance) and recommended that universities turn their attention to blended and distance methods to broaden and extend their reach (the distributed model).

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At The Water Cooler of Learning

Marcia Conner

It involves memory, synapses, endorphins, and encoding, and, more often than not, those accidental and serendipitous moments we call informal learning. Most real learning—the kind that sticks to the walls of the brain—is informal. Informal learning is what goes on around our formal learning process.

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The State of E-Learning in the Medical Device Industry

Webanywhere

The use of applications that service this need is helping to achieve greater expansion, thus becoming the wealth and forefront of the medical industry as it grows ever wider in its ability to guide and share must-know information on a global scale. The type of consultancy needed within their scope of planning.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). My arguments primarily revolve around the knowledge worker - those who work with information. Informal Knowledge Transfer. Keep your own bias in mind.