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Battling Fraud in Distance Learning

LearnDash

Specifically, elearning fraud for distance education at universities. In 2011, there were at least 100 fraud-ring investigations involving distance learning, compared to just 16 in 2005. Verification can even be taken as far as facial recognition, as some technology does exist for this purpose. What Can Be Done?

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Recent Research on Interactive Learning

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

This list of existing research and articles on interactivity in learning was put together by Janhavi Padture, Director of Research, Analysis and Strategy at Harbinger Knowledge Products.

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5 papers every learning professional should read

E-Learning Provocateur

I translate this dichotomy as the difference between “learning” and “development”, recognising that as a profession we tend to assign disproportionately more attention to the former – to our organisation’s detriment. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. I elaborate here. Siemens, G.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

Those were all read-only technologies, Web 1.0 Others in the industry have already used the term "online learning," which basically points to the same concept. The term has always been used to refer to learning using the web or any other electronic medium. emphasizes on how we learn—how we interact with content online.

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

Here is some data to consider (about this supposedly new learning approach). 1996, the first high school for online learning was established (Partnership between Hudson Public schools and Concord Consortium). An estimated 700,000 students (K-12) took at least one online course in 2005-2006 (Piccano and Seaman, 2007).

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005).

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Growth of online learning

eFront

In recent years, online learning has exponentially increased in popularity. Technological innovations have enabled people of all ages to learn from a distance and by utilizing a variety of different mediums; from video tutorials to info graphics and slideshows. Subsequently, according to a 2008 study conducted by the U.S