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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.

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Top 3 Questions to Ask Before Choosing eLearning for Your Association

Association eLearning

In fact, according to a Department of Labor study focused on adult learners, “enrollment in courses delivered entirely online increased by nearly 250 percent in the three years from 2002 to 2005.” As with other types of instruction, developing an eLearning course comes with a price tag, so you’ll want to make sure your investment pays off.

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Weekly Bookmarks (1-2-2011)

Experiencing eLearning

3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds. Better than your average tag cloud–interactive, colorful, shaped like clouds, etc. tags: visualization tagging tools. tags: e-learning synchronous instructionaldesign blended. Using Moodle: Importing dates in a csv file into date fields – how?

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Weekly Bookmarks (3/14/2010)

Experiencing eLearning

tags : moodle , e-learning , lms. tags : moodle , e-learning , corporate , lms. Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions: Instructional Design as a practice in corporate vs. academia. Notes on a session with Karl Kapp comparing instructional design in corporate & higher ed environments. tags : education , teaching , k-12.

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Daily Bookmarks 04/26/2008

Experiencing eLearning

tags: education , writing , multimedia , web2.0 , k-12. tags: research , writing , education , technology. In 2004, a study showed (like this one) that with a little instruction kids easily understood the difference between texting and writing. 2008space -. Techdirt: Txt Spk In Schools Not A Big Deal - Annotated.

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Research to Practice: Games and Simulations

Kapp Notes

Baylor and Kim (2005) report that in multiple studies with avatars of different gender and race, evidence indicates that students learned significantly more and had significantly greater motivation when working with one motivator and a different expert avatar as compared to working with the just the one mentor avatar. Reference: Baylor, A.

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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

Or in 2005, before Facebook became open to the public? Train your learners to look for a “sponsored” or “paid content” tag when looking for sources. The more an online article is based on opinion or original research, the more important it is to have an author. When was the source written, and is it still relevant?