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ILT Trainers– Are you leaving something on the table?

Harbinger Interactive Learning

ILT will work best if it is part of a blended learning program that supplements ILT with eLearning, making it a more cost-effective, and hence, justified proposition. Trainers could simply complement eLearning with synchronous online learning sessions or virtual ILT. The blended learning approach could follow the below format.

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

eLearning 24-7

An estimated 700,000 students (K-12) took at least one online course in 2005-2006 (Piccano and Seaman, 2007). 28 States (Fall 2007) had online high school programs (Tucker, 2007). Learning Systems in the academic setting as a whole, follow synchronous based learning, which isn’t the most effective way to learn.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): GDC Update 2: Starting the day with Raph

Mark Oehlert

Really, one of the most un-helpful, non-useful printed programs that Iver ever seen. They didnt even bother to synchronize the sessions between the summits so if you go to a session in Virtual worlds by the time that one is done, youve missed half of the serious games session that you wanted to see.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Everyone who has graduated from college since 2005 has a FaceBook account. Another was a story from 2005, when 38% of SL users were women. One woman told me that she used to blog in LiveJournal, but there was just way too much personal information that was getting shared with the universe, so she deleted her account.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Presence - Some ways to use presence tools to enhance education: Allow learners to reveal (or conceal) their presence both synchronously and asynchronously. 2, 2005, pp. 17th Biennial Conference of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, 2005. 34 (1) 5-32, 2005-2006. Provide a way to filter information.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

Why do synchronous web tools suck? The year was 2005 and “From Nand to Tetris” became the first of what are now known as MOOCs , Massive Open Online Courses. Or, better yet, maybe we should offer a MOOC Masters – a two year program exploring the relevant and critical issues in educational technology. How does the program work?

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What is Online Learning? Brief History, Benefits & Limitations

learnWorlds

2005 YouTube was founded, providing a platform for educational video content. Programs such as PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) introduced interactive learning experiences through computer terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers. Global reach, connecting learners and educators worldwide.