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Digital tribes

Learning with e's

Communication, including speech, clothing and actions all serve to signal our cultural identities and group membership (Pahl and Rowsell, 2006). Such new literary practices of communication (Lankshear and Knobel, 2006) rely heavily on shared spaces, shared symbolism and the viral nature of the social web. Unported License.

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Trends in Learning: What’s Latest!

Origin Learning

While nearly three- quarters (72 percent) of executives identified training as one of the top ways for employees to develop new skills, only 52 percent of workers employed by the companies surveyed currently receive company-provided, formal training.

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Introducing the LMS Almanac: Corporate Edition 2016

Talented Learning

In 2006, LMS vendors had very similar functional capabilities, license models, implementation timelines and marketing. If LMS buyers were troubled by the puzzle of choosing from 30 potential LMS vendors in 2006, they are flummoxed in 2016 by a challenge that is 20x more difficult. Take a Peek at the LMS Almanac ?

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

I will attempt to contextualise these changes at the level of both organisation and individual, to provide a picture of how universities and teachers might manage their business in the coming decade. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Unported License. and Purdon, M. Kamel Boulos, M.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with e's

I''m gradually working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. Unported License. This is number 28 in my series on learning theories. References Jenkins, H. Surowiecki, J.

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Goodbye UserVue.

TechSmith Camtasia

Back in 2006, TechSmith launched UserVue to help our users conduct remote usability testing. Although we're no longer offering annual licenses of UserVue, we will continue to provide monthly subscriptions and free technical support for a short period of time. Fast forward to 2010. Still need to conduct remote usability tests?

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