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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

Across Europe and other western industrialised nations, most universities now have their own corporate e-learning strategies, and most manage their own virtual learning environments or VLEs (McConnell, 2006). 2007) Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. and Lewis-Smith, J. and Moonen, J.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education.

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Learning in 30 Seconds-Learning ala The Matrix Style

Vignettes Learning

Make the information learned, a part of the daily routine. Acquiring this habit allows learning to really sink in. Incorporate micro-learning in the virtual learning environment. This way, you can impart knowledge the micro-learning way too. Micro content should not take longer than 15 minutes.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

Understanding E-Learning 2.0 There are some very interesting changes going on in the world of e-learning that seem to have crept up on practitioners. Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional By Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada 5. Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0

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2008 Tools and Technologies Retro

Learning with e's

I will continue to use the ad-free versions as quasi-virtual learning environments for my groups next year. I was given an Apple iPhone for Christmas 2007 by my darling wife, and it has travelled with me everywhere (of course) ever since. Just you watch me. 2- Here's my No. 2 tool for 2008.

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Breakthrough eLearning: Dealing with eLearning Objections

Breakthrough eLearning

that have nothing to with whether it takes place in a real or virtual learning environment. It got me to thinking about the various objections to eLearning that I have heard over the course of my ten years in this field. When an education or training experience is bad, there are usually a host of reasons why this is so (e.g.