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Daily Bookmarks 11/20/2008

Experiencing eLearning

NSSE 2008 Results. The full report has limited information about online learning, but does include results showing that students in online courses report more deep learning, intellectual challenge, and reflection than those in face-to-face courses. tags : education , e-learning , research. Designing for Social Justice.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

www.asmiweb.com/HigherEd/ January 28-29, 2009 Distance Learning as an e-Infrastructures Application : Innovation and Future Trends, New Delhi, India. 2009 First Canadian Blackboard Users’ Group Online Conference was held February 29, 2008. link] conferences2009/ACHI09.html link] conferences2009/eTELEMED09. link] content.cfm?selection=doc.1066

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Be a Persuasive Storyteller in Social Media - Tip #128

Vignettes Learning

Social Media and the Leader Results of a survey showed that 75% of employees perceived that social media presence improves the ability to lead. Tu and McIsaac defined social presence as “the degree of feeling, perception, and reaction to being connected by CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) to another person through text.”

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Making Connections: Trends in Social Learning

Obsidian Learning

Building on the concept of communities of practice , Etienne Wenger (2009) has proposed a social theory of learning. The focus of this theory is “learning as social participation,” in which learners actively participate in the practices of social communities and construct personal identities in relation to these communities.

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Conversations

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

At the moment I’m celebrating some, online, 10 th anniversaries – in October 2008 I started blogging , I joined LinkedIn in November 2008 and I joined Twitter in January 2009. That is what i am now doing … reassessing my use of online social tools, Twitter, LinkedIn, this blog, etc. Click To Tweet.

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Online Classes vs Traditional Classes – Find the Best for You

learnWorlds

In the case of distance learning, it may be most appropriate at colleges and universities. Research data consistently indicate that students strongly prefer distance education. They don’t believe that they sacrifice a quality education for the convenience of utilizing distance learning. Example of LearnWorlds LMS.

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My 1-liners from ElNet 2011

E-Learning Provocateur

Ruth McElhone assigns points to her students for their contributions to an internal social media platform, and they require 1000 points to pass the course. Aside: His claim reminds me of another blog post, Noise pollution , in which I argue real environmental management is in the hands of corporations and individuals, not governments.