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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008. June 1, 2008 was when Work Literacy Launched.

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Training Method Trends

Clark Quinn

He recently provided me some information about what learning delivery methods were being used and particularly if they were trending up or down. Some things that jump out at me: Contrary to a lot of what is being said out there ( The Death of the Classroom ), classroom still dominates as a delivery method and is actually going up.

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Abstracts of Three Meta-Analysis Studies of Serious Games

Kapp Notes

Like any good instructional method, they have to be used intelligently and in conjunction with other instructional elements to be effective for learning. terms of learning and more motivating than conventional instruction methods (learning: k = 77, N. Games should be supplemented with other instruction methods. Wouters, P.,

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

, 2009 Computer Graphics and Imaging , 10 th international conference of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), was held February 13-15, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria. 2009 First Canadian Blackboard Users’ Group Online Conference was held February 29, 2008. link] conferences/home-600.html

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Daily Bookmarks 04/08/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Research comparing traditional and hybrid methods of teaching a college course. University of Houston Study: Hybrid Courses More Effective for Students Annotated. tags: hybrid , e-learning , highered , research. Students in the hybrid course with access to materials online scored 10% higher in the course.

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Daily Bookmarks 07/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

For neuroscience to mean something to teachers, it must provide information beyond what is available without neuroscientific methods. Very little of the research at this point is directly applicable to the classroom; it just doesn’t tell us enough about how people learn in real environments.

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ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 - Conference Planning

Tony Karrer

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 is coming soon in San Antonio. There must be an informal method. Now that it's less than a month away, I thought I'd sit down and try to do some conference planning. To help me prepare, I went back to a few previous posts on related topics. Maybe it's the level of the discussion (more specific question / topic).