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In Challenging Times: Make Lemonade in eLearning

Litmos

In 2009, an SRI team working for the Department of Education led by Barbara Means, reported for the first time, that eLearning was superior to face-to-face. Asynchronous experiences may be different, but some authentic "voice" makes the experience more manageable. If there’s a synchronous cohort, do group assignments.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. It’s notable, too, that the DoD guidance tells implementers to continue to use SCORM for asynchronous course tracking. Slope of Enlightenment. xAPI: It is eerie how xAPI has exactly followed the hype curve.

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

eLearning 24-7

An estimated 1 million students in K-12 took at least one online course in 2007-2008 (Piccano and Seaman, 2009). Students who take some or all the schooling online performed better than students who took the same course in a traditional learning classroom ( Department of Education, 2009). With SBL, students go in a linear method.

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Battle of the Bloggers – last words – part 5

Clive on Learning

I continue my re-cap of the responses I gave to the questions posed at last week’s Battle of the Bloggers at Online Educa 2009 : Question 5 is: What type of learning has the most impact? Instructionally sound or contextually relevant? My response: This is a difficult one to unpick because these are not mutually exclusive concepts.

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Teaching Online Courses – 60 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

Online Teachers: Instructions - Online Pedagogy/Teaching Tools How to facilitate synchronous learning for real and virtual learners using technology? Online Teachers: Instructions - Online Pedagogy/Teaching Tools How to facilitate synchronous learning for real and virtual learners using technology?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Design and Market Sector Differences

Learning Visions

The courses themselves are primarily asynchronous, with the occasional synchronous chat. That part of the design doesnt exist for the self-paced e-learning courses; there isnt that same kind of learning community. Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It.

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e-Learning Acupuncture: Technology, Colleges and Community Online Conference

E-Learning Acupuncture

All the presenters and attendees stay in their current locations yet everyone joins together in synchronous and asynchronous activities for three days (April 15-17, 2008). Ive heard some good things about this very unique conference. Its a completely virtual conference. Personally I think this is a really great idea! Are educat.