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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. link] January 2011 January 2-5, 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 12 th , Bangalore, India. link] January 4-7, 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Education , 9 th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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Singapore Learning Symposium Resources #SLS2013

Kapp Notes

2011) A meta-analytic examination of the instructional effectiveness of computer-based simulation games. Journal of Educational Psychology. ” After a month of game playing, the researchers found that subjects who played action games boosted their ability to track multiple objects in a short amount of time. Sitzmann, T.

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Tech Company Founder: Train Your Software to Work With Employees

CLO Magazine

That was the message from technology entrepreneur and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen in his 2011 essay, “Why Software Is Eating the World,” published in The Wall Street Journal. The next day you can track and see, OK, I got the error rate reduced from 45 percent to 30 percent. It could take a few months.

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Keynote Resources from #LUC2017

Kapp Notes

It has also been found that when a person reads about certain activities in a story, the areas of the brain associated with those activities are activated.The research found that different brain regions track different aspects of a story. Journal of Educational Psychology, 88, 715-730. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied.

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Online Learning in Education

eLearning 24-7

My offering was the first online journalism class in the University of Nebraska system – a result of a grant from the system itself. million students took at least 1 online class during the fall of 2010 (Sloan Consortium, 2011) – The survey defined an online class as being at least 80% online. Sloan Consortium, 2011).

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Building Informal Learning Habits

CLO Magazine

In his 2011 “Everyday Experience Is Not Enough” blog post, Tom Gram of Performance X Design said, “Experts continually challenge their current performance and seek feedback from their environment to stay in a more or less permanent learning state, mastering everyday skills but continuously raising their personal bar.

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ESPN’s Top Play: Learning

CLO Magazine

” Coming from a family of teachers, Cornileus took a job at an inner-city school in Miami teaching junior high students English and some journalism. Launched in 2011, the initiative has executives and division leaders in different business units serve as the faculty and teach courses about different areas of the business.