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The Advantages and Disadvantages of MOOCs for Learning

Infopro Learning

Besides the conventional modes of teaching such as lectures, videos and reading material; MOOCs also provide a platform for interactive forums. MOOCs really took off in 2012, when Professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig of Stanford University offered the online course called “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”.

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How Flipped Classrooms Work

LearnDash

Instead of focusing on lectures, class time in a flipped classroom is dedicated to some form of activity designed to get the students applying the concepts they are learning. To prepare, just set-up your WordPress learning management system, add your content, track progress, and administer the exercise in class.

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MOOCs for Corporate E-learning

Origin Learning

Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are relatively new yet already a rage, so much so that the New York Times named 2012 as the ‘Year of the MOOC’. The assignments, lectures and readings given to each learner are the same, but the learner has to complete them at his/her own pace within the given amount of time.

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Pick of the Month: November 2012

Jane Hart

1 - Visualize real learning – Mark Britz, 5 November 2012. ” 3 - What does L&D need to do to survive in the 21st century – Helen Blundon, 16 November 2012. ” 4 - Train the what? – Andrew Jacobs, 16 November 2012. ” 6 - Easy as ABC - Andrew Jacobs, 25 November 2012.

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AlliedBarton’s Bill Whitmore: A Higher Calling for Security

CLO Magazine

“It offered a well-conceived program for character development,” he wrote in a 2012 New York Times essay. In 2012, he published a book titled “Potential: Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success.” He has a keen sense of what is going to work.”

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Learning 2012: what worked, what didn’t, even better if…?

Good To Great

Learning 2012, held in late October in Florida, was my first experience of a non-UK conference (in fact my first trip to the USA!), Unfortunately, for me Learning 2012 didn’t really deliver on this promising start. The Learning 2012 app was also not as useful as I’d anticipated. and it was quite an experience.

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Learning 2012: what worked, what didn’t, even better if…?

Good To Great

Learning 2012, held in late October in Florida, was my first experience of a non-UK conference (in fact my first trip to the USA!), Unfortunately, for me Learning 2012 didn’t really deliver on this promising start. The Learning 2012 app was also not as useful as I’d anticipated. and it was quite an experience.