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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

LMS and Learning Tracking Still Struggling While LMS solutions continue to get better, more powerful, more diverse, I continue to find myself searching for just the right solution for particular needs. I was also struggling for clients who needed very simple learning tracking but with some customizations. for more on this.

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 In a remote situation, video is perhaps the most effective alternative to in-person observation. There’s so much to learn, do, keep track of. Really, not so much has changed. Unported license. Attribution: amiteshikha. Onboarding can be an overwhelming experience.

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Testing times

Learning with e's

I wrote some time ago about some of the alternative ways we can track pupil progress without testing. It doesn't look as though Sats will be going away soon though, because the government pays for state education, and the government therefore wants to track the success or failure of the schools it funds. Unported License.

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Digital assignments: How shall we grade them?

Learning with e's

Many of the modules I teach at my university deal with alternative methods of learning and teaching, and focus a great deal on new and emerging technologies. Over the next few academic years I predict that submitting assignments in alternative digital formats will become the norm. Then they won''t be ''alternative'' any more.

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Royalty Free Music for eLearning

eFront

All tracks have full music clearance ready for instant buy out. Find a track you like and use it forever at no extra cost. Danosongs run by Dan O’Connor and has his creative commons free royalty free music for production site. Stock Music Boutique library offers high quality royalty-free production music.

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Off the rails?

Learning with e's

There is no deviation from the track (unless there is a disaster and there is a derailment - trains run on the rails), and generally there is a prescribed timetable that dictates the schedule of arrivals and departures of all trains in the network. But we comply with them, because there is no alternative. Or is there? How's that Amy?

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When the dam breaks.

Learning with e's

Open access journals (and there are several alternative funding models that support these) are the best way to address these problems. Moreover, many governments apportion research money to institutions who have the best track record of publications in the said journals. It will not. It may not make any difference whatsoever.

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