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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Medical students and residents regularly learn new skills by first observing a procedure, then practicing the procedure under supervision, and finally teaching, or modeling, the procedure for another. Shoving the med student into a room with a patient and basket of supplies and leaving them to learn by trial and error sounds much worse to me.

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Alternatives to Second Life (continued, again)

Kapp Notes

Here is a companion post to two previous posts on the topic: Alternatives to Second Life Alternatives to Second Life Continued If you know of more, please feel free to add in the comments section. Tags: virtual immersive environment. web.alive Short "flyby" of Nortel's web.alive. This is Nortel's entry into the 3D space.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

While games like these provide a fun alternative to boring quizzes, they do not provide context. People love to play games – if they can learn how to do their job by doing just that more power to them. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Smarter Uses for Social Media

Association eLearning

Alternatively you can tweet a link to your conference registration page or even post a link in the alerts section of your association’s LMS. Social Learning. I’m not talking about Banduras Social Learning Theory. Social learning is not, I repeat, NOT the same as social media…two different things.

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Network Theory

E-Learning Provocateur

Alternatively, Deborah Mailman was in Lucky Miles with Don Hany, who was in The TV Set with Kathryn Joosten, who was in Rails & Ties with Kevin Bacon. I’m sure there are countless more potential applications of network theory to e-learning. Take Cate Blanchett for example. Cate therefore has a “Bacon number&# of 2.

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Donald. Duck!

Learning with e's

What really rankled though with many of those present (and some of those watching via Elluminate) was his critique that academics do not question learning theories, not are they suffiently critical of them. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Picture above: Donald Clark appeals to the Gods of Pedagogy).

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Tony Bates on epistemology, course design and e-learning

Janet Clarey

. “ Instructors should certainly know how to use the Internet and computers, but much more important is that have a good understanding of epistemologies, learning theory and instructional design; alternatively they need to be prepared to work collaboratively and respectfully with those that do have this knowledge.&#.

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