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Learning Theories For Instructional Designers: Which Works Best For You?

eLearning Industry

This article will discuss three theories that play a significant role in how lessons are designed. It will include who is responsible for incorporating the insights offered by the theories and when each theory should be used. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Active Learning Theory

Ed App

Active learning theory is one of the most popular buzzwords in the learning and development (L&D) community today. Find out in this article below. What is active learning? Active learning involves actively engaging with your learners. Active Learning Theory vs Interactive Reinforcement.

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The Case For Social Learning: Lessons From Successful Online Businesses

eLearning Industry

In this article, we’ll talk about what social learning theory can teach us about engaging our audience online and lessons from online businesses successfully leveraging social with their online offerings. Learners today expect courses to include social and interactive components.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). In an effort to bridge the time and distance gap, he started making 10-minute videos of math lessons and posting them on YouTube.

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How to Use Drip-Feed Training & Learning to Sell More Courses

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Drip-feeding is a technique that allows you to gain better control of the e-learning materials you distribute to your online students. This article goes into much detail explaining what this revolutionary content strategy has to offer… So, let’s find out! What is Drip-Feeding?

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Without throwing him completely under the bus, I’ll describe him as being late to the social media party but definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to openness to using informal learning elements like social media in his undergraduate courses. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. Properly d.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

The New York Times recently featured a fascinating article by Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin that details the shift in thinking within the military that may soon take it to the forefront of virtual training. What’s more, they don’t just mean by saving money or time (although their games are doing that, too). They mean by saving lives.