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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

It has received a lot of attention in the past from the thought leaders in the realm of learning and the role of communities in personal as well as organizational learning. After digging through the references and some old articles I had saved, these are some of the key points that emerged.

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The Social Learning Revolution in eLearning

TalentLMS

Social learning is an age-old learning and teaching strategy, backed by many cognitive scientists. While retouching social learning theories is a requirement for this article, we cannot overstate the benefits this effort can incur for training professionals. We also experience a greater control over our learning.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Flying around in VirtualU: Sense of space is important in virtual learning environments.

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The 70:20:10 Model – Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Learnnovators

At times people have manipulated the 70:20:10 numbers and produced different ratios. It is a little like saying that principle named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto has no validity because when others replicated Pareto’s experiment in counting the number of peas per pod, they couldn’t align it with Pareto’s 80:20 ratio.

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THE 70:20:10 MODEL – TODAY, TOMORROW & BEYOND

Learnnovators

At times people have manipulated the 70:20:10 numbers and produced different ratios. It is a little like saying that principle named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto has no validity because when others replicated Pareto’s experiment in counting the number of peas per pod, they couldn’t align it with Pareto’s 80:20 ratio.