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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

These tools are useful for staying up-to-date on recent news, best practices, and theories in the field of Education. RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Bookmarking. RSS readers (i.e.,

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

These tools are useful for staying up-to-date on recent news, best practices, and theories in the field of Education. RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Bookmarking. RSS readers (i.e.,

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Connectivism and the modern learner

E-Learning Provocateur

Recently, I read a blog article about connectivism by Debora Gallo. So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. Theoretical foundations. Learning in the digital age.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

Why, in the midst of ever-advancing learning theory and progressive instructional design, does such rampant instructivism persist? In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Social bookmarks.

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eLearning - Social Media - Mobile Learning

Tony Karrer

Choose the Right Pilot Group - Kapp Notes , May 22, 2009 Presentation: Social Bookmarking with Delicious - Don't Waste Your Time , May 15, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design, Part 1 - The E-Learning Curve , May 19, 2009 Meeting icebreaker-How to get a group to acknowledge differences in perceptions.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0

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Is this instructional design?

The eLearning Coach

Instructional design is the process of identifying the skills, knowledge, information and attitude gaps of a targeted audience and creating or selecting learning experiences that close this gap, based on instructional theory and best practices from the field. Apply current research and theory to the practice of instructional design.