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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

You might also notice eLearning being referred to as online learning, web-based learning, or distance learning. Our brains have been wired over the last 2,500 years to learn through stories. How many of us still associate the story of Hansel and Gretel with “stranger danger?” Spirit animal: Grumpy cat.

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Top Four HOT Concepts in Distance Learning

E-Learning Acupuncture

Distance Learning itself. At my institution, we are scratching our heads a little bit wondering why we have an above average number of enrollments in our distance learning courses. So called ‘anytime, anywhere’ learning. So Distance Learning itself is a really hot concept. eTextbooks.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

[link] January 10-12, 2009 Conference on e-Learning Applications : Explore, Share and Stimulate Research in e-Learning Applications, 6 th , Cairo, Egypt. link] January 20-22, 2009 EDCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2009: Orlando, Florida, USA. link] com.au./sb_clients/iog/bin/ sb_clients/iog/bin/ iog_home.cfm?vm_key=BC3AE740-

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Quality Control: Best Practices in Online Course Design and Delivery

CourseArc

But like other design-driven products, in which subjectivity plays a key role in a course’s development and execution, the quality of eLearning products can sometimes be difficult to evaluate objectively. Here are some best practices to help you integrate quality control standards into your course design and delivery.

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WW2 to COVID-19: How Remote Tools Help Reinforce Development Post-Program eLearning

Speaker: Pat D'Amico, Founder and CEO of About-Face Development

Despite initial reluctance, training and learning via Zoom and other virtual platforms soon became the norm and revealed the good and the bad associated with those modalities. Now, as the pandemic begins to wane, we are faced with a different crisis – what did we learn and what does it mean for the future?

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Interactivity

Kapp Notes

The interactivity allows the learner to interact, ponder and consider what he or she is learning. Passive reading may entertain or temporarily enlighten but seldom does it remain in long term memory unless a particular emotion or environment is associated with what was read. In The 2000/2001 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook.

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What has been and what is yet to come

Learning with e's

It's fitting then that this year, Tallinn is also the host city for the annual European Association for Distance Learning (EADL). I will also speculate on the future of distance education and how it might be shaped by, and respond to, the next wave of technology.

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