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My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2021

Experiencing eLearning

Audacity is free, open source, and does everything I need for quick audio revisions. If I’m stuck on something and need help figuring out how to solve a problem or negotiate with a client, that’s the group I turn to. PowerPoint. For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox.

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Ethics in the Age of AI

Learningtogo

And yet, being the remarkable creatures that we are, we have the audacity to develop machines that are intended to think the way we do. In Rebooting AI , cognitive scientist Gary Marcus summarizes the problem: “There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.”

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Udemy for you and me

E-Learning Provocateur

In so doing, I created Audacity Crash Course and The Wide World of MOOCs. When I couldn’t figure out how to delete a lecture, for example, I found the solution via someone else who had raised a similar problem. Udemy has actually been around since 2010, but I only recently decided to dabble in it. The help resources are helpful.

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Are Podcasts The Most Underrated Format for L&D?

Thinkdom

However, podcasts can be a viable solution to these problems. Recording and editing software - , Audacity is a free and open-source recording and editing software. Although training events have advantages, organizing and hosting them demands a lot of time and effort. They condense the material into easily digestible forms.

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Solve problems with screencasting

E-Learning Acupuncture

In this particular course, the emphasis is on mathematical problem solving. When they deliver the course in class, they spent the first 15-20 minutes of each lecture thoroughly going over solutions from previously assigned homework problems.

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What You Need to Know to Get the Best Audio

TechSmith Camtasia

Once we understand what makes a voice recording echo-y or scratchy, we can start fixing the problem. To fix this problem, we have two options: absorb the reflected waves or diffuse them. The Free Way – Audacity. Audacity is great for cleaning up audio for a podcast or music. The Science Behind Sound. Sound moves in waves.

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Lectora Development Best Practices Part 1 – Optimizing Preferences

Integrated Learnings

This series of posts is intended to show how to use Lectora in ways that avoid problems, reduce development time, and make using Lectora easier overall. This pastes copied text without any additional formatting carried over from a program like Microsoft Word, which can cause problems in Lectora. So, I decided to write one.

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