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What has been and what is yet to come

Learning with e's

It was the birthplace of Skype , and Estonians believe that using the Internet is a human right. It's fitting then that this year, Tallinn is also the host city for the annual European Association for Distance Learning (EADL). Even in the bitter cold, Tallinn is quite simply a stunningly beautiful place to explore.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a December 2011 issue of Business Insider, the mobile apps analytics firm Distimo said many popular apps were games such as Angry Birds, social networking such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter, and other content such as Google Maps and iBooks. These apps focus on specific content such as playing a game or buying a book.

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The virtual classroom: the ups and the downs of collaborative learning

Saffron Interactive

The virtual classroom isn’t a new thing – distance learning organisations such as the Open University have been putting bums on virtual seats for decades. Following in their wake, the virtual classroom is increasingly discussed and used as a tool for workplace learning. The virtual classroom: it might not be very good.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations.

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Flip your classroom: The benefits & challenges of the flipped classroom approach in enterprise learning

eFront

Growing pressure on corporate training budgets and the high demand on company trainers, mentors and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), has put renewed focus on alternative approaches used by businesses to train their staff. Turning corporate learning on its ears. Flipped classroom learning isn’t all that new. Click To Tweet.

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Top Tech-Based Ways to Train a Distributed Workforce

The Learning Dispatch

Based on the number of employees in each location, the company’s two trainers estimate it will take one week at each location to train all the employees without disrupting the company’s day-to-day business. A good example of a web-based, peer-to-peer video conference product would be Skype (although there are other tools out there).

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Top Tech-Based Ways to Train a Distributed Workforce

The Learning Dispatch

Based on the number of employees in each location, the company’s two trainers estimate it will take one week at each location to train all the employees without disrupting the company’s day-to-day business. A good example of a web-based, peer-to-peer video conference product would be Skype (although there are other tools out there).