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How to Create an eLearning Organization Business Model

eFront

With most economies quickly moving towards knowledge-resourced survival strategies, eLearning is the most sought-after knowledge management pedagogy. If you are one of those innovators, who favor lifelong learning and want to promote a business based on this value, then an eLearning Organization might be the answer for you.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched. The former is the subject of such disdain.

OER 279
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A game? Who says?

Clark Quinn

I just reviewed a paper submitted to a journal (one way to stay in touch with the latest developments), and all along they were doing research on the cognitive and motivational relationships in the game. They claimed it was a game, and proceeded on that assumption. And then the truth came out. and then learning effectiveness.

Games 170
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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched. The former is the subject of such disdain.

OER 224
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Adult learning shminciples

E-Learning Provocateur

Since the 1960s, he articulated a distinction between pedagogy (the teaching of children) and andragogy (the teaching of adults). In many ways, Knowles’ description of pedagogy approximates instructivism, while his description of andragogy approximates constructivism. In a nutshell, andragogy boils down to 5 key assumptions: 1.

Pedagogy 182
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Sharp practice

Learning with e's

During my keynote for the Zukunft Personal event in Cologne, I publicly announced that I would no longer publish my work in closed journals. In truth, the last time one of my papers was published in a pay-to-subscribe journal was quite some time ago. How much does it cost a publishing house to create and maintain an online journal?

Journal 106
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Inspire to learn

Learning with e's

I have gone on record as saying that although I don't need to work any more , I continue to work at Plymouth University, mainly because it is a great place to learn and to continue developing my research interests around digital pedagogy. I subsequently pledged that I would never again write, review or edit for a closed academic journal.

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