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How Practicing Mindfulness in the Workplace Can Ease Stress and Improve Productivity

KnowledgeCity

The word “mindfulness” may sound like something from a meditation class or Buddhist study. That may sound like something you would hear in a meditation class, and it’s no surprise that mindfulness techniques are also used to decrease stress. Here’s how it works. What is Mindfulness? Key parts of mindfulness include: .

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The Diminishing Shelf Life of Learning

CLO Magazine

I remember teaching my first Lotus 1-2-3 class on IBM portables to a group of accountants in the early ’80s. Creating a class or e-learning that has any shelf life is unrealistic. I’m coming up on my 30th anniversary of being in the learning profession. Oh, how the world has changed. Change is constant.

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Online Learning in Education

eLearning 24-7

online (albeit you had to attend two classes on the UNL campus to fulfill the requirements). At the University of Nebraska were I taught, online classes began in 1999. My offering was the first online journalism class in the University of Nebraska system – a result of a grant from the system itself. They were wrong.

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Asynch, Synch.And the Winner is?

eLearning 24-7

Courses are typically called online classes, or referred to as classes. Chunks of the online class are hidden, until they (everyone) goes to that next section. In some classes – the student has to read all the posts, but can respond to as a little as three. Complaints about the classes/courses are common.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life. DogEar – Social Bookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. Ranking, tagging, top stories Tags link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life.

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Linkedin Learning Mini Review

eLearning 24-7

Depends on your angle, this can be a good or bad, I sort of like it, although I just do not see the value of it, unless you are looking for a job and even then it is such an item, where someone goes, “Yowsa, they did take Lotus 1-2-3, we need to hire them!” The class is 55 minutes in length, etc.