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Engaging online learners 3

Learning with e's

They are also asked to perform tasks such as 'Mining for Gold' - finding useful websites, online resources etc, that they can share with the group as 'gold dust resources'. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. Unported License.

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Connected pedagogy: Shared minds

Learning with e's

We learn best when we feel we belong, and we feel more comfortable when we perceive psychological safety (Maslow, 1954). The selection of common goals and purposes is a powerful motivator for those engaged in collaborative learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Think about it. Wheeler, S.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

We covered social learning here last week; this week, lets focus on ways that learning experience designers (LXD, as we’re calling them) can use enterprise 2.0 collaboration to help people work together more easily and improve performance through learning. Collaboration? Is there a better way to learn?

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All you need is love

Learning with e's

Phileo is often needed when children are required to work together, and it''s often the case that the groups who enjoy being together perform better. Collaborative learning is on the rise in modern pedagogy, because teachers have discovered that children tend to learn more when they discuss, compare and contrast their ideas.

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Teach less, learn more

Learning with e's

John Davitt, in his quirky, off-the-wall session: 'From Silo to Orchestra: The staccato progress of eLearning' encouraged us all to perform our teaching in a different way, using different steps, alternative tempos and creative melodies, so that learners were engaged in many new ways. What will we learn from this?

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems

Learning Visions

Not truly a collaborative learning platform. Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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