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Defining Immersive Learning: What is it and why does it work?

STRIVR

Immersive Learning has taken the L&D and HR world by storm. Even with the significant changes to how our world works, Immersive Learning remains a cornerstone of corporate learning today and a foundation for where things are headed. Advanced learning theory makes the training stick.

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Instructional Scaffolding

Ed App

Bruner’s theory proved to be quite seminal for the educational and developmental sciences, and it help to create more student-oriented teaching methods. Learners obtain new skills through the expansion of the existing ones – much like in a snowball effect. From theory to practice. The zone of proximal development.

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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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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

Irene Boland explained her choice by saying that, “Learning design and development should have its roots in science”. Now it’s in the third edition, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction is a manual for designing effective online courses. Chief Game-Based-Learning Officer at Funification. She’s right.

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Free L&D webinars for March 2018

Limestone Learning

Therefore, when beginning the LMS evaluation process, one of the first questions you should ask yourself is whether an open-source LMS (like Moodle or Totara) or a closed-source platform (like SumTotal or Cornerstone) will be better suited to meeting your needs. This live online session will explore how to: Design blended learning campaigns.

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