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What students need

Learning with e's

Although grades matter, more important still is the feedback students receive on their work and performance, and the interventions that teachers can make to support those they see struggling. Without effective tools, teachers' efforts will be limited, and often these limitations can arise from a lack of confidence in new technology.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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Is it a Classroom or a Prison? Some Common Sense on Measuring Training Effectiveness

Mindflash

Yes, there will always be the student who LOVES classes (and hint, hint — the student who LOVES all classes is typically a lower-performing employee). 3) Undertrained vs. under-performing. Oh, this makes me sound like the big, bad, evil teacher, but it makes me nervous when I start getting too many under-performers requesting help.

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Standard deviation

Learning with e's

First there is the social impact: Communication technology may create a psychological distance between people; it can have detrimental effects on our concentration. Secondly, distraction due to overuse of personal devices may also create serious workplace issues and challenges. How can organisations address these issues and problems?

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Makeshift reality

Learning with e's

Often vaunted as the 'next big thing' in training and education, critics suggest that VR has proven to be expensive, difficult to deploy and may present health issues. Makeshift reality by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. For example a study of 829 companies over 31 years showed diversity training had "no positive effects in the average workplace."

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Passion for education

Learning with e's

We all need inspiration, and many would argue that we perform better as educators when we have passion. Effective pedagogy not only has impact, it's contagious. Many teachers think this but few voice it as an issue. I also touched on the theme of passion - the love for learning that all successful teachers tend to exhibit.