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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): What if "This is your brain on drugs".was a good thing?

Mark Oehlert

Some leaders may be bornwith a genetic head start, but all truly effective leaders are made, not born." March 25, 2008 in Neuro | Permalink Technorati Tags : learning , neuroscience TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference What if "This is your brain on drugs".was

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Reflections from Adaptive Paths UX Week 2007

Mark Oehlert

Then we extend the idea ofmanipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective whenpart of an activity the learner experiences as constructing ameaningful product." I was also truly and deeply impressed with the work that has gone into the design of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

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How Do You Communicate with Your E-Learners? - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Some come into the course with various levels of experience and expertise. A large part of effective communication in elearning is through establishing context. The course needs to be motivating, effective, and interesting. Effective communication is important for success. Technorati. Jiminator. Carolina Suarez.

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Escape from Compliance Training Jail - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

When people have to go through a serial training process regardless of their level of expertise, two problems arise - you lose productivity and learners become totally disengaged in the learning process. I feel that if you can craft an effective test, then give the students the option to attempt the test before taking the course.

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7 Proven Techniques for Keeping Your E-Learning Customers Happy - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Now it could have been the subject matter (I don’t know enough accountants to be sure), but my guess is that we spent too much time listening to the client and not enough trusting our expertise. Leverage your expertise. I was intimidated and not prepared to offer my expertise. Thanks for sharing your expertise!

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

By doing this, George argues that vendors (LMS in particular), and the organizations they sell to, will begin to see their product no longer as simply an event-based tool for learning, but rather as a process-based tool for capacity planning and workplace effectiveness. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.