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Soft landing

E-Learning Provocateur

Wikipedia describes soft skills as “psychosocial”, and I feel this hits the mark closer than most. Unfortunately Wikipedia goes on to declare that hard skills are specific to individual professions, which is demonstrably false. It’s certainly transferable.

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Top 10 Learning Tools for 2019

Clark Quinn

The learning comes from just me thinking through things to keep populating the post, and the exercise of actually putting the thoughts down. Slack: I work with a number of groups, and one in particular really benefits from the social interaction Slack provides between meetings. WordPress: my first learning tool is this blog.

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Revisiting personal learning

Clark Quinn

You can also search for information, using DuckDuckGo or Google, or going straight to Wikipedia or other appropriate information resources you know. And, of course, you can ask, using your network, or Quora, or in any social media platform like LinkedIn or Facebook. They’re your antenna for resonating with interesting new bits.

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Creating a Moodboard

Moodle Journal

One of my courses this year is in Website Production, and I was interested to see that the design stage included a moodboard, I was a little unclear about exactly what that meant exactly, so I decided to make a start with Wikipedia. It seems that you can also invite up to 10 friends along to make the whole exercise a more social experience.

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10 eLearning buzzwords you need to know!

eFront

In this post we’ve put together short descriptions of the top 10 buzzwords in eLearning at the moment: Tin Can, Social Learning, Gamification, mLearning, Tablet learning, Rapid eLearning, Microlearning, Personalization, Blended learning, and Lifelong learning. Social Learning. Gamification. Personalization.

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Is the ivory tower crumbling?

Learning with e's

Rarely do scholars refer to 32 percent of the peer-reviewed articles in the social and 27 percent in the natural sciences. They are often excluded from research assessment exercises, and can be overlooked for promotion or tenure. What if talented and knowledgeable lay-people had been excluded from contributing to Wikipedia?

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So many learning style tests, so little time.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I thought a learning style test was a nice ramp up for an exercise where people had to blog about their own facilitator style - from the idea that it is good to know your own preferences and biases as a trainer/facilitator. A definition on learning style from wikipedia is: Learning styles are different ways that a person can learn.