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4 Lessons from Digital Learning – How Digital Learning is Transforming Our World and Rewiring our Brains

Learningtogo

A few weeks ago, I had a problem to solve and it was something of an emergency. Thought leader and President of the eLearning Guild , David Kelly, would say that I experienced a shift from waiting for someone to solve a problem, to just finding the resources and solving it myself. Solving Problems is the Essence of Learning.

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Learning Experience Design: Everything You Need to Know

eLearningMind

Share on facebook. LxDs direct their team to do a complete analysis of the learning environment, target audience, the problem the learning is trying to solve (skills deficits? Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. In the corporate world, LxDs, or Learning Experience Designers, are the rock stars in the eLearning space.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

In an effort to bridge the time and distance gap, he started making 10-minute videos of math lessons and posting them on YouTube. Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk.

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Using Facebook as a learning platform

eFront

Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. Facebook makes it easy to network and interact with other virtual students, and because most people know how to use Facebook they don’t need to become familiar with a new platform.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

The game has an open platform that allows new details to be constantly added, reflecting lessons learned from a recent mission, for example. Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. An example cited by Martin and Lin is called “ VBS 2 ” and runs on laptops. Essentially, the U.S.

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Anatomy of an eLearning Lesson: Merrill’s First Principles

Integrated Learnings

This post mimics the earlier one about Gagne’s nine events of instruction by first defining the parts of Merrill’s model, and then applying it to a short eLearning lesson. Principle #1: Problem-Centered Learning – Engage learners in solving real-world problems. We’ll look at the same sample lesson used in the earlier Gagne post.

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.