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How Millennials Connect to Mobile Learning

LearnDash

On the contrary: the Millennial generation is full of highly-driven self-starters eager to absorb information and put it to use. They assimilate information quickly, and aren’t interesting in watching lecture videos for fifty minutes at a time. Many Millennials—especially those who self-select into an online course—are power learners.

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

High quality information from guest hosts. Forum is good for giving students time and space to think carefully and express themselves. Used MySpace & a wiki. Chose MySpace b/c lots of existing religious tools available (e.g., Students did thoughtful posts. Good feedback from students. 50-60% involvement. Conclusions.

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Using Content Distribution to Market E-Learning

LearnDash

The big benefit of using a site like Medium (or LinkedIn’s published content, or public forums like Quora or Reddit) is that it puts you in front of (potentially) a lot of people. Let’s say the website goes the way of MySpace. The pro: reaching a large audience quickly. The content you publish on your own site belongs to you.

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The (Eventual) Downfall of MOOCs

LearnDash

Despite the fact that delivery of course content is still going through natural growing pains (you have to believe that we can move past the archaic “class forum”, right?) No pesky ads, no concerns about personal data being leaked or sold – just harmless procrastination.

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All This Talk About Reading

Learning Rebels

These were the days before the interwebs, before twitter, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. I had to go to the library or Barnes and Noble to find information. What better way than to debate the reading but in an online forum. Reading set my foundation and in turn grew my knowledge. Enter Rebellious Readers.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. You’re encouraged to develop “connections”, not friends, and there are forums and messaging capabilities to develop cross-collaboration with your network.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. You’re encouraged to develop “connections”, not friends, and there are forums and messaging capabilities to develop cross-collaboration with your network.