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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

By tracking learner engagement, institutions can identify areas where improvement is needed and tailor their teaching strategies accordingly. Open Educational Resources (OERs): Open Educational Resources are freely accessible educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and more.

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How humor helps + Powtoon review

Making Change

The cartoon is a trailer more than a “teaching” tool, since it just touches on the main points. I poked around Google Scholar and found studies that seem to agree that (relevant!) humor in teaching can increase retention, motivation, and comprehension. What research says about humor.

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Taking Time to Learn with Alex Salas

TechSmith Camtasia

I follow Google Scholar, instead of doing a Google search. Because with Google you get you anybody and their mother. Go to google scholar and you’re going to get academic papers.”. Organizational teaching – how to teach someone who’s learning for their job. Using the right tools.

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Vote for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013

eFront

and/or one for teaching, training or e-learning. A vote for Google will be a vote for Google Search, so if you want to vote for other Google tools, you will need to name them individually, e.g. Google Docs/Drive, Google Scholar, Google Maps, etc. What is a learning tool? Voting guidance.

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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

Google Scholar features most of the chapter for free. Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Below is this month’s chapter summary. For the full text, here’s a Springer Link , which is free with subscription, or you can purchase the chapter or book.

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Sharpest tools in the box

Learning with e's

OK, there is a lot of rubbish on there, but if you use your digital literacies to discern the good from the bad, you''ll find it is an incredible resource for learning and teaching. 7) Google. Many of the Google suite of tools have become quite important in my working day. 6) My iPhone.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

tools or user generated content tools are very exciting and I think promise to greatly enhance distance teaching and learning. New tools give rise to new ways to teach and learn and these are guided by our understanding of teaching and learning pedagogy. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0

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