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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

Here’s how to help them find good sources. Later, we were told “you can use online sources, but not Wikipedia.” And later still, we were told “you can use Wikipedia not as a source itself, but as a source for other sources, and by the way, here are the MLA guidelines for how to site them in your term paper.”.

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Modeling mental models

Clark Quinn

Wikipedia defines them as “an internal representation of external reality” Really, it’s an explanation of how a small part of the world works. It’s worth taking some time and modeling mental models in use. To start with, what are mental models? The next question is why mental models.

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6 great tools to help determine the title of your next course

Superb Learning

A good course title can help improve brand recognition, set you apart from the competition and also give people a general idea of what your course is about. So here are six useful tools that can help you determine the title of your next course. Wikipedia is tool that many probably don’t think about using as a keyword search tool.

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Nudge Theory: Tips To Enhance Corporate eLearning Outcomes

Infopro Learning

Nudge theory pushes learners to revise the concept with the help of notifications, questions, and examples at different time intervals. Microlearning and mobile learning facilitate crisp, bite-sized learning and help transfer and knowledge assimilation quickly. Nudge Theory and Its Relevance In the Corporate L&D.

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Smarter ways to improve the quality of Employee-generated Learning

Challenge to Learn

The biggest benefit of Employee-generated Learning is that it will help you to keep your content up-to-date. Wikipedia effect. You need this feedback in order to get what we call the “Wikipedia effect’. But if you decide to build-in a quality check process you will take away this advantage. It is all about responsibility.

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A new common tragedy?

Clark Quinn

Now, Yelp is a service where people can share reviews of almost any service: repairs, meals, … And it’s just an example, there are other ways people share information, such as Wikipedia , NextDoor , etc. Yelp has helped me find good places to eat and get valuable services. Am I wrong?).

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ChatGPT-3 Has Everyone Talking

Learningtogo

First, Open AI used the largest training dataset, combining a database containing much of the internet, a huge library of books, and Wikipedia. Because its training included unvalidated sources like the internet and Wikipedia, some of the content it produces must be corrected. Think of it as a crowd-sourced training effort.

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