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Dabbling in QR Codes

eLearning Cyclops

The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. Now when it is seen in your classroom or online course participants can scan the QR Code and visit the site, obtain the text info or data. link] Here are a few ways I am starting to use QR Codes: Adding my contact information to my classroom powerpoints and manuals.

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Realistic Graphics and Learning: What’s most effective?

The eLearning Coach

Before you just place any old photo into an online course or informational web site, it’s a good idea to think about whether a realistic graphic is required. Some of the cognitive advantages of low-fidelity graphics include the following: Quick Visual Scanning: When we read an image, we scan it to extract significant information.

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So many learning style tests, so little time.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

It's commonly believed that most people favor some particular method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli or information. But other psychologists and neuroscientists have questioned the scientific basis for some learning style theories (nb: learning may be broader than just processing stimuli or information).

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Training Design

Tony Karrer

In many cases, this makes our final delivery pattern much more complex, but it greatly reduces the time required upfront by learners and allows us to get them information much more just-in-time and with more appropriate costs. When you support informal / self-directed / workgroup learning? Is it the same picture? Maybe it is?

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eLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat

Tony Karrer

You learn about this using these tools and scanning sources like blogs, trying things out, forcing yourself to make time to learn. Social Bookmarking and Wikis and Blogs are a form of social networking I never said this, but several people pointed it out in the chat. Using social bookmarking or meme tracking works okay.

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Free Tools for Getting the Most out of this Blog

Rapid eLearning

For example, I use the social bookmarking tool, Diigo , quite a bit. At my last place, the internal network was so lame that I used Diigo to bookmark and manage all of my internal links. When we access information the same way all the time, the familiarity could produce a certain level of complacency.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Top Ten AntiSpyware Apps from CNET

Mark Oehlert

Then, using another image, we added the antispyware program toan already infected hard drive to see how it scanned and removed theinfections. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us