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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity. Properly d.

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The Planet Captivate Blog – Cognitive Load

Adobe Captivate

In this post, I’d like to focus our attention on the theory side of things. There are a variety of terms used with regards to cognitive load theory, but I keep finding myself visualizing it in my mind as a car’s tachometer. Instant messaging. Welcome back, Cadets, and Happy New Year! So let’s get started. That’s right.

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Social Learning Theory: What Is It & Its Importance in Workplace Training

Instancy

Social Learning theory is no novelty. Developed in the 50s by legendary psychologist Albert Bandura together with his student Richard Walters, the social learning theory emphasizes that humans tend to learn more efficiently when they learn together. And it made sense as businesses unleashed multifaceted benefits. Not anymore!

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Face time

E-Learning Provocateur

We have asynchronous tools such as online discussion forums, synchronous tools such as instant messaging, and semi-synchronous tools such as Twitter. Much more so than if either of us were studying alone. Of course, peer-to-peer interaction isn’t a novel concept in e-learning.

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Social Learning: An Ongoing Experiment

CLO Magazine

Psychologist Albert Bandura’s social learning theory suggests that people learn from one another through observation, imitation and modeling. Among the most adopted technologies are secure instant messaging, discussion forums, video channels, online shared work spaces and internal blogs.

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The Role of Immersive Learning to Improve Learning Experiences

Aptara

Learners can put theory into practice. Chatbots interact through instant messaging by artificially recreating human dialogue patterns. It keeps people’s attention and helps them stay focused by being effective, engaging, highly informative, rewarding, and easy to use.

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A Brief History of Instructional Design

Origin Learning

Many modern concepts in multi-user computing such as forums,e-mail, chat rooms, message boards, online testing, picture languages, remote screen sharing, multiplayer games and instant messaging were developed on PLATO. A Rising Interest in Constructivism and the Importance of Performance -1990s.