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Practical leadership development principles for a COVID-19 world

CLO Magazine

However, today’s leadership development programs were failing before this crisis, and now tolerating the old approach to leadership development — sitting in a classroom in an effort to learn leadership theory — is totally ineffective. And simply moving to an online learning course to learn theory isn’t any better. Leadership is a verb.

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PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism

Learning with e's

Standardised tests are administered by schools who ignore the fact that all students are different, and bells continually punctuate the timetable, dividing the school day up into an unconnected parade of subjects, each delivered in content heavy lessons. One size never did fit everyone.

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Don't miss the train!

Learning with e's

I'm just about to hop on a train and make my way up to Milton Keynes for the first time, where tomorrow I'm an external examiner for one of the Open University 's PhD candidates. Before the train arrives, there's just enough time to write a brief review in an extraordinary book that has landed on my desk this week. becomes Web 3.0.

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70-20-10 : No longer applicable to online learning – and here’s why

eLearning 24-7

I’ll be up front here. Theory is nice, but real world and real time experience is superior. Change it up. ” I’d say, “Ahh, here is the proof that the design was horrible and the requirement of linear learning set up the course to fail.” And yes, the name reflects the power err empowerment.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Semantic technologies for enabling pedagogical theories in multimedia-enhanced learning environments. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a 2011 Forrester Research report, “Informal Learning Garners Acceptance as a Legitimate Learning Approach,” 76 million millennials will make up 47 percent of the 2014 workforce and will soon become middle managers. C-suite positions will also draw from an additional 46 million Gen Xers.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Jott This Blog

Learning Visions

I find my best time for thinking up excellent blog entries is late at night when Im lying in bed. I picked up the same tip from Michele, and while I havent used Jott to blog, its a terrific way to "write" a note to yourself without endangering too many other drives. Now Im trying to maximize my time on the drive to work.

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