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Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Project-Based Learning

Learning Routes

Fortunately, the new teaching pedagogy has incorporated the pattern of developing skills for living in a knowledge-based, technological society. Defining it in formal terms, it is a teaching methodology in which students learn and acquire skills by designing, developing, and constructing hands-on solutions to a problem.

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Daily Bookmarks 08/12/2008

Experiencing eLearning

As a result, while N-Gens interact with the world through multimedia, online social networking, and routine multitasking, their professors tend to approach learning linearly, one task at a time, and as an individual activity that is centered largely around printed text (Hartman, Dzubian, and Brophy-Ellison 2007 ). Registration required.

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7 principles of 21st-century learning and elearning

KnowledgeOne

In elearning: To ensure that the learner is at the heart of online training, it is important to avoid elearning rhyming with e-teaching. This approach is flexible — that is, it can be adapted to each individual case as needed — and applies to learning objectives, teaching methods and materials as well as to assessments.

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Teacher Voices: Naomi Hancock

Learning with e's

It's also a chance for them to voice their hopes and fears about teaching, now they are actually in the thick of it. I got into teaching because I wanted to continue my backpacking lifestyle in Thailand but needed some funds so teaching TEFL English was my ticket. This is number six in my series, asking former students on the B.Ed

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Design - Knowing Doing Gap - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

WISE Pedagogy , September 17, 2009. Four things Star Trek can teach us about Simulation Design - Free as in Freedom , September 13, 2009. Why Studies About Multitasking Are Missing The Point , September 15, 2009. Can You Teach Ethics? What do online instructors have to know about H1N1? e-bites , September 17, 2009.

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8 Proven Tips for Optimal Learning

KnowledgeOne

This is in addition to a growing interest in more humane approaches to teaching that take into account the fact that cognition and emotions are inseparable, contrary to what we have long believed… So, learners and teachers, here are some tips from the latest research for optimal learning! ” — Are we really good at multitasking?

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Google Wave - Twitter - eLearning Learning Best of October 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Online Games for Teaching Business Concepts and Ideas - Kapp Notes , October 16, 2009. Presentation Backchannel Multitasking - eLearning Technology , October 29, 2009. Adapt your course management system to fit your instruction - WISE Pedagogy , October 7, 2009. October 2009. October was a really great month for content!