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Disorienting Dilemmas, Eye-Opening Openings, and Inspirational Closings: Online Training 101

Mindflash

Great speakers often agonize over their opening lines. As an instructional designer, consider similar “genius openings” by making an unforgettable impression on your learners. Pamela Meyer, How to Spot a Liar, TED.com (2011). Great writers painstakingly craft the first line of their novels. All in the name of grabbing attention.

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Why DRM-Protected eBooks Are the Preferred Choice for Educational Publishing Today?

Kitaboo

Although digital publishing is a promising market, publishers, vendors, and authors are struggling with the constant threat of online piracy with the rise of peer-to-peer file exchange services like torrent sites. A digital key is required to open the eBook. Data from 2017 reveals that there were approximately 16.5

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Are we tired of resilience?

Coorpacademy

Introduced by Boris Cyrulnik, the concept of resilience states that it is possible to overcome a traumatic event, to draw strength from one’s misfortunes, and to “navigate through the torrents” (Boris C). To suffer and to heal one’s wounds, in order to heal more quickly.

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The silos start to tumble.

Learning with e's

The conference themes are also appetising, with e-portfolios, open libraries, cultural contexts for e-learning, digital literacy and e-inclusion all making an appearance. I have visions of midnight raids on unsuspecting farms and torrents of grain falling down from monstrously huge (and protected) storage areas. (you etc.etc.

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Turn Training into a Profit Center – Here’s How

eLearning 24-7

Credentials open up more hiring opportunities. Like I said about iTunes, Apple came out of the gate charging 99 cents per MP4, whereas the competition was multiple dollars and those who weren’t paying and going via Torrents, were staying clear. 99 cents is really in many eyes, not a lot of money.

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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

On the conference's social network site the conference backchannel tool Twitter is announced as "what it means to embrace a truly free and open stream of communication in the digital age." And eye wateringly free and open it became during David Galper's keynote.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. There is also a discussion going on at Tony Karrers blog , about a more open textbook creation model. » July 16, 2008 Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now. Thanks for this update.

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