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Veronica
Gamification in eLearning: Are We Getting it Right?
In the eLearning world, gamification is to 2012 what social media/learning was to 2011. The term is getting thrown around quite a bit, ...
Chris
The Growing List of Free Online Educational Content Resources
I've long been a big fan of TED videos. Today they launched the beta of a new way to utilize their huge library of educational content ...
Flip it! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed blog.ted.com
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading -- through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.
Veronica
Veronica
OK. Learning styles--rubbish or reputable?
Also going by the term "learning preferences", at some point, all of us have been assessed to determine our particular "style" of ...
Will at Work Learning willatworklearning.com
I will give $1000 (US dollars) to the first person or group who can prove that taking learning styles into account in designing instruction can produce meaningful learning benefits. I've been suspicious about the...
Chris
Earning eLearning Badges
One of the big challenges in learning is to provide individuals with a portable, transferable, and recognizable way to demonstrate their ...
The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today's fast-changing...
Rachael
USC concludes: "Most print newspapers will be gone in five years" and "The desktop PC is dead; long live the tablet".
From a report set to be released in early 2012, some very interesting points regarding technology and a shift that is in process. Since ...
Is America at a digital turning point? annenberg.usc.edu
Posted December 14, 2011 Americans love their online technology, but there may be a cost to their personal and professional lives. A decade of studies by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future creates a portrait of the...
Jake
Chris
Is lecturing useless for learners?
Interesting story. Physics professors find that lecturing does little to boost student learning and explore other means of teaching ...
Lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique, and now that information is everywhere some say it's a waste of time. Now, physicists have the data to prove it. But efforts to lose the lecture encounter resistance —...
Veronica
What is the difference between social learning and social media for learning?
In conducting background research on incorporating social media (including wikis, microblogging tools, forums, etc.) I came across this ...
Nuts and Bolts: Social Media for Learning learningsolutionsmag.com
Lately in the industry there’s been a lot of tangling of terms, most of them including the word “social”: social media, social learning, social technologies, social platforms, social socials... We’ve attempted to address this...
Veronica
eLearning Mythbusting
In a recent article in Learning Solutions magazine, columnist Marc Rosenberg, debates and debunks a handful of myths that have cropped ...
Veronica
Which came first: the category of cognitive learning or the degree of mastery needed?
As a newcomer to instructional design, I’m curious about the real-world application of instructional theory. What is the methodology ...
Chris
Is This the Death of Flash?
As the article below points out, it seems pretty obvious that now that Adobe has thrown in the towel and will no longer offer Flash for ...
Adobe Flash Meets Its End pcmag.com
It's been clear for a few years now that unless mobile Flash's performance and reliability improved, it was a goner; that day has now come, and soon, desktop Flash will soon follow.
Rachael
STEM – Our Future Demands. I am proud to be a STEM!
It's not so surprising that the U.S. Department of Labor has projected that by 2018, the U.S. will have more than 1.2 million job ...
E-learning & Multimedia Journalism Examples elearningexamples.com
STEM – Our Future Demands The U.S. will have more than 1.2 million job openings in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related occupations by 2018. These include scientists, doctors, software developers and...
Claire
How to simulate a laboratory experience
We've been working on simulations of lab experiments from many scientific disciplines and are confronting a range of philosophies about ...
