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Have you heard this term - PLN? Personal Learning Network. It's becomming a mainstream word in the field of education. Skip Via , an Instructional Technology professor at the University of Alaska, has createda nice 5 minute video that thoroughly explains the purpose of a PLN, what a PLN is, and he outlines exactly the tools he uses to make his PLN. Watch the video and then scroll down afterwards and I will describe how I make my PLN.

e-Learning Acupuncture

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http://blog.cathy-moore.com/ This quick, visual approach to instructional design helps you change what people do , not just what they know. It keeps your team members focused on a measurable business goal, and it can keep stakeholders from adding extraneous information. Read more

Elearning instructional design ideas - Making Change blog

Of the questions asked of me during DemoFest, I think most were regarding development tools. In regards to development tools used, the course is truly a Frankencourse , a term I believed coined by David Anderson ( @eLearning ). So here are the development tools I used for this project. http://minutebio.com/blog/

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E-Learning Curve Blog

http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/ Finally! The official Moodle mobile app for iPhone is now available for download from the Apple App Store . Access to the list of participants in your courses with options to send a Moodle message, add a note or add user contact details to your mobile address book Now I have no reason not to upgrade my own Moodle implementation to version 2.1: I’ll report my experiences of using the app when I’ve got it plugged into my site and working.
1) Broadening access in ways that dramatically reduce the cost of providing access to quality educational resources and experiences, particularly for students in remote locations or other situations where challenges such as low student enrollments make the traditional school model impractical; 2) Engaging students in active learning with instructional materials and access to a wealth of resources that can facilitate the adoption of research-based principles and best practices from the learning sciences, an application that might improve student outcomes without substantially increasing costs; 3) Individualizing and differentiating instruction based on student performance on diagnostic assessments and preferred pace of learning, thereby improving the efficiency with which students move through a learning progression; 4) Personalizing learning by building on student interests, which can result in increased student motivation, time on task and ultimately better learning outcomes; http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html

Online Learning Update

http://www.jarche.com/

Harold Jarche

Imagine if we limited our conversations to only those in the same office. We would miss out on so many learning opportunities. Well it seems some people are still missing out. Today, people with larger and more diverse networks have an advantage as professionals and in dealing with change. They are engaged in a constant flow of sense-making through multiple conversations.

Mobilemind | Thoughts on mobile computing and elearning

http://mobilemind.net/ UPDATE: April 19, 2011 Project now hosted elsewhere, see fyi-bookmarklets on Github I wrote a simple bookmarklet to make it very easy to share a snippet of a web page and the URL by email (see Install and Usage below). I was inspired by Mike Chamber’s “fyi” Firefox ubiquity command which has served me well for years. The “fyi” command (and now the bookmarklet) is a very handy way to select some text on a web page and fire off an email quoting part of the page and including the URL– with minimal typing and no copy-and-paste work.
You are not logged in. [] [] Subscribe to OLDaily E-Learning News, Opinion, Technology. I confess I don't quite get it, but the SPAWS 'Paradata recipes, identifiers, and starting integration' looks to be an interesting development. The idea behind SPAWS (I still don't know what it stands for) is that "different web app stores share usage data such as reviews, ratings, and stats."

Welcome to Stephen's Web ~ Stephen's Web

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http://www.corporatetrainingelearningblog.com/ Article provided by Guest Blog Contributor Amber Johnson. In today’s technology age, man’s best friend has a QWERTY key pad instead of four legs. For the academic, an iPhone can be a foe just as easily, with its various interesting but distracting capabilities. In order to use the iPhone to its fullest potential, learners should use it for work as well as play, and thanks to these application creators, that task is not only possible, it is fun as well. From reading worldwide news to creating budgets, from learning foreign languages to appreciating the arts, these applications contain everything you need to feed your superior intellect. Reuters : Get the official Reuters mobile site on your iPhone or iPodTouch.

Corporate Training & e-Learning Blog

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E-Learning Queen

Online learning for children from ages 12 to 18 is an area of great growth and promise, as more schools move from strictly brick and mortar to blended approaches. The Michigan Virtual University has been an innovator in the field and offers courses to a wide array of schools and learners, who are able to obtain the courses in many ways.. Welcome to an interview with Dr. David Myers, Vice President of Educational Programs and Outreach. Michigan Virtual University designs, develops and provides online learning to middle schoolers and high school students as well as professional development for Michigan educators.
by Jennie Ruby "PowerPoint...has beaten the bulleted list to death," says Skills & Drills reader Jeannine Statter . "Add a new content slide to a PowerPoint presentation and up pops a bullet followed by Click to add text . [Because every] new slide [is presented] this way, I'm lead to believe I need a bulleted list whether I really have items that need bulleting or not." She goes on to say that "A list is an invaluable means of presenting information when it is used properly. But a sea of bullets in a presentation or manual is just as ineffective as no bullets at all."

I Came, I Saw, I Learned...

Steve Martin is one of my all time favorite performers. I remember growing up watching him on Saturday Night Live . I even had his album Let's Get Small on 8-track tape .

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

E-Learning 24/7 Blog

In this week’s post, we explore the state of standalone assessment/quiz tools and online proctoring systems. I also discuss Collaborative Learning Systems, formally online authoring systems. Lastly, the latest news on the Podcasts and a one question survey on advanced analytics for administrators.
When we interact with web and intranet teams, we find many struggling to move beyond conceptual-level discussions on information organization. Hours on end are spent on discussing the meaning of “metadata”, “controlled vocabulary” and “taxonomy” without any strategic understanding of how everything fits together. Being so bogged down at this level they fail to look beyond to the main reason for their pursuit—organizing information for others (the end users) so that they can find the information easily. Web and intranet teams are not the only ones facing this challenge. Staff in companies are finding themselves tasked with organizing, say, hundreds of project documents on their collaboration space.

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Breakthrough eLearning

Jay Cross and his colleagues at Internet Time Group have recently published an interesting article on the evolution of work. Noting the major shifts in human history, from the Agricultural Age, to the Industrial Age, to the Information Age, they now say we are on the verge of "Terra Nova," a new age characterized by "creative collaboration in networks." Their thesis is that Terra Nova will supplant traditional top-down hierarchies with networks of people working collaboratively, sharing information in real time, to solve problems. To quote: We are seeing this shift occurring in our own work for clients recently. Many of the projects that we have worked on lately have been less about creating online courses, and more about creating the means for individuals to learn collaboratively (e.g. learning communities, wikis, etc.), and to learn at the point of need (e.g. searchable knowledge repositories, embedded electronic supports, etc.).