Edublogs. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: My year in review. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learni. Here is the final list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled from the contributions of 278 learning professionals - from education and workplace learning - worldwide. Thanks to all who contributed their Top 10 Tools for learning.
Below is the presentation I have shared on Slideshare. You will also be able to find the full list at my main C4LPT site: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009. I have also produced two other related lists: One shows the Top 100 Tools by category. The second list shows the Winners & Losers in 2009, e.g. the new tools on the list this year, 25 of them - of which the highest placed is Evernote, followed by Prezi.the tools that returned to the list this year after a break in 2008, including Elgg and Picasathe tools that moved up the list this year. eLearning Technology. Is Twitter Being Used As A Training Tool? | New Learning Playboo. Twitter, a social networking platform used for microblogging, is a free service that lets you send the briefest of messages (with a maximum of 140 characters) to everyone in your network. It marries the mass appeal of blogging with the speed and ease of text messaging. There has been a growing interest in how to use these new forms of social media for learning & development.
Driving this interest is the fact that Millennials, or those born after 1981, make up 22 percent of the workforce now and will grow to comprise 46 percent of the workforce by the year 2020. This is the generation that is most likely to be using Twitter. So given this level of activity, are companies using Twitter to it’s fullest potential for learning & development? Learning for the 21st Century — Informal Learning Blog. Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete.
Jay Cross exposes the inadequacies of traditional learning and discusses a new paradigm for learning in the 21st Century. WHAT IS LEARNING? Learning is the process of figuring out how the world works. Neurons in the minds of learners forge pathways and form patterns that convert the booming, buzzing cacophony bombarding our senses into the simple vista we call reality. Learning develops new capacities, skills, values, understanding, and preferences. Organisms only stop learning when they die. Learning is not one activity.
Most organisational learning is built on nineteenth-century principles, and these days that’s a formula for disaster. Along came knowledge work. The best learning is self-motivated. NOW WHAT? Constructivism. Putting the social into e-learning « M’s Primary. There is no one true reality – rather, individual interpretations of the world. These are shaped by our experience and our social interactions. Learning is a process of adapting to and organising one’s quantitative world, rather than discovering pre-existing ideas imposed by others. Clements & Battista, 1990. Constructivism is essentially a theory of learning, which developed from the work of Piaget. It is based on the belief that ‘reality’ is not an external absolute, but a personal composite constructed from our active thinking and previous experience.
Learning requires the active construction of knowledge, rather than absorbing it from books and lecturers (Eckerdal, et al. (2006). Zurita, G. & Nussbaum, M. (2004:235-6) cite the work of Rochelle and Teasley (1995) in listing the characteristics of effective constructivist working environments. Constructive means that the students have to modify their current knowledge schemes to integrate new information and acquire new knowledge.
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