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Information overload: Is it time for a data diet?
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Events
Research
E-mail Newsletters ...
Computerworld Reports
Zones
Application Performance
Business Continuity ... guarantees complete protection against all know and unknown email threats. By providing 24 hour support, your business can ... onsite IT support, SQL Anywhere offers enterprise-caliber features in a database that is easily embedded and widely deployed ... Cisco infrastructure for Superior Application Performance
Learn about the AMD ...
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eLearning 2.0 -> Informal Learning -> learning 2.0 -> web 2.0
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... nonformal/formal performance support method. Also see Tony Karrer's response and Clark Quinn's response.
Launching in ... the hypes is built on bad research (mostly bad numbers in this case).
If informal learning was really all that dominant ... a nonformal learning method where managers, supervisors, and experienced performers set the stage for the tool's ...
Big Dog, Little Dog
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Updates to Top 10 Tools Lists
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... do share your 10 favourite tools for learning or performance/productivty support.
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There have been 4 updated Top 10 Tools lists this week from:
John Shaffer - John is an educational technologist
based in Austin, Texas, USA
Clark Quinn - Clark is the Executive Director of Quinnovation, an
eLearning consultancy in the US.
Bruce Richards - Bruce is the
Research and Instructional Design Coordinator at the Office
of Sponsored Research and Programs at Missouri State
University in Springfield, ...
Jane Knight
- Saturday, August 23, 2008 -
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A Better Learning to Performance Model and Job Aid
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For almost a decade I've been building a model of how learning works to prompt performance. Each iteration gets ... performance and results.
As a job aid to assign responsibilities and tasks.
This graphic ... researchers on learning, memory, instruction, and cognition who have helped me understand learning at a deep level ... Laures who commented on an earlier version of this model.
Download Learning-Performance_Diagram_v2.pdf.
As always ... learning and performance is too complicated to include every factor of relevance. My goal is to create a model simple ...
Will at Work Learning
- Friday, August 22, 2008 -
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Workplace Learning Today: A Daily (Mon-Fri) Newsletter
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... research on all aspects of workplace learning, including training and development, performance support, job aids ... Research Council Canada (read more about the newsletter here). I won’t say much more about OLDaily other than it is a ... other news sources, and welcome suggestions for new sources that we might not know about.
So, Brandon Hall ...
Janet Clarey
- Tuesday, August 12, 2008 -
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eLearning on a Global Scale
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... support 6 different languages (English, French, French-Canadian, Italian, German, and Spanish). This is new territory to me; I have only worked with LMSs and eLearning courses in English. So I embarked on many hours of research (thank you ... while harnessing talent and performance management in order to align our metrics with a user-centered approach? Sheesh.)
I ... supported the required languages, and second, they all rated well in The eLearning Guild’s 2008 360-Degree Report on ... others who are tasked with researching, selecting, and implementing multi-lingual eLearning.
eLearning Weekly
- Thursday, August 7, 2008 -
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Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Plannning
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... information technology, and impact on the larger, higher
education community. For this review, researchers collected citations identifying
and supporting unique trends in a document that grew to over 140 pages. Themes
emerged as ... ;attended”
two or more institutions.
Students’ demand
is being supported and answered. In 1998, 83% of ... instructor
contact, support services, and technology training (Dortch, 2003; Diaz, 2002;
Dubois, 1996).
4. The ... women), a trend
supported by the fact that more women are entering the workforce (“Lifelong,” ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University
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... home
open & free courses
project overview
publications & research
contact us
DOWNTIME ALERT! OLI courses will be unavailable on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 from 10:00 to 11:00am (EDT) for maintenance.
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current events
2008 OLI Summer Workshops
July 7-8, 2008
TRACK 1 Faculty Course ... semesterâ??s worth of material in half as much time and performed as well or better than students learning from ... .
> read more (pdf)
> LOOK inside OLI Logic & Proofs
Supporting Student Learning
One of the most ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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's Time to Drop E-Learning - 11 Jul 2007
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... the reach of electronic delivery into just-in-time performance support at the desktop and videoed presentations ... millstone to be ditched as soon as possible. LMS providers now stress the terms ?Performance Management? and ?Human Capital ... to one point. Technology, learning aids ( or props?) need a good teacher behind them to support, encourage, drag, push ... of the medium is quite right, and is just about the thrust of the article.Editor_Researcher - I have no idea what ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Distance Education Journals and Readings
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Instructional Design
Case Studies
Research and Statistics
Evaluation and Assessment
Statistics
Predictions ...
Learning Environment
Library Support
Training
Student Readiness
Some Wisconsin Resources ... of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education. It is designed for a wide audience of teachers, trainers, adult educators, researchers and other specialists in education, training and communications. Edited by ... promote and encourage Canadian research and scholarly work in distance education and provide a forum for the ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Will at Work Learning
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Will at Work Learning
Will Thalheimers research-based commentary on learning, performance ... highlights the importance of the performance context in supporting learners in applying what they learned. Later we ... learning intervention and responding generated by other means, for example job aids, performance support, management ... remember what theyve learned in the original learning intervention. Second, other triggers (i.e., performance-support ... retrieval, while other times it is more effective to rely on performance support interventions. Sometimes it is better ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Corporate Training & e-Learning Blog
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... a link between mentoring programs and employee performance. A key step in their research was to relate mentoring to measurable performance improvement agreed to by Sunâ??s senior management. The metrics included rate of promotions and ... financial and market performance. They have successfully measured it and they link leadership development programs to the impact ... ?? that they were higher performers than the control group. They also found that the mentees had similar superior performance. So Sunâ??s â??senior managers were aligned around the business outcomes measurements based on compensation ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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knowledge tree
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... background is in instructional design and teaching and I have done researching. I have also operated as a consultant for a ... learning management system and a number of other systems that support that in TAFE Tasmania. That includes The Learning Edge ... away and learn from them and come back and probably perform some sort of online quiz…and yes that may be a ... kind of repertoire that is directed to â?¦ we have a site based on some research a couple of years ago called â ... a form of bulletin board. I would like to contend very very strongly that bulletin boards work well for support ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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JOLT - Testing An Experimental Universally Designed Learning Unit in a Graduate Level Online Teacher Education Course
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... research on effective online practices, there are no
guiding principles for ... ).
There were several research questions addressed in
this study. First ...
learners? A second research question was whether
participants would report ... posed several
smaller questions to support the findings from the ...
students, and participation in this research gave
them first-hand experience in and ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration - Visions Shaping the Future of Online Education:Understanding its Historical Evolution, Implications, and Assumptions
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... support is crucial because research has shown that the more the technical difficulties experienced by the students the ... online education. Recommendations for the advancement of online education, including future research, are given ... Statistics, 2006).
Much research has been conducted related to teaching and learning online. The Illinois Online Network ... universities have written policies, guidelines, or technical support for faculty members or students. Asynchronous ... , financial support, course releases) for distance education faculty (Burrell, 1954; Watkins, 1991). In addition, ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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ANSI career opportunities
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... and supporting the TMB secretariat;
Carry research, plus consulting, networking and collaborating with ... and trade press publications;
Supports the maintenance of content for the ATIS web site;
Supports design, layout and ... Revenue Analyst B to join the
staff at our Washington, DC location. He will be responsible for performing ... work
groups;
Experience demonstrating skill performing general administrative duties, such ... share relevant information;
Support development of draft documents for Corning ...
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EDUCAUSE - Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues, 2007
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... and learning. We are also developing a richer understanding of learning and how to support our campus constituents. As ... :
Establishing and supporting a culture of evidence
Demonstrating improvement of learning
Translating learning research into practice
Selecting appropriate models and strategies for e-learning
Providing tools to meet growing student expectations
Providing professional development and support to new audiences
Sharing content, applications, and ... to support accountability efforts, academic IT leaders must assist the campus community in focusing the scope of ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix
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... these mashup developers were performing free research and development and prototyping on Googles behalf, even as they ... University of British Columbias Office of Learning Technology and is a Research Fellow with Utah State Universitys Center for ... composer, the performer, and, indeed, the consumer overlap. . . . In fact, implicit in electronic culture is an acceptance ... practice to new levels of activity and imagination. The ease of copying and manipulating digital media naturally supports ... epistemic legitimacy, it is an astonishing resource that provides an excellent starting point for research on almost ...
delicious eLearning
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Course Management Systems Versus Learning Management Systems - Learning Circuits
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... track performance, and launch learning materials. But the two were designed for very different uses. As a result ... compares CMSs and LMSs.
CMSs: designed to support academic classroom courses
Course management systems (CMSs) are online systems that were originally designed to support classroom learning in academic settings, such as universities and high schools. CMSs provide instructors with the ability to perform the following tasks:
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LMSs: designed to support corporate training
Learning management systems (LMS) refers to software that ...
delicious eLearning
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I do not work in the nude and other issues with working (and learning) online | Janet Clarey
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A Brandon Hall Research Blog
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delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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10 Damaging E-learning Myths (elearningpost)
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... emerging: e-learning should be any technology intervention, which
helps people improve their performance. Therefore, Knowledge
Management, Performance Support Systems, Intranets, Practice
environments and standard electronic courses should all fall into
the category.
We always need to ask, "How can we use technology to help people
perform their best?"
5 ... -learning?" They think
they are in the content delivery business instead of the improving
user performance business. The ... -learning to solve this performance issue?" This would set the
focus firmly on people and performance rather ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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The Technology Source Archives - Online Drop Rates Revisited
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... and, according to some researchers, tend to suggest academic non-success (Diaz,
2000a; Phipps &
Merisotis, 1999 ... options for research and practice.
Differences Between Online and Traditional Students
The demographic differences ... isolation of the distance learning environment (p. 134 [print]; "Discussion," ¶ 2
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Performance ... students that attain a grade of "C" or above,
overall classroom performance (e.g., exam scores), or student satisfaction ... -campus
counterparts" (p. 95 [print]; p.95 [online]).
Ridley and Sammour (1996) examined student performance ...
delicious eLearning
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e-Learning Centre by Learning Light - Designing e-Learning
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... performance and support - but training is still the deliverable. What makes great training? Here one of the masters of ... and Instructional Support Staff can use this site as a reference for themselves or as a resource for the faculty they support.
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Want to know more about designing interactivity?
From Sussex University ... design and discuss each in some detail." Andrew Brown and Bradley Voltz, International Review of Research in Open and ...
"As with any of the performing arts, an effective voiceover begins with a well-crafted script. You dont have to have ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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Helping eLearners Succeed - Campus Technology
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... support to online learners
Frank Christ is professor emeritus at California State University-Long Beach, where he founded an award winning learning assistance support system. He also is the co-developer and content editor of Learning Support Centers in Higher Education (LSCHE, a free web portal for learning support center resources. And he is the author of ... at professional conferences he has presented many faculty workshops about support for online students. Here, he ... support services they might not be aware of on your own campus.
Help students discover the wealth of academic support ...
delicious eLearning
- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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JISC infoNet - Effective Use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) infoKit Overview
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... from long experience of teaching and research within the UK Open Universitys Institute of Educational Technology, Robin ... deployment of a VLE; the infoKit may be used individually by a tutor or by a staff developer who is supporting tutors to get ... effectively but to encourage a spirit of discovery based on current research. A recent EDUCAUSE report found that ... levels, decrease failure rate and increase performance. Also as students are able to explore at their own pace they are ... VLE
Identify opportunities and recognise limitations for the use of VLEs for teaching and the support of ...
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- Friday, August 1, 2008 -
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