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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part I)

Web Courseworks

Try Skype or free Google video conferencing to build social presence and community by going LIVE. In the next post I will discuss organizing the online workshop learning activities consistently for the repeated Bloom Technique. Provide a mixture of media. Can you comment below on more techniques to build social presence and community?

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How to make the work from home transition smoothly

Edume

And a two year study carried out by Stanford University professor Nicholas Bloom found that telecommuters “took shorter breaks, had fewer sick days, and took less time off” - working from home enabled them to work “a true full-shift versus being late to the office or leaving early multiple times a week”. Their number one reason cited?

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The Pros and Cons of Having your Employees Continue to Work from Home

KnowledgeCity

In fact, Nicholas Bloom , Professor of Economics at Stanford University, has said in his TedxTalk that working from home should be considered “future-looking technology” from a business standpoint. Schedule in regular group discussions via Zoom or Skype to keep the ideas flowing.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Explore Bloom’s Taxonomy Using this Interactive Resource! Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning , April 22, 2010 Here is a useful interactive resource for course designers to review key ideas in Bloom’s Taxonomy. You can see quite a few people standing around drinking coffee and eating small pastries.

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Re-orientation

Jay Cross

William James described infants’ earliest perceptions of the world as a “blooming, buzzing, confusion,” speculating that babies perceive the visual world as an unrelated, disorganized series of images rather than, as is the case for adults, a structured world composed of discrete objects and events. Feeling lost? Tech savvy.

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