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Supporting online learners

Learning with e's

These include an explanation and application of Lave and Wenger's Communities of Practice , Bruner's Instructional Scaffolding , Moore and Kearsley's Four Types of Interaction model, Festinger's Social Comparison Theory, and Moore's Transactional Distance Theory , among others. Keep safe, keep well and stay at home! Unported License.

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Weekly Bookmarks (5/9/2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Resources on Section 508 and WCAG accessibility, including a tutorial on 508 and a comparison of 508 vs. WCAG. Check licenses; some are Creative Commons, some are free for commercial use, some are personal use only. Accessibility Resources. tags: accessibility webdesign section508 WCAG. Icon Search Engine | Iconfinder.

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How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness

CourseArc

Starting with the simplest level of evaluation will help your entire team or department get used to the effectiveness measurement process and is likely to increase buy-in from your colleagues when more complex steps — like pre- and post-training measurement comparisons — are introduced.

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Go compare

Learning with e's

In this post, we explore the work of Leon Festinger , namely social comparison theory. This is social comparison, and influences the way we behave and think, the clothes we wear and even the way we speak. Teachers should be aware that social comparison can have a negative influence on students'' self evaluation.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Open Content Potential But There are Challenges This year I spent quite a bit of time looking at where and how open content could get leveraged in different ways. for more on this. Top eLearning Sites?

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Humans, machines and learning

Learning with e's

Whatever side of the argument you subscribe to, it is interesting to note the comparisons between human and machine. Humans, machines and learning by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Reference Tegmark, M. 2017) Life 3.0:

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Future technologies now

Learning with e's

In fact, it was surprising how inexpensive but robust some of the alternatives were in comparison to Cardboard. Photo by Steve Wheeler Future technologies now by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Personally, I can't wait.