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Telling Stories

Upside Learning

Humans telling stories embed information in them, and when someone listens to stories, the brain searches for a deeper meaning beyond what the words are saying. Stories are unique in how they use language; story writers use words with visual, auditory, olfactory, and kinesthetic associations, to evoke feelings in readers.

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Digital Badges for Educational Achievement

Web Courseworks

If you’re an association education or technology director, you might be intrigued by the possibility of bringing badges to your members. During our CourseStage Users Group Meeting earlier this year, consultant Mickie Rops cautioned associations against jumping on the badges bandwagon prematurely.

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How Do Associations Drive Lifelong Learning? It Depends

Talented Learning

According to the most recent IRS reports, nearly 64,000 professional and trade associations are based in the U.S. JAKE SAYS: Over the past few decades, community associations (homeowners associations and cooperatives) have experienced explosive growth. Today, nearly 350,000 community associations represent 70 million residents.

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Why we must deliberately embed curiosity instead of conformity

CLO Magazine

Part of the reason curiosity is so powerful is because it inherently involves and boosts our stress tolerance, in turn helping us cope with the anxiety, doubt and confusion associated with moving beyond the known to embrace novelty. Three ways to do so follow. Change the “new skill” paradigm to a “meta-skill” one.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Reimagined Learning: Activities elaborated

Clark Quinn

In this case, I want to elaborate on the notion of activities, and some associated properties. Another important property of these activities is that they embed, possibly at multiple levels. I’ve been reflecting on the new learning model I proposed earlier , and want to share some elaborations with you.

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Putting the moo into mooc

E-Learning Provocateur

Each image has two links associated with it: On the right, a link to my corresponding blog post; and on the left, a link to Wikipedia to shed more light on the esoteric Warholian angle. I then tried to embed the media into this blog post, but unfortunately WordPress.com doesn’t allow plugins that contain JavaScript code.

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