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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

Based on seminar where doctoral students created online community projects. The seminar raised a question about whether online religious communities could be a model for online educational experiences. Used wiki for communication with a church small group. Didn’t really create a sense of community. Sue Phillips.

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5 Essential online survival skills by Howard Rheingold

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Howard Rheingold is said to be one of the first community managers on the web and seems to be walking his talk, which is why I bought his book. The 5 skills he mentions are: Attention. sounds everywhere it is much harder to focus your attention. So the skill is how to divide your attention? How to focus? Participation.

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Open Office, Work Culture, and Productivity

The Performance Improvement Blog

But the business community insists this is good for me. It''s way more efficient and less maddening than having my Gchat icon flashing all day, since I already suffer from multitasking overload, thanks to email, Yammer, Campfire, social media, and multiple browser tabs. Instead of IM''ing each other, we''re talking in person.

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Mobile Learning in India

Upside Learning

In addition, cell phones complement the short-attention, casual, multitasking style of today’s young learners. Additionally, rural communities will benefit tremendously not just from mLearning, but the mobile technology as a whole. All of these learning processes can be supported through mobile phones.

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5 Ways Mobile Learning Can Enhance Your Course

LearnDash

However several mobile language apps have included a chat feature so that members of their language community can text each other and help with corrections within the app. Either way, audio content is easy for me to consume while I accomplish other tasks, provided those other tasks don’t require all my attention.

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Micro-Learning as a Workplace Learning Strategy

Learnnovators

In todays’ time-crunched, attention-deficit and multitasking world, micro-learning seems to have cropped up as a possible solution to corporate learning and personal development. The deluge of available information and decreasing attention span. Should it be something that takes less than 5 minutes to consume?

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My First 72 hours with the Blackberry Playbook

mLearning Revolution

While most users wouldn’t pay attention to this, I have spent the majority of my professional career in the world of Technical Communications, so I’m always interested in seeing what companies are doing in the area of Online Help to aid their users in familiarizing themselves with any product. Multitasking.

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