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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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If we separate the human aspect of social networking from the technology, we can learn a lot more about the power of networks – not just from today’s pundits, but from many years of sociological research on the topic. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. | Social Learning Blog

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Medina is a developmental molecular biologist, research consultant, and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. As Dr. Medina showed us with some exciting research, repetition is one of the keys to converting short-term memories into longer term ones. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff!

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. We understand that social media, and at a higher level social learning, are crucial to course design moving forward. And contrary to my statement in the third paragraph, hopefully we’re not too far off. Properly d.

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Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? | Social Learning Blog

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My learning style is visual, so I always need to do research about a new concept and get a picture of the information in my head. It allowed the students to interact with the works of art in their own way. But now I wanted to find out more about Accelerated Learning. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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The Great Survey Completion Rate Dilemma Solved (Maybe) | Social.

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So, while SurveyMonkey’s research is interesting, it still doesn’t tell us conclusively what the effect is of over-questioning your clients. It doesn’t take into account the number of people who just deleted the survey from their inbox without ever even starting, and that has always been the real problem. My vote to solve this problem?

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The Great Survey Completion Rate Dilemma Solved (Maybe)

Dashe & Thomson

So, while SurveyMonkey’s research is interesting, it still doesn’t tell us conclusively what the effect is of over-questioning your clients. It doesn’t take into account the number of people who just deleted the survey from their inbox without ever even starting, and that has always been the real problem. My vote to solve this problem?