Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

Level 2: Learning. He says unless one or more of the learning objectives?knowledge, with a post-test to measure learning for the entire program. Case studies, exercises, and simulations can be part of a continuum linking Levels 1, 2, and 3. View all posts by Barbara → ← Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew?

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 14, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? And when you hear him speak, you can tell immediately that the man is fascinated with and passionate about how the brain takes in and organizes information; the essence of learning.

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ID Reflections

MAY 10, 2010

The candidate should understand instructional design theories and models and should effectively apply them to develop eLearning content. You should analyze client requirements, assess learner profiles, and design teaching/learning models that are tailor made for the target audience. Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 16, 2019

The links and resources in this post include collections of research, specific research on retrieval practice, an overview of learning theories, H5P’s new branching scenario option, and a widget for changing the colors in the Storyline modern player. Learning Science and Research. tags: research learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This post includes links on AI tools, games, freelancing, top learning influencers, copyright, and more. AI, Instructional Design, and OER – improving learning I agree with the idea that AI and LLMs will make it much easier to create a first draft of content. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Welcome to the A-Z of Digital Learning, your comprehensive glossary of learning and eLearning terminology. The inclusive practice of removing barriers and making learning content usable and accessible to everyone. The inclusive practice of removing barriers and making learning content usable and accessible to everyone.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2021

One strategy for creating a story for learning is delivering content with two narrators having a conversation. This is the Personalization Principle for multimedia learning theory (Mayer, 2009). The learners are on a parallel path, shadowing your character as he or she learns. In their jobs, who do they learn from?

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Back in May I wrote a post on learning styles , giving a general overview of some of the more commonly mentioned style of today. Naturally, this seemed to cause some angst among some readers who find learning styles to be essentially non-existent. Healthy debate in any industry is always a good thing.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 20, 2014

It seems that whenever there is an article discussing the ways people learn , then it turns into a debate about the existence (or non-existence) of learning styles. Both camps come prepared with their supporting data and studies, but it never really ends-up anywhere. Oh Great, Not Another “How We Learn” Diagram.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

An instructional strategy is an action plan or a method to help people learn. It defines the approach to achieve learning objectives using various learning devices, techniques, resources, and various learning theories. Story-Based Learning – Keep Them Intrigued. Scenario-Based Learning – Get Them Involved.

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LearnUpon

APRIL 25, 2019

Every trainer’s ambition is to make corporate learning as impactful and engaging as possible. Adult Learning Theory, also known as a ndragogy is a concept that has been around for years. It highlights the distinct ways adults best respond to learning and it’s a must-know for any training provider.

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Association eLearning

APRIL 13, 2016

Competency-Based Learning: How to Bridge the Skills-Gap was originally published in the IACET blog as a guest post by Digitec President Jack McGrath. By providing competency-based learning and delivering this through an association.edu model, associations can address the skills-gap, while: – Supplying a skilled workforce to industry.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We’ve written a lot about micro learning and related ideas, but we haven’t talked much about the opposite: macro learning, and the big-picture thinking it entails. Macro learning can encompass a learning theory. Combined, these techniques form a new learning theory around language learning.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So here is the answer to the first question which is, “What are the key advantages of Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations?&#. Since I am working on another project to link game attributes to learning outcomes, I’ve decided to answer the question in the form of a table. Theory and/or Empirical Support.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 30, 2011

For a while I have been stealthy working on a book titled “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction&#. What is gamification and what does that mean to faculty members, college instructors, instructional designers and other learning and development practitioners. The first chapter introduces terminology. What is a game?

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Matrix

APRIL 29, 2021

No amount of studying engines, mechanics, or traffic laws will turn you into a skilled driver. We can also say this about adult learning. Continuing our series about adult learning theories series that instructional designers should know before creating training courses, we’ll explore experiential learning today.

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eFront

JULY 21, 2015

Similarly, research in game studies has generally focused upon approaches based upon playing leisure games, and therefore do not take enough account of factors including the context, learning theory and practice and the attributes of the learner and learner group.” (de Think about the immersion level of the learning context.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 19, 2010

Next week is Spring Break in Florida for the eLearning geek set as we descend on Orlando for the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions Conference & Expo. I've read the book and am primed to discuss ways we can apply these ideas to our work as Learning Designers. We'll share lessons learned and take you on a tour of the program.

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Hurix Digital

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Traditional learning models are often biased toward strong memory retention and fall short of the holistic nature of learning beyond exam success. Experiential learning, a robust learning theory, emerges as a compelling alternative to traditional models. Table of Contents: What is Experiential Learning?

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eLearning Industry

AUGUST 3, 2020

In this case study drawn from Inno-Versity’s work with law enforcement, we describe how the combination of Virtual Reality, game theory, and learning theory works to produce a world-class learning opportunity for frontline officers and others. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Webanywhere

JANUARY 6, 2025

The answer lies in understanding how adult students learn. Enter Adult Learning Theory (otherwise known as andragogy) highlights how adults learn differently from children. While it’s a relatively simple theory, the underpinnings are essential for every corporate trainer to know.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 26, 2022

Plus, this is also an incidental love letter to theory, study and good thinking habits!). Did I really ever make a specific, focused, and direct effort to gain this knowledge (to overtly study) or is this something I assume I have incidentally learned (by exposure, over time etc.)? Did I generate my own?

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Next is to decide how you will start your learning path. SO there has never been a better time to start in the learning and training sector or to start to upskill and eventually move to this sector. A passion for helping others to learn (a must have). Knowledge of how students, employees and adults learn. The ADDIE Model.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 9, 2010

And the echo chamber has been giving learning styles a beating. The theory. VAK is perhaps the most popular model of learning styles used in the corporate sector today: V stands for “Visual&#. These people learn best by seeing. These people learn best by listening. So I ask you: is that beating warranted?

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Ed App

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Active learning theory is one of the most popular buzzwords in the learning and development (L&D) community today. What is active learning? Active learning involves actively engaging with your learners. Create the best active learning environment with EdApp today. What are examples of active learning?

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dVinci Interactive

APRIL 3, 2014

I recently had an exciting opportunity to attend the 2014 Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando. Gamification –My first thought was “learning can’t always be gamified.” Our goal is to create a learning experience, and the key is to know the audience. Adult learning theory tells us to tap into our learner’s lived experiences.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I’ve always thought that you could cover in one good day all the key theories, big ideas, and grand arguments of instructional design. Then the rest is learning to use today’s best tools of the trade to create good stuff. All the appropriate instructional strategies, learning theories and concepts in ONE day. Tom, really?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 25, 2010

It starts as a kid; as Cammy relates, I didn’t grow up thinking I wanted to be a learning designer. I somehow got the job of computer support for the tutoring office, and that’s when a light went on about the possibilities of computers supporting learning. Donald Norman ended up letting me study with him.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Over the last few days I’ve been working through Stephen Downes’ paper Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge. We may contrast cognitivism, which is a causal theory of mind, with connectionism, which is an emergentist theory of mind. I used Diigo to highlight and comment while reading. He performs that function.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Internet is thus the perfect vehicle for explaining the concept of rhizomatic learning. Rhizomatic learning is something that I have been superficially aware of for a while. It seems to me that rhizomatic learning is the pedagogical antithesis of direct instruction. It was even documented in textbooks.

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Association eLearning

MARCH 22, 2017

Some time ago, a colleague of mine wrote a blog called Learning Myths: Debunked , in which he stated that learning styles is a myth. Having obtained a degree in Elementary Education, I was shocked and still skeptical that learning styles was indeed a myth. But how did colleges and countless academic resources get it so wrong?

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 9, 2011

The Innovations in E-Learning Symposium is really a top notch conference, small, intimate but with great attendees and speakers and I really like how both industry old timers (like me) and Ph.D. Why 3D, Games and Simulations Matter for Learning and Collaboration? A study by Ersner-Hershfield et al.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

Of course, it’s such a big topic that I decided to cheat and quickly point the person to eLearning Learning and particular to eLearning Sales , eLearning Sales Metrics , Sales eLearning Case Studies , and Sales Performance Support. In Part 2, I'll list some of the levels within one of the learning types. Illustrate a concept.

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Coreaxis

JULY 25, 2017

Research has shown that people learn better when their learning experience has a social component. This encompasses concepts such as discussion and study groups, the relationship-based discovery and evaluation of learning programs, as well as the use of social networks and badging to broadcast progress.

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