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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

Some examples of learning objects include Microsoft® Word or PowerPoint files, PDF files, video, and audio. Pedagogy- The art or practice of teaching. A learning object can be thought of as a small, self-contained re-usable unit of content that can be used to support learning.

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Pandemic pedagogy

Learning with e's

Microsoft have created a repository of learning and teaching resources for parents who are home schooling primary and middle school children. Pandemic pedagogy by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Keep well, keep safe, keep your distance.

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Higher-education Myths

Clark Quinn

like Apple & Microsoft did offering huge discounts to schools, to get new users used to their experience.). Still, universities should be better at rejecting myths, just as they should also be better about using the best pedagogies. This includes MBTI, which isdiscredited both theoretically and empirically.

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Everything big started small

E-Learning Provocateur

Other high profile examples I can think of include Dell , which stemmed from its eponymous founder building computers in his dorm room, and of course Microsoft , which stemmed from Bill Gates and Paul Allen developing a BASIC interpreter for a microcomputer. BJ’s point is that as small offerings succeed, they can expand.

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Announcing Coursera’s 2024 Outstanding Partner Achievement Award Winners

Coursera

Innovation Award This award recognizes the course team that has done the most to advance online pedagogy through unique, creative, and cutting-edge content. Winner: HRCI for their “ Talent Acquisition ” course Highlights: 4.79/5

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How Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Can Make Your Online Courses Better

CourseArc

A 2015 study by Microsoft shows that the current average attention span of humans is only 8 seconds, compared to 12 seconds in 2000. An authoring tool like CourseArc will help you include Gagné’s Nine Events in your online course design, because our tools were built with these types of pedagogy principles in mind.

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Feel the burn

Learning with e's

The second day of the EDEN Dublin Conference saw keynote speeches from Paul Kim (Chief Technology Office at Standford University), Clare Dillon (Microsoft Ireland) and Graham Attwell (Director of the Welsh research agency Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning).