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

Dashe & Thomson

I’m sure you have had the experience of having to remember a phone number for the minute or two it took you to find a pen and paper. Most likely not, though it might depend on how many times you repeated that number in your head the day before while looking for a pen. Brain Rule #5: Repeat to remember. What did you do?

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The Powerful Amazon Feature You Should be Adopting in Your Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

Search for, say, a bicycle helmet and Amazon will tell you that “ Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought ” cycling shorts, cycling shoes, cycling gloves, and every other cycling-related item including chamois cream (don’t ask). Better learner engagement through a more pleasant experience.

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Pick of the Month: July 2012

Jane Hart

Change is always difficult – but just take a look at some of the things our ancestors said about change in their day , in Ballpoint pens…the ruin of education in our country - from Nick Sauers. A police officer asks a man searching for his keys under a streetlight, “Are you sure you lost them here?” asks the police officer.

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Open Source and Free: Mobile Learning Tools, M-Learning Systems, SCORM

eLearning 24-7

Below is a list of various open source and free tools including: m-learning, testing web pages in browsers, mobile learning systems, SCORM and the lame PENS (IMO). I did tweet a few of these sites and if you follow me, you can review my past tweets and locate them or search Google or any other search engine for the sites.

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The Evolving Role of E-Learning in Corporate Training

Learnnovators

In this interesting guest post he penned for TalentLMS, the author CK McKay explains why he thinks e-learning doesn’t work. OUR LEARNINGS: As we came to the end of our search, we had the following learnings as our key ‘take-aways’: As we know, e-learning is / can be a powerful tool if we use it appropriately and play to its strengths.

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Four Industry Announcements

Kapp Notes

I’ve seen something like this before… What makes the eLearning Atlas unique compared to other industry guides is the ability to search for products by specific standards, and the breadth of products represented. For the record- 23 come up for this search today. It’s free- What’s the catch?

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Integrating technology into learning

Learning with e's

Technology, in whatever form, should become just another part of the learning environment, as useful as a table around which students gather for discussion, or flipchart and pens used to brainstorm ideas for a plenary presentation. Is the personal device of use for searching and curating new ideas and knowledge?

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