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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

Wikipedia has a page devoted to the role of a BA and there are umpteenth other websites that define the role too. E.g., a training program requiring a learner to problem-solve lends itself to the Constructivist Approach like the use of scenarios/case studies. What does an ID do that a Business Analyst (BA) cannot do?

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eLearning Glossary Part 2: More Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

In the first phase, analysis, the problem is defined, the learning goals are established, and the learners preexisting skills are identified. ADDIE- The ADDIE model is a process used by instructional designers and training developers offering guidelines for creating effective training.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

API- Taken from Wikipedia “an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software and applications.” In short, Andragogy is another way to say adult education. This word means the methods and practice of teaching adult learners.

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How Wikipedia Works and Wikis in the Enterprise - HBS

Tony Karrer

Great article - How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) that looks at Andrew McAfee's experiences around the " Enterprise 2.0 " article and Wikipedia 's Articles for Deletion process. It's an interesting discussion of the net impact of Wikipedia's process - which can be frustrating, especially to casual users.

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Use Crowdsourcing to Improve Products, Design New Products, or Solve Problems

Raptivity

It''s a proven fact that two people working together have a better chance of solving a problem than someone working alone. But what if you could ask a crowd of people to work together to solve a problem? There are many companies using crowdsourcing today to improve products, design new products, or solve problems.

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Wikipedia: A Marxist perspective

Learning with e's

Most people by now know that Wikipedia is the world''s largest encyclopaedia. This is largely because literally anyone can freely create pages and edit its content, and the architecture of Wikipedia is such that no content can ever be truly lost, because the previous version of any page can be rolled back if required.

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Five Ways to Use an LMS for Effective Learning Measurement

Upside Learning

I couldn’t find it on Wikipedia and Google didn’t help much either. Wikipedia kept prompting me to go for learning management instead. It was perhaps my first experience where Wikipedia or Google didn’t open the right door for me. Learning measurement, it looks like, is not an easy term to define.

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