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Today is Digital eLearning Day, a national promotional effort by the Alliance for Excellence in Education to call attention to using technology in schools. More than 10,000 teachers and 1.5 million students have signed up in support to “celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen teaching and personalize learning for all students,” according [...]

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The New York Times has been covering technology’s role in education since the paper first began publishing — from an 1872 editorial questioning whether to teach science or the classics to boys of “ordinary abilities,” (PDF) to Sputnik-era pieces demanding more technical education for American schoolchildren (PDF) to today, when you can hardly open, or [...]

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The Diffusion Simulation Game  is a game developed by Indiana University in which players explore strategies that result in the adoption of innovation in a fictitious junior high. The goal is to get stakeholders (the school principal, teachers, and support staff) to adopt  peer tutoring. As a player, you can decide whether to gather information, talk to [...]

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Piers Lea, CEO, discusses the current and 2012 landscape for mobile learning.It is nearly two years since I gave the opinion, on this blog, that it was time for organisations to embrace mobile learning. Now in 2012, demand for mobile services is growing, not just for learning, but throughout the enterprise. A survey we conducted [...]

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by AJ George I recently attended an Edward Tufte course on “Presenting Data and Information.” If you are unsure of who Edward Tufte is, I would suggest checking out his Wikipedia page. Here are some of the top tips I took away from the course: Stop Assuming Your Audience is Dumb Have you noticed that PowerPoint presentations and [...]

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This is the second in a series of three posts on developing an e-learning plan. The first post discussed why an e-learning plan may be needed, this will discuss how to do a plan, and the third post will discuss what should be in a plan. The importance of context This is the most difficult [...]

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If you are an eLearning developer, you’ve probably encountered this question before: Should I use photos or clipart in my eLearning course? If your organization has style guides, this might hold the answer to the question for you. Certain companies ban clipart from being used in their corporate PowerPoints and eLearning courses. They only allow [...]

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We work hard and fight for better, richer, more meaningful elearning. We continue to look for new ways to be better designers, yet we always feel like we don’t have the time or the skills to break free of the status quo. No matter what direction the world of elearning goes, we can still explore [...]

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by SteveFoerster While there are a lot of different opinions about eLearning, one thing no one can dispute is that it’s growing by leaps and bounds among American colleges and universities. Various studies have shown that the number of students going online has skyrocketed, particularly in subjects of interest to professionals. As a recent article in [...]