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Create a personal learning environment with Symbaloo
Symbaloo is a visual, social bookmarking tool that makes it easy to access your personal knowledge management tools. The technology (or what are my powers) The Symbaloo interface When you register to...
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Distributed Cognition: Supporting the Knowledge Ecosystem
Distributed cognition is a theory that seeks to model how social and technological influences intersect and influence cognition (Hutchins, 1995). According to this theory, an individual’s knowledge is...
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The ICARE model and course design
Recently, I used the ICARE model (Hoffman & Ritchie, 1998) to put together Web pages for a course. ICARE is a way of organizing course content, so it’s useful to consider it after you’ve...
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A taxonomy of motivation and game design
Although I know many passionate and skillful teachers, I have to say that much of what I learned as a child, I learned in spite of school, not because of it, so this quote resonated a bit with me: The...
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The TIM model of coaching: experiences, connections, and engagement
In an increasingly online world, we still need coaches, a humanizing force, to remind us of the big picture and to help us be successful. In 1994, Strayer and Rossett articulated the TIM model, a...
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Free-range vs Facilitated Discussions
If you’ve taken online classes, you’ve probably had different experiences with discussion forums. Some are incredibly engaging and rewarding and other just fall flat. Good discussion questions Good...
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On SMEs, learner stories, and learner ergonomics
Instructional design is learner-centered design and yet ID processes can quickly get away from a consideration of learners’ needs. The care and feeding of SMEs Subject matter experts, or SMEs, are a...
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On Learning Objects
A learning object (LO) is ” “a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective” (Cisco Systems, 1999). When people talk of...
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