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Is ROI Input, Process Or Output?

It seems that online and off line conversations are consumed with measuring the ROI from social media. Much of the dialog is a waste of time and focused o… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on November 5, 2009 at 3:22am — No Comments

Various Ways of Engaging Students

In my earlier blog titled ‘Is Blended Learning the Future of Educational Scenario?’ I had mentioned that instruction offered through blended mode enhances learning. It is not enough that technology is utilized for offering instruction. The instruction must be designed in such a manner that enhances recall, application and retention of knowledge that has been imparted. ....... For details, please visit the URL http://bit.ly/381LnD and share your views. Continue

Added by Dr.Kumuda Gururao on October 29, 2009 at 4:13am — No Comments

Moodle is now certified SCORM 1.2 compliant

Article on the e-learning curve blog: http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/moodle-is-now-certified-scorm-1-2-compliant/2009/10/23/ with some nice information about SCORM. Continue

Added by Tanja Udelhofen on October 24, 2009 at 2:55am — No Comments

Social Media n Learning

Let me first explain what ‘Social Media’ is and then explore the possibilities of using them for enhancing learning. Social Media represents the online tools that enable anyone to interact in one-one, one-many and many-many conversational format deviating from typical one-way broadcasting options offered by media. The real-time, borderless interaction offered to participants provide an opportunity to make use of 3Cs Collaboration, Community, Communication effectively to enhance learning and pav… Continue

Added by Dr.Kumuda Gururao on October 15, 2009 at 8:03am — No Comments

mobile learning

please, visit this excellent website for mobile learning !!! www.abjade.com Continue

Added by Ammar Alshami on October 12, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Student Learning Skills - Introduction and Time Management

Student Learning Skills - Introduction and Time Management by James Harrison

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Added by Mark Cruthers on October 10, 2009 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Free eBook: Social Network Marketing, 12 Steps for Success

I got this one from a friend last night and read it cover to cover. This should help us all get to the next level in regards to marketing on social networks and social media. You can download it here: http://tinyurl.com/ybbbdo9

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Added by Ava Green on October 9, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

HR Departments Embrace Social Media in Training

I am seeing more and more HR departments implement Web 2.0 technologies to deliver and interactively discuss HR issues. These sites often include discussions about benefits like medical and Dental insurance, Short term insurance, 401K options, vision care, vacation, and more. Employees can engage HR, ask questions,… Continue

Added by LincolnB on October 8, 2009 at 1:29pm — No Comments

Boost Revenue Affordably with “Real-Time” Collaborative Sales University

Traditional sales orientation for new and experienced representatives provide your revenue producers with periodic “core dumps” of key messaging, market positioning and updated best practices to effectively sell to customers. The time between these meetings is focused on managing the progression of tactical activities to attain revenue projections. The sales management processes center on the execution of potentially flawed, misaligned or sub-optimized activities that extend the time required to… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on October 5, 2009 at 8:13am — No Comments

Role of Organic Twitter Optimization in Determining Twitter Grades

Let me first introduce the factors that play an important role in determining Twitter Grades (TG). They are: • Power • Reach • Authority of a twitter account Or in other words, TG determines the quality of tweets sent by you and the influence of them upon others. The following factors play a crucial role as Twitter Algorithm takes note of these things; • Follower / Following ratio – The greater the value better it will be for Twitter Grades (TG). • Power of Followers – If more people with hi… Continue

Added by Dr.Kumuda Gururao on October 5, 2009 at 5:31am — No Comments

So...What's Your Learning Style?

Reprinted from Photogenec Design's Blog at www.photogenecblog.com We’ve all heard stories about high school dropouts who become multi-millionaires. What’s up with that? Well, Learning Styles are probably ‘what’s up with that’. Drop-out millionaires most likely did not have patience or simply could not cope with the types of learning styles offered them in school. Experts usually agree there are three styles: [1] Listening [2] Seeing [… Continue

Added by Gene Rosen on October 3, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Free Ebook on Social Networking and Leveraging Social Media

I ran across this free ebook yesterday on social networking and was very impressed by what I learned. The sections on Facebook and Twitter were by far the best. Here is the location where you can download it from: http://tinyurl.com/ya2xyqo

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Added by Ava Green on October 2, 2009 at 9:34am — No Comments

Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies

Thanks to Donald Clark for sifting through the report and pulling out the salient points!!! Fascinating report from the US Department of Education: First: top quality advisors, people like Richard Clark and Dexter Fletcher, who know research methodologies. Second: scope, going from 1996 to 2008. Third: rigorous, clearly identifying measurable effects, random assignment, the existence of controls and ignoring teacher perceptions. Interestingly they lambasted educational research for its lack… Continue

Added by Paul Harris on September 30, 2009 at 11:54am — No Comments

You Proposed a Corporate University: “Are You Nuts?”

Here is a quick story for you. A mid-market human resource executive schedules an agenda item for the next month’s senior management and board meeting. The proposal is to create a Corporate University to address meeting the company’s performance objectives. The initial reactions to this agenda item from the CEO, CFO and COO ranged from “are you nuts?”… “in today’s economic climate”…. ”expensive”….”limited appeal and utility”…. “no short-term benefits”….. to ”looks like it’s time to look for new… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 29, 2009 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Social Media Marketing 4 Business Owners

Before stressing the importance of Social Media Marketing (SMM), let me just explain in a simple manner, what Social Media actually is, and later on try to explain the SMM. Social Media represents the online tools that enable you to interact in one-one, one-many and many-many conversational format deviating from usual one-way broadcasting options offered by media. The real-time, borderless interaction offered to participants provide an opportunity to establish a brand for individual / company.… Continue

Added by Dr.Kumuda Gururao on September 29, 2009 at 10:53am — No Comments

How to Get Free Email Mail Marketing that Converts Like Crazy

First... Set Up a Free Account With a Company that is White Listed... There are many email marketing companies that offer free campaigns, but two stand alone as the best. 1) iContact - Included in their free package is a 31 page white paper that will make even the most novice marketer an email pro. They have a fully integrated survey sytem along with email scheduling capabilities. iContact also has the best selection… Continue

Added by Ava Green on September 22, 2009 at 9:34am — No Comments

Does eLearning need to have a ROI that’s more than just money?

The Adobe Captivate Blog earlier this month reported on a Higher Ed blog - http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ “Around 70% of faculty believe that the learning outcomes of online learning are inferior to F2F.” This got me thinking about business eLearning - I have seen all sorts of content classified as eLearning and as an educator I have to ask – Is it important to have learning outcomes associated with eLearning for it to be “Learning”? Behavior changes, should we expect this to be a part o… Continue

Added by Jodi Harrison on September 18, 2009 at 8:16am — 2 Comments

Are Non-verbal Cues all that important?

Last week the Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com - Mark Bauerlein) had an article about Gen Y not being able to "read" each other. Which got me thinking "Is non-verbal communication" all that important? Is the sound of a person voice or the smile on their face needed? Nielsen Mobile reported late last year that teenagers on average sent and received 2,272 texts per month. A year earlier the National School Boards Association estimated that middle and high school students devoted an average of 9 ho… Continue

Added by Jodi Harrison on September 9, 2009 at 2:14pm — No Comments