Motivation for eLearners

I came across some great articles when doing research for my Leadership Report. I was particularly interested in the articles that specified methods for successful eLearning strategies.  Here are some very basic summaries and the articles I found them in:
Form A Successful Strategy

How do the external forces relate to e-learning?
An internal strategy
Aligning the internal e-learning [...]

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Phases to Online Participation

I came across this article today which discusses the phases a participant goes through in online participation. I was interested in this article because I am attempting to research how a learning community naturally thrives in a blog format.
Based on the article, I believe a great deal of the growth and development in a single [...]

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Can Blogs Support a Learning Community?

Collin’s blog got me thinking about blogs, social presence, community and learning. Can you build a learning community with blogs? I went to the article that Christine Thornam directed me to and which happens also to have been authored by our instructor, Brent Wilson. It is titled Bounded Community: Designing and Facilitating Learning Communities in [...]

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