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Facilitating Technology Change

As we approach the end of our Current Trends and Issues in Instructional Technology course, the final project has me thinking. So many of these trends require supporting an organization or, in the very least, a group of people in adopting a change that involves technology. Whether it involves digital storytelling vs a traditional paper [...]

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More from Mayer – The Coherence Principle

~Some simplified notes from Richard E. Mayer’s Multimedia Learning (2001)~
Coherence Principle 1: Student learning is hurt when interesting but irrelevant words and pictures are added to a multimedia presentation.

Coherence: structural relations among elements in a message, such as the cause-and-effect chain in our explanations.
Coherence effect: occurs when students better understand an explanation from a multimedia [...]

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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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