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Educational Technology

November 27, 2012

Social Learning Tools Every Online Educator Should Know About

The following list of social learning tools are used from online educators for pedagogical and androgogical purposes.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Benefits

November 27, 2012

Extending eLearning To Partners, Vendors, Clients And Beyond

Make no mistake; we are well-ensconced in the age of electronic instruction and digital learning. And we can thank advances in technology and high-speed data networks for much of the training that is now at our fingertips.

by Jeffrey Roth

eLearning Market

November 26, 2012

Use Of Open Source Education In Reducing Teacher Absence In Rural India

According to a study, it is found that 25 percent of public school teachers in rural India, remain absent from their workplace. One of the culprits responsible for this serious situation is the content taught to the students.

by Rajib Chakraborty

Educational Technology

November 25, 2012

Blogs And Education: What Is The Big Deal?

Blogs constitute a digital asynchronous tool, which makes it an environment very suitable for the management of knowledge and that is a reason that blogs are considered to be strong pedagogical tool. Would you be interested to know how to use blogs in education?

by Maria Manolopoulou

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

November 25, 2012

The Best LinkedIn Groups About eLearning

LinkedIn is my favorite social network because the most of its members are acting as professionals! This is why I created a list of the best LinkedIn Groups about eLearning!

by Christopher Pappas

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

November 25, 2012

The 10 Best Facebook Pages About eLearning

The eLearning community is very active on Facebook. Would you be interested to stay connected with the most active eLearning communities at Facebook?

by Christopher Pappas

Instructional Design

November 23, 2012

10 New Released Instructional Design Books

Are you involved in the instructional design field? I am sure that you have used ADDIE. What about SAM? Would you like to broaden your knowledge of the design of training programs? How you will design training and instructional design programs for older adults? What is the relationship between instructional design and online learning?

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

November 23, 2012

List of eLearning Professionals that use Twitter: Part 5

Are you ready for the Part 5 of the list of eLearning professionals that use Twitter?

by Christopher Pappas

Online Courses (MOOC)

November 22, 2012

List Of Free Childhood And Youth Online Courses From The Open University

Are you interested in a List of Free Childhood and Youth Online Courses from The Open University?

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Resources

November 22, 2012

The 10 Best Pinterest Boards About eLearning

Pinterest was not created for being used as an eLearning resource. However, a lot of eLearning professionals use Pinterest to organize and share all the valuable things about eLearning Industry that they found on the web.

by Christopher Pappas

Educational Technology

November 21, 2012

Word Clouds in Education: Turn a toy into a tool

When it comes to finding the deeper meaning in a text passage, a word cloud is a simple application that you might have seen as a cute bit of fluff rather than a useful academic tool.  Most word cloud programs work in the same, straight-forward way; the more a word is used in the text, the bigger it is shown in the cloud.  A glance at a cloud is an easy way to preview a passage, or to analyze text.  So what does this mean for your courses?  

by Joseph Kern

eLearning Infographics

November 20, 2012

10 Awesome Infographics About eLearning

What is eLearning? What it takes to create effective eLearning? How to develop an eLearning Roadmap or what are the milestone in elearning and much more will be covered by the following 10 awesome infographics about eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas