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As discussed in yesterday’s post, here are my Top 25 blogs for 2008. Hopefully there’s enough detail, laid out in a usable fashion, to encourage you to try out a few of the links.

Blog Name

Author

Description

Brain Rules

John Medina

12 Principles for Surviving at Work, Home, and School

Centre for [...]

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Here are my Top 25 blogs for 2008. Hopefully there’s enough detail, laid out in a usable fashion, to encourage you to try out a few of the links.

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Earlier this week, I posted on the topic of the EduBlogs’ nominations for 2008. I indicated my surprise at the lack of the blogs that I would consider to be deserving nominees for the awards. Brandon Hall’s Gary Woodill took the time to comment on my post, and rightly highlighted that I had perhaps been [...]

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the development of an informationally sound content framework should have been a consideration for the authors, to enable them to create an environment conducive to the requirements of voters. At the same time, the content model must make effective use of available technologies, with the express purpose of countering the effects of cognitive overload (there is an imbalance of text to other media types).

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So anyway I opened my Google Reader this morning only to find that there’s plenty of what the intelligence community call ‘chatter’ – apparently there’s doin’s-a-transpiring about the EduBlogs Awards.
Some of my favourite bloggers, Doug Johnson (Blue Skunk Blog), Tony Karrer (eLearning Technology) and Stephen Downes (Stephen’s Web) are discussing the EduBlogs Awards – [...]

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[Edited 8th December 2008 - see Gary Woodill's comment below]
So anyway I opened my Google Reader this morning only to find that there’s plenty of what the intelligence community call ‘chatter’ – apparently there’s doin’s-a-transpiring about the EduBlogs Awards.
Some of my favourite bloggers, Doug Johnson (Blue Skunk Blog), Tony Karrer (eLearning Technology) and Stephen [...]

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As discussed in a previous post, Driscoll (1994) outlines five conditions for learning (p.382-3). Very much like the multiple approaches and interpretations that exist in constructivism, a number of conditions must be met for the approach to be implemented. The conditions are:

Providing complex learning environments that incorporate authentic activity. Constructivists argue that learners should learn [...]

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As discussed in a previous post, Driscoll (1994) outlines five conditions for learning (p.382-3). Very much like the multiple approaches and interpretations that exist in constructivism, a number of conditions must be met for the approach to be implemented. The conditions are:

Providing complex learning environments that incorporate authentic activity. Constructivists argue that learners should learn [...]

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A short post today: this month’s LCBBQ is "What did you learn about learning in 2008?"
By a coincidence, I covered this query in my November post "A Year in E-Learning: One Blog’s Progress"
It’s definitely worthwhile heading over the the Learning Circuits Blog to check out what the other contributors have to say. [...]

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Chris Argyris, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has made significant contributions to the development of organizational learning theory and experiential learning.

Any company that aspires to succeed in the tougher business environment …must first resolve a basic dilemma: success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn. What’s more, those members of the organization that many assume to be the best at learning are, in fact, not very good at it.

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