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Entries Tagged as 'social impact of e-learning'

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: April Update

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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Tags: content development · credit crunch · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

Do Generation Xers learn differently to Boomers and the Internet Generation?

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments

A colleague asked me recently “do you take somebody’s age into account when designing and delivering training for them?”
As a learning professional in the IT industry, it’s my job to provide learning resources for the employees in my organization. Broadly speaking, my colleagues were born between 1965 and 1982 - the so-called Generation X cohort, [...]

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Tags: Social Constructivism · educational media · experiential learning theory · modes of learning · social impact of e-learning · social learning · social networks

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

Recession and the challenge to e-learning

February 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments

A colleague in an area of business other than the learning industry asked me a few days ago; “Do you think that e-learning will survive a recession?”
My initial response to her was “there’s no recession… yet!” Later, I reflected on the implications of the current economic slowdown (whether or not it turns into a recession) [...]

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Tags: content development · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning