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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

Hill have come together from all around the world to contribute resources toward creating a system to maintain that accessibility; provide references, virtual collections, and virtual displays; and to provide access to educational programming in spaces like Second Life. Success in Second Life.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting? A Comprehensive Examination of Social Media in Our Learning Programs. Not too long ago, connections were forged outside of technological communications and maintained via sheer will. In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers.

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What Pokémon Go Means to the Learning Industry

Gyrus

As per Merriam-Webster, “Augmented Reality is an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (as a smartphone camera).” So, how can this apply to the corporate learning environment? Augmented Reality. Gamification.

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Educating Medical Personnel: New Book Reviews CPD Topics

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This book will serve the medical education profession as both a healthcare leader’s bookshelf reference and as the quintessential textbook. Each chapter ends with a review of future directions and includes a comprehensive reference section. Technology-heavy articles like Chapter 3 by Dimitrios Stefanidis and Ajit K.

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

Gyrus

This projection is set to grow throughout at least the next two presidential terms, and I for one would like to help educate potential users on all of the great features of which they can be getting out of their learning environments. And what are the technological security features in place? How is it cooled?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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xAPI – What it can mean for your learning Program

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In the Learning and Development industry a very buzzworthy topic is xAPI (xAPI is also known as Tin Can API or the Experience API in case you have heard or read additional posts elsewhere, it will herein be referred to solely as xAPI within this blog post). References. "Tin ” Why is this important? In Conclusion.

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