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Global Giveback 2012: Last Mile Learning Reduces Poverty, Alleviates Suffering

Author: News Editor

Abstract: Global Giveback 2012, the fourth annual eLearning competition led by LINGOs in partnership with The eLearning Guild, will match volunteers from the learning community with NGOs (non-governmental organizations) to develop courses that help improve the work performance of staff working around the globe.

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Beyond the Talking Head: Ensuring Engagement in Synchronous eLearning

Speaker: Christina Griffin

Description: Today we are attempting to teach learners in some of the most distracting environments possible — their offices and their homes. How do we keep online learners engaged despite telephones; emails; IMs; work pressures; interruptions from friends, family, and colleagues; and a long list of other distractions that occur during synchronous virtual training sessions?

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Social Media for Learning

Abstract: In this report, Jane Bozarth, Ed.D., analyzes eLearning Guild research on the latest trends in adoption and usage of social media for learning. Weaving connections between data and individual interviews, Jane also discusses organizational challenges and concerns about social media, and offers suggestions to overcome them.

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Instructional Strategy Based on Cognitive Load Theory

Description: We might have all heard a great deal about working memory and long term memory and their influence on instructional design. It is said that the working memory has limited capacity and can only process a defined amount of information at a given point of time. Cognitive psychologist George Miller says that the working memory can process 7 ± 2 chunks of information at a time. It is wide…

Importance of Content Chunking for Effective eLearning Development

Description: Chunking is a technique course designers use to break information and then reorder the learning modules into chunks that make sense. This plays an important role while creating an eLearning course.When information is made available in small chunks, it enhances the working memory of the learners, helping them to retain it for a longer period.