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Debunking the Myth – There Is No Such Thing As “Learning Styles” « EPPIC – Pursuing Performance
Instructional designers are often urged to adapt instruction to students’ learning styles. The persistence of the learning style concept is amazing—a testament to the gullibility of even well-informed individuals who ought to know better. It seems that advocates of learning styles have never heard of the history of ATI research, which attempted to provide a database for adapting instruction to student characteristics and found many thorny problems. It is probably fair to say that the popularity of adapting instruction to learning styles is matched only by the utter absence of support for this idea.
tags: learning_styles education
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Cammy Bean's Learning Visions: Learning Styles as Fortune Telling
My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. I'm struck by why I find this topic so interesting. As a practical person, I tend to avoid theory. But in my quest for an informal M.Ed, I've got to get into theory a bit, right? Somehow this is an easy starting point. And it's kind of controversial, which makes it fun.
tags: learning_styles education
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Evidence-Based Training: Debunking the Myth of Learning Styles « Workplace Psychology
In her book, Dr. Clark cites a research study (by Kratzig and Arbuthnott) conducted with college students about learning styles. A group of college students were asked to do 3 things: (1) Rate their own learning style as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic; (2) Each student took a learning style test that puts them into the visual, auditory, or kinesthetic category; and (3) Each student was administered three tests to measure visual, auditory, or kinesthetic memory.
tags: learning_styles education
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A practical guide to creating learning videos: part 2 | Onlignment
In part 1, we looked at the various forms that learning videos can take and the ways they can be used, either as a stand-alone solution or as an element in a blend. We move on to the practicalities of getting a video made, starting with what the film and TV industries call pre-production – essentially all those tasks that need to be completed before you press record on the camera. Seeing as we are concentrating on the absolute basics of video production, requiring the minimum of technical expertise and equipment, you might feel that pre-production is a bit of a grand topic to be spending any time on. But even the simplest productions need some planning, as we shall see.
tags: learning video tutorials
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A practical guide to creating learning videos: part 1 | Onlignment
Video is very much the medium of the moment. Not only do we spend many hours each day watching it on our TVs, it has become an integral part of the online experience. An ever-increasing proportion of the population does not only consume video, it creates and shares it with a world-wide internet audience. Whereas once video cameras cost many hundreds, if not tens of thousands of pounds, they are now integrated for no additional cost in computers, stills cameras and mobile phones. And where once video editing could only be carried out by skilled engineers in elaborate editing suites, it can now be accomplished, often with equivalent production values, with free or low cost software on PCs and even mobile devices.
tags: learning video tutorials
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learnstreaming.com — sharing is how we learn
Having a social media account (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin) doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve joined. It means you’ve signed up. It’s like signing up for the gym. You can say that you belong to the gym but if you don’t get on the equipment and exercise, what benefit is there to your body?
tags: learning_styles social_learning education
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Change Magazine - The Myth of Learning Styles
There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist. While we will elaborate on this assertion, it is important to counteract the real harm that may be done by equivocating on the matter. In what follows, we will begin by defining “learning styles”; then we will address the claims made by those who believe that they exist, in the process acknowledging what we consider the valid claims of learning-styles theorists. But in separating the wheat from the pseudoscientific chaff in learning-styles theory, we will make clear that the wheat is contained in other educational approaches as well. A belief in learning styles is not necessary to incorporating useful knowledge about learning into one's teaching. We will then discuss the reasons why learning styles beliefs are so prevalent. Finally, we will offer suggestions about collegiate pedagogy, given that we have no evidence learning styles do not exist.
tags: learning_styles education
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What is Firefox Sync?
"Firefox Sync lets you take all your Firefox data (such as your bookmarks, history, passwords and open tabs) with you wherever you go. You just set up Firefox Sync on your home computer and your Firefox data will be securely stored on our servers and synchronized automatically from then on. Then, when you set up Firefox Sync on your work computer (or even your phone running Firefox), your Firefox data will be automatically synchronized with your home computer. "
tags: firefox extensions
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Reconstructor
"Reconstructor is a toolkit for creating custom versions of the GNU/Linux operating system, specifically Debian and Ubuntu."
tags: linux custom
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QR Code City
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2D Barcodes for Mobile Tagging Marketing/Advertising Campaigns | Microsoft Tag
"Scan Tags from your mobile phone for instant access to information, websites, videos, reviews, and more. Sign in to Tag Manager to create or edit your Tags, manage Categories and view Reports."
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Create! | Semacode
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Semacode
"Semacode technology assembles a number of key pieces to create a seamless system. It uses 2D barcodes composed of dots to store massive amounts of information, i.e. potentially thousands of characters! Semacode’s mobile image recognition software accesses the phone’s camera to capture the barcode image. Custom algorithms are then applied to determine the presence of a barcode. If present, the software will process and convert the pattern into meaningful information. Typically, URLs are obtained and the user is directed to digital media through the phone’s web browser. "
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Mobile Future - SPARQCode
"SPARQCodes can contain any type of mobile content such as websites, phone numbers, contacts, and invoke any app on your mobile phone."
tags: qrcode
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AchronGame.com | Technology
"The Resequence Engine is a flexible game engine that enables multiple players and agents within the game to perform free-form time travel within a time window. It is a stable, high-performance game engine that can be used to create a variety of different game types beyond RTS. The core gameplay mechanisms, in-game scripting, and user interface are all fully customizable."
tags: gaming engine
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Harrisburg University -Get Updates the Virtusphere!
"Step into the Virtusphere, where virtual reality meets real life. Safely traverse a real or imagined 3-D world in micro or macro. Walk through the human nervous system, a battleground, a crime scene, an alien planet, or even a data set. Virtusphere transcends the physical and financial limitations of time, space, and materials. Partner with Harrisburg University on a Virtusphere project, and open up new worlds in training, gaming, and learning."
tags: virtual_reality training gaming learning
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Playing with Reality at the Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"“For many people, fun is the f-word.” When we talk about bringing games or play into the classroom, there can be resistance on that very grounds–are we just just selling chocolate-coated broccoli? Why is there still a cultural trend towards fun and work as opposites that have to be tricked into coexisting?"
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