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Alternate History and Time Travel
What if Harry Turtledove tackled teaching and lecturing? Here is my alternate history and time travel reading list.
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Definitions of Learning
Learning is a complex phenomenon that defies easy definitions. But, hey, that doesn't mean I'm not going to try.
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Communities of Practice
The idea that learning requires a deepening process of participation in a community of practice has gained increased recognition in the recent years. Communities of practice have also become an important area within organizational development.
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Situated Learning
If, as acknowledged in the practice of situated learning, the social and cultural context in which learners finds themselves are integral to the learning process, then three ideas emerge about the learning process.
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Links: Continuing Health Sciences Education
These are the links that support my professional pursuits: teaching methods, knowledge translation, assessment techniques and other issues in continuing health sciences education.
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Learning Organizations
A learning organization is one that continually adapts and learns in order to respond to changes in the environment and to grow successfully.
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Design Patterns, Pattern Language
The common definition for design patterns one that is potentially incomprehensible unless one is already familiar with patterns is that they are solutions to recurring problems that can be used repeatedly in many contexts (Alexander, Ishikawa, & Silverstein, 1977; Guidelines for E-LEN Centres, 2004). However, the solutions are intentionally incomplete. Within their structure, patterns combine [...]
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Really Simple Syndication
RSS (Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary) is a lightweight XML-based format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web.
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eXtensible Markup Language
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C standard for text document markup.
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Visual Literacy