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Designing SOPs for Learners
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Designing SOPs for Learners

Are you writing SOPs your staff can understand? This poster, presented at the AABB 2007 conference, offers evidence-based principles for designing standard operating procedures that support learning.

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Definitions of Learning
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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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engaging with online learning
Introducing the Book

What happens when you are a monk used to transcribing scrolls and you are faced with the new technology called “book”? Well, you call the help desk.

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engaging with online learning
The Audiocast Diaries

Government regulation of the radio industry heavily turned it into a one-way medium, controlling content, and limiting frequencies and ownership. Maybe this new technology [a convergence of podcasting, radio and mobile phones], which allows two-way communications, will change radio back to its origins of a two-way medium, as it was in Marconi’s day.

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locating information and resources
The Changing Face of Workplace Learning

The future of workplace learning is mobile, and distributed mobile at that.

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engaging with online learning
Being an Unperson

“There is no such thing as a true unperson. An unperson is a ghost, a prejudice in people’s minds.” A beautiful and terrifying video of how we let people know they don’t matter by someone who clearly does.

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networking
You don’t have to read a book to talk wisely about it

Distinguished professor of literature Pierre Bayard explains how to appear extremely well-read without turning a page.

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evaluating the quality of digital resources
Shrinkwrap Licenses

Shrinkwrap and clickwrap agreements start with the phrase “READ CAREFULLY.” If you actually did this, you would discover these “agreements” make a mockery of the law and of the very idea of forming agreements.

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Tech Notes

Style Author Comments with WordPress Sandbox Theme

Sandbox theme for WordPress makes it easy to style author comments without the need for plugins or template modifications.

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networking
Al Gore’s Foot Soldiers

Want to really send a message? Make a movie and train dozens to disseminate its message a la former US Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

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