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		<title>Northern Regional eLearning Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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You are invited to the Northern Regional e-Learning Symposium to find out how e-learning can provide a cost effective way to meet your organisation’s training and education priorities.











This free symposium will present best practice real-world solutions that your organisation can implement. Through a series of presentations, workshops, and case studies facilitated by internationally recognised e-learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=156&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online learning more effective than face to face</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/online-learning-more-effective-than-face-to-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwenmoth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report from GetEducated.com written for the U.S. Department of Education,  has concluded that Online &#38; blended education is more effective than residential method alone.
This conclusion was reached after analyzing research studies undertaken from 1996 to 2008 that address this topic, concluding the following: 

Online education is more effective than face-to-face learning;

Online learning combined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=145&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest e-primer on &#8220;Online Discourse&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/latest-e-primer-on-online-discourse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 05:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekcx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth in the E-Primer series, &#8220;Online discourse&#8221;, is now available from the Ako Aotearoa Website . The fourth E-Primer is available under a Creative Commons license and is both a good practice guide for and a theoretical orientation to online discourse based on peer-reviewed literature. The first three in the series are also available [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=138&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another Journal: IJMBL</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/yet-another-journal-ijmbl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekcx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL) &#8211; An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association &#8212; New in 2009
From the website: &#8220;Technology supported learning has been increasingly used across a broad spectrum of educational contexts, in many cases being integrated with more traditional forms of teaching. As new opportunities have emerged for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=125&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Designs for eLearning</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/new-designs-for-elearning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwenmoth</dc:creator>
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Designing and implementing e-learning, the popular web-based guide to planning and delivering e-learning courses, from the national training system&#8217;s e-learning strategy, Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), has undergone a $30,000 makeover.
The upgrade includes new and emerging e-learning strategies and tools, such as wikis and virtual classrooms, added to the website’s extensive online gallery.
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		<title>Open course: Facilitating Online Communities</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/open-course-facilitating-online-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekcx</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve lifted this from the post by Leigh on the WikiEducator list.  This is quite a remarkable style of course. A NZ based course with an international flavour. &#8211; Derek
Open course: Facilitating Online Communities &#8211; Starts 28 July

That course we ran last year is coming up again. I&#8217;ve tweaked it quite a bit &#8211; free at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=120&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education in a Digital World</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/education-in-a-digital-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwenmoth</dc:creator>
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 Recently published by the Commonwealth of Learning is this edited e-book titled Education for a Digital World &#8211; advice, guidelines and effective practice from around the globe. This 500-page volume contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=119&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Synchronous eLearning</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/tips-for-synchronous-elearning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 23:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwenmoth</dc:creator>
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With a long weekend coming up in New Zealand here&#8217;s a bit of reading that may be of interest to some. The eLearning Guild have released the latest in their series of free e-books, this one titled 144 Tips on Synchronous e-Learning.
As is usual in previous ELG publications, the tips range in length from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=114&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Strategy 2.0 for consultation</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/digital-strategy-20-for-consultation/</link>
		<comments>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/digital-strategy-20-for-consultation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwenmoth</dc:creator>
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The Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 document has been released for public consultation.
Digital Strategy 1.0 was released during 2005.  It was designed as an action plan to maximise ICT opportunities and create a vision of a digital future for New Zealand.
The refreshed Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 builds on input from a series of workshops held in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=105&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Content, Otago Poly and WikiEducator.com</title>
		<link>http://deanz.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/open-content-otago-poly-and-wikieducatorcom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekcx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leigh Blackhall has posted an update on his blog on the developments in their Travel and Tourism courses.  They have an innovative IT policy down there!!
&#8220;Otago Polytechnic has adopted a Creative Commons Attribution copyright license and has been using the Wikieducator platform with other popular media sharing services to develop and publish Open Educational Resources [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanz.wordpress.com&blog=295328&post=98&subd=deanz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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