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Informal learning accounts for over 75% of the learning taking place in organizations today.[1] Often, the most valuable learning takes place serendipitously, by random chance. Most companies, however, focus only on formal learning programs, losing valuable opportunities and outcomes. To truly understand the learning in your organization you might want to recognize the informal learning already taking place and put in practices to cultivate and capture more of what people learn. This includes strategies for improving learning opportunities for everyone and tactics for managing and sharing what you know.
This introduction is dedicated to reviewing the informal learning literature, understanding the issues, and pointing you to additional resources.

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Research shows us that each learning style uses different parts of the brain. By involving more of the brain during learning, we remember more of what we learn. Researchers using brain-imaging technologies have been able to find out the key areas of the brain responsible for each learning style. For example:

Visual. The occipital lobes at the back of the brain manage the visual sense. Both the occipital and parietal lobes manage spatial orientation.
Aural. The temporal lobes handle aural content. The right temporal lobe is especially important for music.
Verbal. The temporal and frontal lobes, especially two specialized areas called Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas (in the left hemisphere of these two lobes).
Physical. The cerebellum and the motor cortex (at the back of the frontal lobe) handle much of our physical movement.
Logical. The parietal lobes, especially the left side, drive our logical thinking.
Social. The frontal and temporal lobes handle much of our social activities. The limbic system (not shown apart from the hippocampus) also influences both the social and solitary styles. The limbic system has a lot to do with emotions, moods and aggression.
Solitary. The frontal and parietal lobes, and the limbic system, are also active with this style.

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Honey & Mumford's Learning Styles model
Each of us learns in different ways. Some of us prefer to study in depth before we tackle a task; others prefer to "get stuck into the job" and learn as we go along. Some of us are satisfied when the methods we use get the job done; others are more concerned with why a particular approach proved successful. Yet others spend time thinking through how the task could be tackled more effectively next time. Research by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford suggests that we might usefully consider 4 basic "learning styles":

Activist - Pragmatist - Theorist - Reflector.

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copyright information for educational institutions (including schools, universities, colleges, TAFEs, training organisations), teachers and academics.

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The Parade of Games web site was created to provide educators and trainers with easy-to- assemble educational games in a technology- enhanced environment to support key learning points. The site demonstrates the creative use of popular game shows and other familiar games to reinforce learning.

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A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.

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Free and Open Source Software Tools for Students
With the widespread use of the Internet and the growth of web-based applications, there are also a lot of hybrid forms of software available – free software with APIs (Application Programmer Interfaces) but not truly open source. The following list covers some of the best free and open source software from an average student’s perspective. (The list is arranged by software category, with recommended applications and the occasional short list of alternative or supplemental apps.)

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One of the most crucial ways that you, as a journalism student, can become a better writer, reporter, editor or broadcaster is to read as much news as you possibly can.

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Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class.

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A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem?
University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!
75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!

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Browse Resources, and Free content selected by the eLearning Learning community.

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SortFix - Unique way of searching online. SortFix makes Google and Yahoo search easy and fun and also improves the results. Allows users to drag keywords to and from the search terms. Great for your visual learners.

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Timeline is an interactive tool that invites students to generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure.

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ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.

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web-based timeline software for creating and sharing history and project planning

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TimeRime.com is a website that allows visitors to create free timelines. These timelines can also be viewed or compared online.

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These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here. You might also want to take a look at my Diigo or Delicious accounts for more links.

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Videos explaining about technolgy like social bookmarking, RSS,....They're short and simple. They use paper cut-outs. They cover subjects "in Plain English." But lurking under the simple surface are lessons that have been crafted with great care.

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Education videos Blogs Computer Hardware Software Sharing Phishing RSS Social Bookmarking

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"Many teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy and Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in developing and structuring teaching and learning experiences for their students. Bloom's Digital taxonomy is an attempt to marry Bloom and the key action verbs to digital approaches and tools. This page looks at some specific examples of tools (This is mainly PC based) and attempts to match them to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy"

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