eLearning is a human performance improvement initiative that employs electronic technology. By that definition, consulting an Internet-based dictionary to find out the meaning of a word is a form of eLearning. Indeed learning is occurring, therefore improving performance by the means of an electronic technology. Though it is incidental and informal, it falls within the [...]
Continue Reading →I presented on the subject of Virtual Communities of Practice: Enabling Peer-based Distance Learning at the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Virtual communities of practice are environments in which individuals with similar interests can learn from one another at a distance. Learners in this case [...]
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Kristina Schneider is organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management. 
Her book Edublogging: a qualitative study of training and development bloggers investigates the value of edublogging as a form of self-directed learning and its potential contribution to communities of practice.
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