First blog

Colors play a major role in manipulating a persons mood. Because I am creating a e-learning system for DOCS here are the colors I would chose:
-         Culture of the organization- a medium blue (I believe this represents a professional versatile atmosphere that is relaxed)
-         Corporate Colours- These would be the darker tones i.e black, silver, [...]

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During the group presentation assessments each group had to present in front of the class and explain the designated technology that was assigned to them. The webinar group stood out the most to me and I still remember clearly the class on that day. The group gave an example of a webinar during their presentation, [...]

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Podcasting
Hyperlink: http://www.gia.edu/education/35413/continuing_education_landing_page.cfm_

By Piyare Sert

Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is a non profit organisation, which is the largest institute for gemological research and learning. The organisation is well known for the professional service of diamond grading. GIA invest money to keep the learners within the organization up to date with all information they need to know [...]

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Mayer and Moreno (2003) define multimedia learning as ‘learning from words and pictures’, and also go further to define multimedia instruction as ‘presenting words and pictures that are intended to foster learning’ ( Mayer & Moreno, 2003, para. 1). The text concentrates on issues raised when there is too much multimedia and learning based material [...]

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With technology changing so rapidly it seems a little confusing for me to pin point a direct definition to multimedia. To my understanding multimedia is a digitally enhanced technology which incorporates: text, graphics, images and sound. A good example that I can provide is second life. This website depends highly on multi media productions to [...]

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The constructivist theory is based on Bruner (1966). Bruner (1966) states that his theory is based on discovery, and that through construtive learning the discovery and meaningful experience assist in the transfer of learning. Bruners main goal is to build on existing knowledge.
It has been mentioned that certain aspects need to be present within the [...]

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