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Here’s a roundup of twelve articles about technology, teaching, and eLearning to kick off the New Year!

1. Learning Solutions Magazine has some interesting thoughts on learning contexts, disruptive technologies to use in eLearning, and other new ideas on the future of eLearning.
2. Learning Solutions Magazine has another article with some very interesting book suggestions that deal with learning, the human brain, and interpersonal relationships.
3. ReadWriteWeb has an article on the Boston Globe’s new premium site.  The article is a little more on the technical side, but it showcases a very important trend for the future: creating flexible sites (including eLearning) that cope well with a wide variety of devices.
4. ConnectYard is a very thought-provoking technology.  It just cries out to be translated into other contexts like email between employees, online newsletters, even blog reading feeds could from this kind of medium-agnostic approach.
5. Voice-control features got a big boost last year when Apple’s Siri made a media splash; there are a few alternatives.
6. Articulate has some thoughts on writing meaningful and engaging objectives screens for eLearning.
7. Personalization in eLearning is something of which I’m sure we’d all like to see more.
8. Simple Help lives up to its name; almost every post on the page is a simple “how to” of some task that isn’t immediately obvious on mobile devices, popular websites, or desktop software.
9. Forecasts of eLearning trends that we might see this year.  They sound pretty reasonable although I can’t really speak to Forecast #2 - Talent Management isn’t something I deal with very often.
10. Effective Online Teaching talks about the “F-shaped pattern” where people tend to read the first line or two and then briefly scan down the left side of the page to get the gist of a page.
11. dashe.com talks about inverting the traditional classroom lecture model by having students watch a video lecture as homework, then using classroom time to address questions.  It’s an interesting idea, but it’s a little dangerous - I would have been very unhappy in high school if I’d had seven hours of lectures (one hour per class) as homework in the evenings.
12. American RadioWorks has another story on turning around the common lecture-oriented course format.  The bits about cooperative learning are especially thought-provoking.

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