The Michael G Detroiter School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, offers major programs in undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate medical education. The Undergraduate Medical Program for the MD degree has 148 students admitted each year. The thr... More »

Higher Education , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

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Using Web 2.0 tools to make reading and research more effective. It is clear that learning professionals need to look for better ways to take responsibility for our own learning. Here's a look at how we can take advantage of some of the relatively recent Web 2.0 tools t... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Advanced Level Content , Informal Learning , Innovation , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Social Learning , Training and Development - General , Trends

In December 2005, Clark Aldrich began the SimWord of the Day series on the Learning Circuits Blog. According to Aldrich, the purpose of the SimWord entries was to acknowledge that learning practitioners are developing new tools for capturing domain knowledge, as well as... More »

Learning Technologies

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