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Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics

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If you have a design background or are fortunate enough to have some artistic skill, you can create your own infographics from scratch. These, obviously, require a great deal of expertise and skill, but when done right, are a stunning way to provide a large amount of information. Here are a few: Visual.ly Get interactive.

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Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Translation

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The unidirectional nature of knowledge transfer has often proved to be an ineffective way to ensure adoption and implementation of research results ( Landry, Lamari and Amara, 2001 )." That's why lobbying organizations such as the Cochrane Collaboration are interested in promoting knowledge translation efforts.

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Personal anticipated information need

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Bates has described the inclination of individuals to carve out a subset of the information world in a personal information collection through the metaphor of farming ( Bates 2001 ). Research by Whittaker and Hirschberg ( 2001 ) that observed people during an office move illustrates this point.

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Towards a Theory of Digital Literacy: Three Scenarios for the Next Steps

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This paper focuses on the discussion of the digital literacy skills that are considered necessary for effective and mindful learning in the emerging digital environments. The first strategy relies on the basic assumption of the current discourse that "digital skills" are indeed nothing but skills.

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A Design Framework for Electronic Cognitive Apprenticeship

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Volume 5, Issue 2 - September 2001. instructional systems that transmits content and skills in a clear, well-structured, and efficient manner" [4, p.347]. learners into authentic practices through activities and social interaction, they are able to develop the cognitive skills of practitioners [5]. ALN Magazine.

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Personal Knowledge Management

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s largest provider of bibliographic databases), estimated that the amount of information - not knowledge and not necessarily unique information - available on the Internet in the year 2001 will be greater than all knowledge in recorded history. s information handling skills. The application of these skills is left to the learner.

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Toward An Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching

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So, people accustomed to mostly passive ways of learning new information not only have to search actively for the information, but also have to master a fair amount of ancillary skills and knowledge just to be able to search for the information, with no guarantee that that effort will actually lead to an answer. The MIT Press, 2001.

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