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Every Thursday evening, 8:30 ET, 5:30 PT, there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat. It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. Topics will range from instructional design, training, education, etc. Begin by typing #lrnchat into the Twitter search box. If you'd like to get a look at who's likely to be there, and how the conversation will go, you can check out the transcripts. This a great way to be part of a discussion on an educational topic and great opportunity to build your network with other eLearning experts in the field...during the chat the live stream of tweets fly fast and furious!

Venneman et al., published in the Eurpean Journal of Social Sciences, evaluated the effect of demonstrations on students with different learning preferences (visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic). After evaluating pre-post demonstration examinations, all groups except auditory learners significantly improved after watching the demonstrations. This study showed that demonstrations does not work on everyone, especially auditory learners.