{"id":8,"date":"2012-03-21T03:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T03:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/?p=8"},"modified":"2012-03-21T03:57:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T03:57:21","slug":"greetings-and-a-brief-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/2012\/03\/21\/greetings-and-a-brief-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings and a Brief Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I am Ahmed and I am the founder and principal consultant of Solea Research, a small software consultancy and R&amp;D firm in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. One of our areas of focus is e-learning which is facilitated by our experience in web application development. I personally became interested in learning long ago through personal reflection that was the result of questioning the status quo of the educational system. I started reading about problem-based learning, experiential learning as well as other theories and tools.<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of technology, I believe that the power it brings can be harnessed to improve learning in the digital sphere without ignoring the cognitive processes and the psychological factors that make us human learners.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to getting this group off the ground to foster a discussion that will enrich our understanding of e-learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I am Ahmed and I am the founder and principal consultant of Solea Research, a small software consultancy and R&amp;D firm in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. One of our areas of focus is e-learning which is facilitated by our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/2012\/03\/21\/greetings-and-a-brief-intro\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","tag-introductions-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/learnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}