A little delayed, but here are the two videos from the 2012 conference in Singapore. The first one is a panel discussion on how to monetize serious games where I flipped the discussion to “why monetize – what is the value that we are bringing to customers” instead. The next one, is my pitch for standards in Serious Games and Simulations. The key argument is that standards are necessary for the industry as a whole and will bring efficiencies as well as increased customer satisfaction. elearning 2.0 NASSG Simulations serious games simulations standards MORE >>

At the FICCI Higher Education Summit 2011 today. Had an interesting first day yesterday. The highlights for me were the talks by Montek Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Mr Michael Russell, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Prof. David Naylor, President, University of Toronto, Canada and Dr Daniel C Levy, Distinguished Professor, University of Albany and Director, PROPHE. In particular, Prof. Dr Daniel Levy also tabled his research at PROPHE – very interesting analysis of types of HE models across the world. MORE >>

In an interesting article in Forbes India by Joshua Kim titled 3 Reasons why India will lead EdTech in the 21st Century , Joshua argues that the next big thing in Education is going to be India. Josh believes that, firstly , “(T)he reason that the next technology revolution will occur in India is the degree to which the culture prizes learning and scholarship.” ” The statement does not necessarily hold true because merely having a “culture that prizes learning to a degree” is insufficient to predicate that the culture prizes learning through technology. Endgame. MORE >>

Jane Hart , in response to my comment on Manish’s blog post, was wondering what I meant by structured construction and tracking models for teaching-learning in a Learning 2.0 world. guess this is as good a time as any to start throwing some ideas around for discussion. Thanks Jane, for forcing me to think harder! Let us first look at teaching-learning activities and see if we can identify some of the key components of these activities. Goals/ Object of Learning. In any learning activity, the goal is to learn. For this post, I want to focus on the former. Measurement. Improvement. In a 2.0 MORE >>

I have now been going to school events – formal and informal – for about 5 years in my capacity as a parent. My 5 year old and my 10 year old are being programmed to show respect, listen attentively and obey authority by the school system. The way of doing this is to make doing yoga or finger-on-your-lip drills, asking children to repeat words they have heard, prompting them to show appreciation as a group – in the process trying to divert their attention from their immediate neighbours and focussed on what’s hot on the stage or at the blackboard. MORE >>