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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Presentation: Update- SCORM Virtual Environments and Research Presenter: Eric Roberts, ADL Catching up with some work and some conference setup for the Innovations in eLearning conference. Development costs down 5%, Maintenance costs down 85% as a result of standardization Today - stable SCORM 2004. New Learning Architecture - Simulations, games, virtual worlds - Mobile systems - In the dark. In a corner.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004
free Webinar on "Online Usability: How Companies 'Use' Usability in 2004" will take place July 20th at 2 p.m. What emerging technologies are able to help you measure the overall customer experience online
--'Best practices' for bringing usability testing into your own environmen Free Web seminar on usability
Usability is an important concept in Web design and should be something you take into account as you're developing e-learning.
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Monday, August 23, 2004
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs preaches that the iPod is revolutionalizing the way people listen to music and audio books (Newsweek, July 26, 2004). The iPod had become an icon, a status symbol, an important part of one's life. Students will also be able to download faculty-provided content. The gospel of Duke University and Steve Jobs accomplishes three things: It makes it easy for technology to be friendly, cool and hip It will be ubiquitous, becoming a part of our everyday landscape It will make the learning tool portable, self-paced and easy to use Upon closer review, why
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Work-related learning environment preferences differ greatly between countries.
--Mobility "Lifelong Learning: Citizens' Views in Close-up"
This free report is available for download from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).
Cedefop lists these highlights from the report:
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Friday, July 16, 2004
Knowledge@Wharton, a publication of the Wharton School, interviews the authors of a new book that answers such questions as, “How do you make sense of the world in an environment of overwhelming data? Thanks, Amy Gahran.)
“The Ecological Approach to the Design of E-Learning Environments: Purpose-based Capture and Use of Information About Learners.” This fascinating article tells “how the ecological approach shows promise not only to allow information about learners’ actual interactions with learning objects to be naturally captured but also to allow it to be used in a
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments. Goin' fishin'
Okay, I'm not really going to fish, but I am going on vacation. So this week's best of the week (or whatever it might get called in the future) will be postponed and there will be a super-duper one next week. (I
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Friday, November 5, 2004
Dede discusses three types of learning technologies he's researching: "world to the desktop," multi-user virtual environments, and ubiquitous computing.
"Digital Best you might have missed
Here are the articles and resources I collected this week.
Technology
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Flat-panel displays, sub-woofers, and computers running Windows and Linux help create the immersive environment that will be launched in September among a group of Army, Marine, Navy, and Air Force personnel at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (Picky Training via immersion in simulated environments has been shown to increase learning speed and retention, Wired says. The future of workplace simulations
The fascinating article "The War Room" in September's Wired magazine shows the present of military simulations (or the near future) and the future of workplace simulations.
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Friday, May 14, 2004
Guide to Distributed Learning Environments. E-Learning Extravaganza
Here are various e-learning tidbits I've collected this week.
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
The project seems to be quite similar to Movix with the only difference being the eyecandy of the Geexbox environment. Today was a tough day off work!!
Firstly there was a scheduled power cut between 10:30AM to 5:30PM which kept me unwired for the better part of the day. I
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