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Innovative practice

Learning with e's

Boston and his Minecraft Project Boston and his friends were learning using Minecraft on school laptops. Boston''s project involved recreating a Second World War battlefield, complete with bunkers and escape routes. Some of Boston''s friends were re-creating their school in Minecraft, building by building, exactly to scale.

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#3quotes from Bruner

Learning with e's

Photo by Crabchick on Flickr In my #3quotes series I have been citing directly from the texts of education thinkers, because it is important to apply ideas and theories in context. 1973) The Relevance of Education. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 17(2), 89-100. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press. Bruner, J.

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Learner Engagement – Are Games the Answer?

Association eLearning

If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. Most of us in education and training love to learn. But the fact is, learners often take education to fulfill more basic needs. Diet-breaker: Boston Kreme donuts. We seek self-actualization.

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Skillsoft Goes Private

Kapp Notes

SkillSoft (Nasdaq: SKIL) a provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses with a huge catalog of "off-the-shelf" courses in a variety of subjects from IT to business skills announced today that it will no longer be publicly held. The problem?

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

All the information below was obtained from Internet sources and announcements in educational journals. asp January 4-7, 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Education , 7 th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. link] aspx January 14-17, 2009 British Educational Technology Show , London, United Kingdom.

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Thursday’s Trending e-Learning Topic: Conferences

Trivantis

Performance Support Symposium 2014 , September 8 & 9, 2014, Boston, MA. HealthStream’s Summit provides an opportunity to connect with your fellow healthcare executives, educators, training professionals and learning experts from across the country. Ecosystem 2014 , March 19 – 21, 2014, Orlando, FL. May 4 – 7, 2014, Washington, D.C.

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What you see is what you do

Learning with e's

Image from Public Domain Pictures In a previous post , I wrote about the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) and the challenges it faces as a technology for education. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21(2), 91-101. 1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. McFarlane, A.

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