Conceptual Orienteering is a learning archetype where learners are given activities or situations in which they are presented with examples and non-examples of environmental or situational conditions for the purpose of discrimination and creating an understanding of key concepts. Image courtesy of Randy Hinrichs of 2b3d and author of an upcoming handbook about learning in 3D. This allows the learner to recognize and apply the concept in a variety of different environments. Introduce the learners to the environment or area that illustrates the concept. MORE >>

Empowering Personal Learning Environments View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff This presentation was presented during IMU's seminar entitled ' Transformative E-Learning in Higher Education ' last week. and the other speakers simply couldn't stop sharing their wisdom and experiences in e-learning, so I have no reason to complain (will share their notes, if I get permission later). Those that didn't vote, probably didn't have Internet access (or mobile learning devices), or simply were not bothered to participate. MORE >>

The 21st century corporate learning environment is an ecosystem of services, tools, technologies, and processes that support knowledge workers. Knowledge Workers and Corporate Learning Environments is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning constructivist learning environment corporate learning environment knowledge worker learning curve organizational development organizational learning scaffolded learning MORE >>

Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). My short answer is “yes and no&# – which I will explain – but for the moment please read Anne Marie’s idea for yourself… In the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about how we can support the learning that takes place when medical students are on placement. They generally have a haphazard learning experience. So what can we do? MORE >>

An Avatar in a Virtual Immersive Environment is a rendering of a computer user as an interface technique. Recently, there has been some research released which indicates that moving through a computer generated interface as an avatar provides powerful learning stimulus. In a study, users watched an avatar that looked like them exercising and loosing weight in a virtual environment, the result was that those that watched the avatar of themselves subsequently exercised more and eat more healthy in the real world as compared to a control group. MORE >>