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Teaching Expert Learners

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Here are some tips for teaching expert learners. As employees and learners gain experience performing tasks and learning information, they develop mental representations known as mental models or a schema. So the question becomes, what is the best method for teaching experts in a certain domain of knowledge?

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Comparison of Novice and Expert And Why Games Can Help.

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Looking through my old “Learning and Instruction:Theory into Practice&# book by Margaret Gredler, written in 1997, I came across an interesting comparison of novice vs. expert thinking (page 188). Knowledge structures of experts represent phenomena in the domain in relation to higher-order principles. What this means?

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Keynote Resources from Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference

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One answer is to create a documentary where the learner can watch a situation, see how an expert reacts and then listen to the expert debrief the situation at certain keep points. Doing in a virtual world is often less threatening to the expert than “live” video. This creates motivation and helps with retention.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

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Collaborative sharing and commenting on information. Clarification/definitions of terms, tips and techniques, posting list of valuable resources, listing of internal experts, insights from experienced individuals and list of dos and don’ts within the organization. Sharing information, interests and areas of focus.

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Principles for Creating a Successful Virtual Reality Learning Experience

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An ideal Virtual Reality (VR) learning experience should be designed to create engaging interactions that help the learner assimilate new information, ideas and concepts resulting in the acquisition of new skills transferable skills. Visit www.karlkapp.com for more information on gamification and learning. Introduction.

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Resources from ATD Presentation in Wisconsin

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Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Teaching Expert Learners. Gamification Happenings. Facebook Page on Gamification of Learning and Instruction. Facebook Gamification Page. Polling Software. Poll EveryWhere. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue.

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Video:Bringing Mobile Phone Development to the classroom

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The ICT Center Community of Practice supplies educators with the classroom content and information they need to educate technicians by making the knowledge of subject-matter experts readily accessible to industry and academia in a variety of formats. The content available on the site can now be accessed from anywhere!

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