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Alternatives to Second Life (continued, again)

Kapp Notes

Here is a companion post to two previous posts on the topic: Alternatives to Second Life Alternatives to Second Life Continued If you know of more, please feel free to add in the comments section. web.alive Short "flyby" of Nortel's web.alive. This is Nortel's entry into the 3D space.

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Second Life again

Learning with e's

Found an interesting article about Second Life and other MMORPGs and their use for learning today. This paper reports findings from two MMO-based courses in the context of situated learning theory. The second course used the game Second Life to teach the fundamentals of video-game design and criticism.

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Daily Bookmarks 05/28/2008

Experiencing eLearning

50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life | College Degrees. Resources and tools for using Second Life for education and training. He has a nice chart about how much more we remember for passive/active learning with multiple senses stimulated. Social Networking: Learning Theory in Action.

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Learning Theory - Enterprise 2.0 - Social Software - eLearning Learning Weekly Hot List

eLearning Learning Posts

More Articles on Second Life in Education - WISE Pedagogy , June 22, 2009. Road to Learning , June 21, 2009. The power of pictures - E-learning in the Corporate Sector , June 20, 2009. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning , June 18, 2009. Learning Theory (7). Top Keywords.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0 LMS RFP The Nature of Online Collaboration Connectivism and the modern learner Nursing Simulation in Second Life eLearning Course or Online Demo - which is better?

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Adult learning shminciples

E-Learning Provocateur

Just like you know only Gen-Y Americans are interested in Second Life and only spammers and corporate cowboys use Twitter. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all adult learners were self directed and ready to learn. Tags: instructional design learning theory andragogy constructivism instructivism pedagogy.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineos August Rapid e-Learning Newsletter

Learning Visions

Dror is a cognitive scientist, who urges instructional designers to keep the focus on the learner rather than the learning materials and to design the learning experience to the human brain. Instead, we should learn about the actual mechanisms in the brain. United States License.