Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2012

Improving The Way We Design Games For Learning By Examining How Popular Video Games Teach. This paper from UCLA focuses on how to effectively integrate teaching “how to play a game” with teaching an “instructional domain” within a game for learning. Learning Game Design: Lessons From The Trenches.

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Games Design Teach Learning 278

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2010

How Kids Teach Themselves. Details the lessons learnt in optimizing the Web while developing websites that are designed to run on mobile devices. Mobile Learning Innovation: Lookup To Healthcare For Inspiration. Traces the role of a teacher from the olden days of guru-shishya parampara through to the modern age.

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Custom eLearning Development Mobile Learning Corporate eLearning Mobile 186

Upside Learning

MARCH 8, 2011

Here are handouts, lesson plans, worksheets, websites, blogs, wikis, forums and nings in digital storytelling that you need for teaching & learning. Working With Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). The key is not just finding an SME, but finding the ‘right’ SME.

Learning Technologies 238

Learning Technologies Media iPad Technology 238

Upside Learning

AUGUST 3, 2011

While the applications of mLearning are growing all the time, here are some of the major trends to help you learn more about how mobile learning is shaping the 21st century classroom – and may change how we teach, learn and interact in any educational environment. Here are ten reasons that blended learning makes teaching a better job.

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Blended Learning Learning Technologies Media Technology 229

Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Lessons In Social Learning: What Happens In The Classroom Stays In The Classroom. Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education. Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom.

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Blended Learning Case Study Learning Technologies Media 253