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Network Theory

E-Learning Provocateur

In the game, players try to connect random movie stars to Kevin Bacon in as few steps as possible. Small-world networks. Networks that have a small average shortest path length between nodes, along with high clustering coefficients, are known as “small world networks&#. Take Cate Blanchett for example.

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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

If you are considering to use streaming videos, you can have two options – either setup your own server by buying Flash Media Interactive Server OR use services from third-party content delivery network (CDN) companies partnered with Adobe if there are hundreds of high quality videos to be delivered and your viewership is high enough.

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Is Your Measuring Stick Allowing You To Manage For The Better.

Dashe & Thomson

Players ultimately developed, and their stats reflected that. There would be little argument as to how good a player was and what a player was worth. If baseball statistics had not developed to accurately evaluate a player or team, the game would have fallen out of favor with adults and returned to its original farm boy state.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts. If a receipt looked suspicious, players could write a description and hit an Investigate This! To add an element of competition, a leaderboard tracked and displayed which players had made the most finds.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

After a game is complete, the coach will break down the film, showing players what they did right and wrong. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Then, to prepare for the next opponent, the coach will show film of that opponent in action. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.