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Summary of a Literture Review on The Effectiveness of Instructional Games by Robert Hays

Kapp Notes

In 2005, Robert T. It is an expansive look at the literature on the effectiveness of games for learning up until the year 2005. math, attitudes, electronics, and economics), this does not tell us whether to use a game for our specific instructional task. Here is a link to the technical paper.

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Random Thoughts on Passive Learning and Lectures

Kapp Notes

Lectures are the best way to develop students’ attitudes and beliefs. Attitudes are changed by engaging in open debate, and one-way communications are relatively poor at changing what people believe. This quote got me thinking this morning. Passivity isn’t wrong because it’s boring; it’s wrong because it doesn’t work”.

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What You Need to Know about Canadian Accessibility Laws

Hurix Digital

The disability rights movement, legislative efforts, certain legal landmark cases, and changing social attitudes also contributed to the introduction and development of accessibility laws. It focused on barriers caused by technology, architecture, policies, societal attitudes, and environments.

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4 Phrases to Describe DevLearn 2016

Web Courseworks

Also, this past month, Guild’s Solutions Magazine published “Could Virtual Reality-Based eLearning Transform Employee Behavior and Attitudes?” This poster on the exhibit floor says it all: Moodle, the open source learning management system, has been around since 2005. Many of these exhibitors traveled from locations outside the USA.

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User Assistance: Standard Gauge

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The  Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards , OASIS, approved the DITA standard in 2005, and although its adoption is growing, it is still nowhere near widespread in technical communication. Are technical communicators generally reluctant to adopt standards?

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Games Teach!

Kapp Notes

Richard Clark against the use of games for learning is also cited by myself in my book is the meta-analysis (study of studies) by Robert Hays of the Naval Air Warfare center Training System Division who conducted a review of the literature in 2005. math, attitudes, electronics, and economics)…(p.6) What Does the Research Indicate?

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The Neuroscience of Self-directed Learning

CLO Magazine

Fortunately, starting about 2005, the emerging neuroscience of learning suggested a way to solve this problem. Firing together means a sufficient number and depth of meaningful experiences around a defined set of attitudes and behaviors cause the brain to rewire — or learn — the new patterns. Let’s answer the second question first.

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