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Abstracts of Three Meta-Analysis Studies of Serious Games

Kapp Notes

Like any good instructional method, they have to be used intelligently and in conjunction with other instructional elements to be effective for learning. A Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Serious Games. We used meta-analytic techniques to investigate whether serious games are more effective in.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008. June 1, 2008 was when Work Literacy Launched.

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Training Method Trends

Clark Quinn

He recently provided me some information about what learning delivery methods were being used and particularly if they were trending up or down. It's a bit complicated, but it effectively judges the trend - not necessarily the amount. Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 ), I took a bit of heat, but looking at the trends - Games down!

Methods 140
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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

, 2009 Computer Graphics and Imaging , 10 th international conference of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), was held February 13-15, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria. 2009 First Canadian Blackboard Users’ Group Online Conference was held February 29, 2008. link] conferences/home-600.html

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Daily Bookmarks 04/08/2008

Experiencing eLearning

University of Houston Study: Hybrid Courses More Effective for Students Annotated. Research comparing traditional and hybrid methods of teaching a college course. tags: hybrid , e-learning , highered , research. Students in the hybrid course with access to materials online scored 10% higher in the course.

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The Learning Styles Myth

Association eLearning

Why wouldn’t doing a science project to learn about a concept be more appealing and thus more effective than simply reading the chapter? Moreover, of those that did use an appropriate method, several found results that flatly contradict the popular meshing hypothesis. On the surface these seem to make sense.

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Daily Bookmarks 07/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

For neuroscience to mean something to teachers, it must provide information beyond what is available without neuroscientific methods. In general, if you are interested in describing effects at a given level of analysis, you are most likely to make progress by sticking to that level of analysis.

Cognitive 170