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Do We Learn Differently Now?

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While we use personal computing devices currently (the PC, laptop, phone, media player, game consoles, etc.), However efficient and adopted in a variety of ways, these technologies supplanted human physical capabilities, and not the perception-cognition complex itself.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

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by Jolene on March 11, 2011 in Gaming Theory , Instructional Design , Training Development , eLearning Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to incorporate games into eLearning instructional design projects. The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

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The Webkit engine has been adopted by multiple smart phone (like iPhone, Android, Nokia, and Palm Pre) browsers that account for 65% of device market share. Recently, even Blackberry is adopting a Webkit based browser. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1–

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

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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. Sure baseball became popular when money got involved, but the game improved dramatically when statistics allowed one to objectively decide who was good and who wasn’t.

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

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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.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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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?

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

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After a game is complete, the coach will break down the film, showing players what they did right and wrong. Blended learning may be a newer phenomenon in the corporate world, but coaches have been using a mixture of video, instructor-led, experiential and peer-to-peer learning for decades.