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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

While games like these provide a fun alternative to boring quizzes, they do not provide context. Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. According to McGonigal, When we play a game, we think creatively, collaborate, and persist. To be effective the game must make work seem like play. Properly d.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Second Life and Gender

Learning Visions

Should we be looking at alternative virtual worlds such as Protosphere ? Im going to Maine. As e-Learning strategists and practitioners pushing these cutting edge tools, weve got to make sure that the tools suit the audience. As Cathy Moore suggests, will SL alienate female participants? Talk amongst yourselves.

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The Building Blocks of a Successful e-Training Program

ICS Learning

A viable solution might be on-line, live (synchronous) instructor-led training combined with an easily updateable on-line reference library of sales support material and current promotional materials. Synchronous e-Learning. Another issue you might face is how to handle the spontaneous training needs of a distributed work force?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Im not sure how this relates to danah boyds recent blog article on Viewing American class divisions through FaceBook and MySpace. Im a major geek, yet I avoid Second Life and continue to be skeptical about its use in elearning. More professional alternatives to Second Life could certainly be powerful places for learning.

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Great FREE Software Downloads

The eLearning Coach

It’s the free alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite. You can also paste the video into an IM chat, email or Twitter. Dropbox seems to be the file synchronization software of choice. It will automatically synchronize files between all of your computers, regardless of whether they run the Mac, Windows or Linux OS.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

Although this movement away from Flash will generate cost and complexity for eLearning professionals, LearnUpon offers their customers a number of alternatives including support for HTML5 content delivery. Originally used to compress image files, nowadays it’s best known for moving images which are a lightweight alternative to video.