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“Brain Freeze: Does your eLearning System Cause Learning Paralysis?”

Vignettes Learning

However, the influx of information to an individual’s brain may prove to be debilitating to one’s decision making process or may result to learning paralysis for learners. Dimoka explains that in bidding wars that resemble eBay, the more information the person receives, the less likely he/she makes good decisions.

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In a cash, time, and people strapped work environment, how can we develop our own games?

The Learning Circuits

Personally, I’ve adopted Jesse Schell’s definition of a game which suggests that a game is “a problem solving activity, approached with an attitude of fun”. For me, ‘virtual worlds’ is a contentious term because it conjures the image of 3D graphics engines, Second Life and the rest of it. You need their help.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Thoughts on ASTD

Learning Visions

It discusses personality traits, attitudes toward teaching, other factors that might interest you. This is an abiding interest of mine and one that I had hoped would become my dissertation topic. That didn't happen, but I have posted a copy of a lit review on my own blog. United States License.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Learning for the 21st Century - Informal Learning , December 17, 2008. Informal learning - what is it? From World of Warcraft to Second Life – Teaching Science with Immersion and Excursion - eLearning Acupuncture , July 16, 2009. Game-Based Learning Impacts Youth Behavior/Attitudes - Web Courseworks , October 15, 2009.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Ellen Wagner says, " I Ds help transform intangible information assets into things of great business or epistemological value." Maybe thats my explanation, or maybe people are just becoming more informed these days :-), with the www and all ;-). Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). We move on.

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35 Top eLearning Articles and 6 Hot Topics for March

eLearning Learning Posts

The conference took place entirely in the virtual immersive environment of Second Life with a venue of presenters from around the world. PKM in a nutshell - Learning and Working on the Web , March 22, 2010 Personal Knowledge Management: A way to deal with ever-increasing digital information. Using Del.icio.us

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

How to effectively architect information for your elearning course - Free as in Freedom , February 6, 2010 As Instructional Designers, its always a challenge to balance meaningful instruction with information. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now.