Magic EdTech

AUGUST 26, 2019

One very popular virtual world for educators is Second Life , where teachers can build interactive labs and allow students to explore and engage at their own pace. Pearson’s textbooks, for example, are available in print and digital formats; the digital option is far more affordable for budget-conscious students.

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PulseLearning

MAY 26, 2017

The mid-2000s saw the mainstream boom of 3D software through multi-user environments such as Second Life, which brought the possibilities to the attention of Learning and Development professionals. If you answered “No,” then your training budget might be better spent on a different delivery. Assess The Educational Value-Add.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 16, 2011

We are currently developing in a plethora of virtual world spaces such as Second Life, OpenSim, Open Wonderland, as well as a handful of gaming engines such as Unity 3D and Unreal engine. Users will also be able to create and manage a budget, as well as savings goals.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Many people think of virtual worlds as the realm of characters in bizarre costumes and companies out to waste their PR budgets. I don’t expect 3D learning environments to thrive in Second Life. Second Life is a pioneer and is the gorilla in the 3D space right now.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 18, 2012

Learning is the low hanging fruit, and as budgets decrease, travel allotments disappear, tolls appear on bridges, and overhead mounts in maintaining buildings, the virtual world is an inevitable place to take the learning experience.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2008

We’re also aware of the excitement about virtual worlds, and so we’re porting the game into Second Life. You’ve got to ensure you’ve got an adequate budget, and then you fiercely protect it. There’re still zombies running around to shoot, but now we label them as the competition. Wikis and blogs?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Maybe you have the time or the budget. You might find the right guy to play the role of the client in your story, but there’s only three shots of him and he looks like a goofball in one of them. So then do you go do a custom photo shoot? But usually not. eLearning Art to the rescue! United States License.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 5, 2007

When pressed, they respond "Thats not in our budget" or "Thats not in our plan" or "We dont have the resources for that." Women Gamers on the Rise Second Life and Gaming Poll Results You're So Immature: e-Learning in Some Organizatio. Im gonna call them an "immature e-Learning organization." Games are scary.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Most of Jane’s examples – from people with lower budgets – not the glitzy example (we need to make learning engaging, not pretty). Many tools out there that still have to start with ppt Use it as a storyboarding tool, prototyping. Can do an awful lot with PPT. Creating asynchronous instruction. United States License.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 19, 2007

Here are a few things that I’ve tried in the last couple of years that I’ve pinched directly from my years in front of the Playstation: The use of music to change emotional state; to bypass conscious processing of information. . Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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E-Learning Acupuncture

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Well, its a bit out of my budget for the moment; however, Im going to Hawaii in another sense this spring. If you are a college teacher with no budget for conference travels, only $69 USD gets you full access to everything, including the archive of everything presented and recorded for 6 months! Wouldnt it be great to go to Hawaii?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

So the future indeed may return us designers to flex those creative and intellectual muscles - if the budgets allow and the focus is on real performance improvement, not purely cutting training costs. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 9, 2009

Creating a library of casual games to teach simple lessons (credit cards, personal budgeting, saving, loans, etc.) Case Study: Celebrity Calamity (Casual Financial Literacy Game) Casual game about credit cards. D2Ds vision is financial entertainment. Looked at existing games and saw issues. United States License.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Software such as Second Life allows executives — in avatar form — to give presentations to one another in virtual boardrooms. Online team rooms keep the lights on as projects move around the world, passed from one team to the next. Skype gives people the ability to place free video calls over the Net.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 22, 2007

I was of the naive mindset that ILS = dragons and virtual worlds and high-end 3D graphics and enormous budgets. The conversation was initially focused on defining just what ILS is. Something that will be out of range for most organizations, at least for now. Mark tried to set me straight on this point. United States License.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2009

The lower budget required is a big plus too. For some who don't concur, I'd suggest that when budget has permitted if that hasn't been your experience, you haven't found the right narrator for your content. I also like to use SMEs for video. And when I tape them I try to capture them in their own environment (e.g.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2007

The project managers is responsible for projectplanning and budget. The ID trying to spend money on crazy stuff in the name of e-elarning and the project manager holding on to the budget. ID is a role with that specific responsibility. So we have an embeded conflict of interest between the ID and Project manager. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2008

On time certainly, but theres no way youll keep a baby girl to budget. 8:44 AM Karl Kapp said. CONGRATULATIONS! 6:38 AM Jeffrey Keefer said. Happy Birthday! 1:11 PM Dan said. Congrats Cammy. 4:53 AM Cammy Bean said. Thank you all for the welcome! Little C. -- yes, she does now have a name :) -- is doing well. United States License.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2008

Perhaps that kind of access isnt possible, given the limited budget. As the course designer, youre not encouraged or even allowed access to actual learners to get an understanding yourself. Or maybe what really matters is what the Senior VP of Training thinks of all this. United States License.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Sometimes you want to do more than theres budget for. I work for an eLearning vendor, but we still have to answer the mail from our clients and deliver what they ask for. Sometimes I can push the envelope a bit with them, but not always. Sometimes you want to do more than theres time for. Sometimes.sometimes.sometimes. SQL server 2008 BI.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 19, 2008

Want to know where EduPunk can make a dent thatll matter in terms of budgets, openness of research and so on? typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003 The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us

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Mark Oehlert

APRIL 22, 2008

The question then has to become, if you believe that they are self-evident, what the hell happened to our design and budget priorities? typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003 Is it just me or are these things that seem to be fairly self-evident ?

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 5, 2008

Agencies Share Information By Taking a Page From Wikipedia : "Thats right, the Office of Management and Budget, where caution and precision rule, has embraced Wikipedia as a model, hosting an online place where federal officials can swap information and ideas outside traditional boundaries.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Building a Studio for Instructional Videos on a Tight Budget , December 4, 2008. From World of Warcraft to Second Life – Teaching Science with Immersion and Excursion , July 16, 2009. PowerPoint: embedding YouTube video , November 17, 2009. Video: Bring your presentation alive , September 10, 2009. May 22, 2009.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

We dont have the budget for that." Can someone just write me a page-turner of a course to teach me how to be an instructional designer for the new millenium? Corporate training departments are set up for the old-school boomer approach to training. Selling a different approach is hard. "We Thats not in our plan." Are You A Gamer?

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Budgeting for Learning 2.0: As I’ve repeatedly stated, formal classroom sessions are important, but they don’t have to be the only thing offered to the employee base, and they don’t have to exhaust the entire budget. tools into their practices. I have to tell you it is the BEST project! I thought I’d share some of the fun stuff that.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

When the first project was done well, on time and within budget they never brought up the lack of a masters again. They went along with having me work on their projects because I came highly regarded but I know they were skeptical because I didnt have that masters. 4:35 PM Cammy Bean said. United States License.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2012

He took me on my first tour of Second Life and opened my eyes to the possibilities of virtual worlds. Karl doesn't talk much about budgets or time frames in all of this, but something to bear in mind. He’s one of my favorite professors that I've never actually studied with (although he has taught me a ton).

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 16, 2008

When we rolled that data across the whole scope of the content, it was clear that either we had to double the budget or cut something. Wed never built one, and had no idea what it would cost to create. So, we built a production prototype to answer that question. Wed already cut out audio and video, the only thing left to cut was the scope.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 21, 2008

Rapid eLearning on a tight budget/timeframe, but as the ID you want to do something different and better -- more engaging, more memorable. Havent found a better, more flexible tool yet. Ive done some wireframes in PPT, but I keep coming back to Word. eB.Its a really hard balance to strike. United States License.

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Mark Oehlert

JANUARY 11, 2008

Darnton goes on to say; "Commercial publishers have raised the price of periodicals, especiallyin the natural sciences, to such a height that they have created havocin the budgets of research libraries. typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003

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Learning Visions

JUNE 26, 2009

At smaller organizations, where training budgets are limited (or nonexistent), hosted open source learning platforms will certainly play a larger role, according to our research. Would it be very expensive to back out of such an installation, assuming the media and content could be reused? 1:31 PM Todd said. Our customers are price sensitive.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Consider the human resources and budget resources of marketing and game development firms / departments. This is the same stuff that many in the learning field are already picking up on. One of the cautions to this comparison, however, is that comparing resource pools will reveal that all things are not equal. United States License.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

Some companies dont have the budgets for full training divisions with all the technical roles divided, in that case a one-stop shop does the trick quite well. Ive noticed this same polarization a little bit with some of the discussion around instructional designers with advanced degrees. Are you a trained ID or an experienced ID?

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