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Games And Simulations

The eLearning Coach

For some, admittedly small, portion of learning, lectures can be effective. This makes the learning highly transferable as opposed to learning about something in the environment of a classroom which is not the typical environment in which the learner needs to apply the learning. Instead I was sitting in a virtual classroom.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED)

Mark Oehlert

Given a choice between a droning classroom lecture or a videogame, the best method for teaching Generation Y was obvious. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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The Future Of Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

Having said that, another challenge confronting instructional designers is to “think outside the classroom” paradigm. Too often we take something like a podcast and present it as an hour long lecture. Third, we discuss alternatives to the classroom paradigm of instructional design. Share this on Facebook Share this on del.icio.us

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

About Gary: Classroom teacher in the early 70s. Incremental: Some forms of online training support current ways of doing things Virtual classrooms, presentation software, authoring tools, assessment tools, LMS. If your skeptical -- its no different than standing in front of a classroom. Podcasts are portable lectures.

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5 great speakers from the AITD conference - a summary of ideas

Sticky Learning

Tools covered included, wikis, blogging and microblogs, social bookmarking and networking, rss feeds and Google services. . Participants were shown in real time the usefulness of much of the technologies (it certainly wasn't a lecture with only one-way information transfer!) Classroom Computers. 3. Tests. 2.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources , Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009. Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources - Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009. 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team - Learning Putty , October 22, 2009. Learning Putty , November 20, 2009.

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Online Networking in Courses

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Showed using del.icio.us Online social constructs are disruptive both pedagogically and conceptually." Chat forums outside of course settings don't have same hierarchy, more dynamic. Possible to create richer interactions between students and faculty. They say even an LMS can be used in exciting ways. with a CMS and blogs for a course.

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