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Immersive Learning

Usable Learning

Remember when everything L&D was going to start happening in Second Life? We remember more if we learn something in the same environment where we will use the information, so virtual worlds were interesting for that reason, but that got lost in the hype cycle. Some of them are drafts for books that are still in progress.,

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Is Social Media Learning Hype or a Valuable Tool?

JCA Solutions

You can use Facebook polls to gather information from learners as well. They are an excellent medium for providing extended information on learning content as well as updating or supplementing learning without rebuilding a course. Is this where xAPI could come in? . Think of Pinterest as an online bulletin board. Virtual Worlds.

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4 reasons why ‘experience’ is the focus in learning now

Learning Pool

Some are merely fads (learning is Second Life anyone?). social media, smart mobile devices and always-on internet, the pace of life has been cranked up for these employees both at work and at home. In marketing circles you’ll hear a lot of talk about the ‘customer experience’, and they also obsess about the ‘brand experience’.

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2017 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

A newer standard than even xAPI, Caliper is somewhat less ambitious than xAPI in the number of use cases considered and APIs specified. As Martin is one of the xAPI originators, this could foreshadow future synergies between the two standards and help xAPI get out of the Trough (see below).

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2017 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

A newer standard than even xAPI, Caliper is somewhat less ambitious than xAPI in the number of use cases considered and APIs specified. As Martin is one of the xAPI originators, this could foreshadow future synergies between the two standards and help xAPI get out of the Trough (see below).

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Ryan Tracey – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Ryan: My caution here is in the context of the ever informalizing workplace. Otherwise, you predict that they will meet a fate similar to that met by Second Life. What I don’t think a lot of people realized back then was that the emergence of MOOCs was converging with the informalization of learning.