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65. Innovate: Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way 66. What Steve Jobs Can Teach You About Designing E-Learning - The Rapid eLearning Blog 67. The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism 68. Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction: An Introduction Just as Malcolm Knowles is widely regarded as the father of adult learning theory, Robert Gagne is considered to be the foremost researcher and contributor to the systematic approach to instructional design and training ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsLife is an Open Book Test
... beat me (since he was around 5 years old) at concentration games. While the knowledge of state capitals might be valuable for future trivia, I would ask whether knowing this information is better or would it be better for him to know how to quickly look that information up (along with all sorts of other information about the state).The bottom line for all of this are two important phrases:Anticipated Information Need andLife is an Open Book Test There's more context here in the presentation, but the key ingredient is that we need to build skills in determining what our future information needs will be and whether we are trying to keep and organize individual pieces of information ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 21, 2008 - CommentsFun Game or Serious Game
Found via Bad Science -A really fun game (simulation) that let's you create things and control the physics (dynamics) of the objects and the environment. Does that make it a serious game? Maybe.You pretty much need to watch the video for a while to figure out what it is. Time to get my kids started on it.You can download the program for free at: www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/ ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - CommentsMore on Better Conferences
Perhaps that is too much to expect, but I'm clinging to the hope of seeing something truly game-changing one of these days.No doubt that Chris is more advanced than most who are attending. Therefore, harder to get an Aha. Still, it would be nice if there were more opportunities.Applause for Chris for an interesting postmortem that helped spark some thoughts. The conference organizers must love this - if they read blogs ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsStop Reading - Skim Dive Skim
Genie left a great comment on one of my favorite posts - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog. She said:"Because this is the way that we're going to learn in the future" - I love it!Not sure about the 9 year olds though, my kids are downloading music and games and creating their own language on messenger. So not so certain about reading - no one reads these days - they play. Blogs are the last gasp before virtual interactive education takes over the schools. Plug in and turn off. The 9 year olds reference is around a statement made by Karl Kapp - "my 9 and 11 year old ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 31, 2008 - Comments2007 Traffic Stats - Hopefully a Meme
KappJack VinsonNancy WhiteBill IvesTom KulhmannRay SimsAre you game?
eLearning Technology - Monday, January 14, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
... work with LMS products this year.Prediction #8 => Serious Games - Seriously Sorry, Not for YouThey will continue to get talked about A LOT. And people will continue to be interested and excited. Likely YOU will get to attend a session on them. But YOU won't get to build one, or buy one, or participate in one.Prediction #9 => Niche Online DiscussionsBased on a series of events (success of small group discussions at eLearningGuild in the Fall, success of the virtual conference with George Siemens, discussion with Jay Cross and others about a conference for people with more experience, and discussion by Luis Suarez about a targeted virtual conference), I'm starting to think that the way to go is to have frequent, more targeted online, virtual discussions on particular topics ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsFlash Quiz Tools
... activities and games using four simple templates. StudyMate provides an authoring environment that requires no experience with Flash programming, game design, or HTML. Questions and items can also be imported from MS Word, IMS QTI, Respondus, rich-text, and other formats. This makes it possible to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. Other features include an Equation Editor, a spell checker, the ability to include image files and web links, and question/answer randomization. The Flash activities that can be created with StudyMate include: Fact Cards, Fact Cards Plus, Flash Cards, Fill In the Blank, Pick A Letter, Matching, Glossary, Crosswords, Quiz, and Challenge ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentsLMS RFP
... variety of learning formatswith a Yes/No response. The answer is "yes" unless the vendor is completely off their game. All LMS products support a variety of learning formats. At least clarify what you mean by a learning format. Are you talking different file formats or do you mean classroom vs. virtual classroom vs. asynchronous. And if that's what you mean, then list out the formats and what you mean by supporting the format ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, October 25, 2007 - CommentsVideo Format Comparison - Flash Video Format - WMV Format - Quicktime - Real
I was recently asked what video format to use and particularly about the differences between the Flash Video Format (FLV) and Windows Media - WMV Format.In The Rise of Flash Video - Tom Green tells us:This is not to say QuickTime and Windows Media are dead technologies. They aren't by a long shot, but when it comes to putting video on the web, the Flash Player has rapidly become the only game in town.Why has this happened?Market PenetrationThe Flash player is installed on a higher percentage of end user computers than any other video format. Although not all end users have the latest ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - CommentsHot Topics in Training
... eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 this would be downnotable dropping topics: games, simulations, knowledge, interactive and ... -68% games 0 23 7 -16 -70% management 15 20 5 -15 -75% technology 8 4 ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, May 4, 2007 - CommentsLearning from Sports Games
I just saw a post by Tom Crawford - The Rules of the Game. In it he discusses how a very bright person (graduated with a degree in psychology at age 19) from Nigeria who was just drafted by Houston first learned to play the game - playing Madden football.I had a very similar experience with my son who didn't know the rules of baseball. I took him to a couple of games and tried to explain them - but it turns out that the rules are pretty crazy when you get down to it. Instead, I went to BestBuy and bought a copy of MVP Baseball. It took a couple of hours for him to learn the rules and ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - CommentsCaptivate and Articulate for Interactive Slide-Based Presentations
... and movies" doesn't necessarily imply interaction - quizzes, games, etc. But I sincerely hope that somewhere among your 500 slides, you plan to make things interactive. However, if you really are not, then either Articulate Presenter or Adobe Presenter should be fine. I just feel sorry for the person going through the content.One last point to make on this - these tools are not mutually exclusive. Captivate can be used to create Flash movies that can be embedded inside of Presenter ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - CommentsApril Big Question - Content Vendor Value
... define a specific enough game plan for any vendor and maybe this isn't practical for some people. But my suspicion is that most vendors need to move in this direction in order to sustain margins.I'm hopeful that we are going to see some interesting discussions on this topic.
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - CommentsSecond Life and Learning - Tony O'Driscoll
... and models: A virtual classroom with virtual students and a virtual PowerPoint deck is not the end-game for learning in VWs. To avoid these pitfalls, let's explore how VWs work, how they are being used in learning, who the major players are, and what the future may hold. I think his video does a reasonable job of showing some of the concepts that he discusses in his article:I tend to agree with Tony about the power of presence ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 23, 2007 - CommentsInnovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning
... easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Networking is a little difficult because of how spread out LA is and the traffic, but there's still enough innovation happening that how do get enough conversations with interesting people. My only other complaint is that right now it's very hard to find good technical people at all levels (but it's still easier than in SV) ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - CommentsWhat Clients Really Want
... games, or simulations, or ... If you suggest that a checklist might actually have better results than an ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, January 8, 2007 - CommentsTop Ten Suggested New Year's Resolutions for eLearning Professionals
30 minutes brainstorming with colleagues on how to make it interesting, relevant and fun. I'll consider games, simulations, compelling storylines. I'll think like a novelist, movie producer, someone who cares about engaging the audience.I'll collect a list of resources such as Clark Quinn's - Seven Steps to Better eLearning that I will use to challenge my eLearning course design. (What else do people use?)I'll help my boss understand that they aren't Captain Piccard and that the enterprise is not the Starship Enterprise ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 4, 2007 - CommentsFive Things Meme
Duffy Waldorf ... I wasn't very good. Man those guys are good.4. I like to play video/computer games (since I was a kid). Currently I'm playing quite a bit of Civilization 4 and some Wii Tennis on the game at work. The Wii is pretty fun game play.5. I yell positive encouragement way too much when I go to my kids soccer and baseball games.Yikes - I sense ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - CommentsDoes the discussion/debate do any good?
... mildly interesting) Analysis, you can see this. At least Games and Simulations were new intervention types getting more discussion.So, while some of the speakers talk about new approaches (e.g., Marc Rosenberg - Rosenberg's Beyond eLearning - Is that eLearning 2.0?) the reality is that 98% of attendees are going to go home and do the exact same stuff as before.So, I seriously question Mark's statement:Do we need peo ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - CommentsThe Business Web
Microsoft, but by services offered by companies like Google and salesforce.com who were changing the software game forever by delivering a new paradigm. Simultaneously, companies like Google and Yahoo have announced their intention to compete against Microsoft Exchange by offering a version of their consumer email services repurposed for business. Gmail for Domains (http://www.google.com/hosted) and Yahoo Business Email (http://smallbusiness ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - CommentsShift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids
Games Creation Tools Rapid Content Creation Tools Live E-Learning/Virtual Classroom Technology Just-in-Time Learning Technology Innovations in Learner Management Technology Innovations in Learning Content Creation and Learning Content Management Technology OpenNone of this makes me think about "reference," but maybe it would be included in either "Rapid Content Creation" or "Just-in-Time."Okay, now that I'm done ranting about terminology, here's the real point ...
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