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Deeper Instructional Design
Game best used when either hard to change model and/or a skill that really really needs to change. Learning can and ... Opportunities - Focus on knowledge, not skills - Over produced, under designed - Lack of emotional engagement - Uninformed by research Advanced ID - Learning Grounded - Skills-focused - Emotionally engaging Brain characteristics - Pattern ... and when application needed. - Transfer. Broader the applicability of the skill, less likelihood we are able to address ... design environments conducive to learning. - We design learning experiences. Don't design CONTENT, design ...
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The Great ILS Challenge
... we do. Let's take our usual - what can we do to make it better? This challenge - Design a game to get to the ethical ... . And got a very high level game designer to do the challenge courtesy of Clark Quinn (1 degree of separation). A great ... started designing CAD. They do a lot of the Discovery Channel and PBS Kids games too. The creative process - bring the designers in EARLY. - Look at the property from the early early stages. Bob - one area of interest, how to make games more adaptive. - What makes commercial games so addictive, the game changes as the user plays it. More ...
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Some Facts about Immersive Learning Worlds
... learning in an immersive learning environment produce results that are either somewhat or much better than other forms of rich-skill practice. Further, 50% of the respondents plan to do more with mini-games in the future, 72% plan to do more ... games, and even suggested changes in business practices according to behavior seen in virtual multiplayer environments ... and figures about immersive learning environments. But first, let's define the term. Immersive Learningâ¬An umbrella ... content to facilitate the learning. Immersive Learning includes the concepts of games, online Simulations and ...
Kapp Notes
- Tuesday, November 4, 2008 -
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Teaching Higher Order Skills in a Virtual World
How do you get learners to engage in higher order cognitive skills (e.g., abstraction; synthesis; evaluation ... situation. For teaching higher order skills it is always good idea because it requires the learner to apply multiple levels of ... great way to foster higher order thinking skills. When students interact with each other, they have to engage in higher order skills, especially if the students are involved in a thought provoking discussion or solving a problem. Here are two exercises that provide some opportunities to apply higher order skills. The first is to ask the students to create ...
Kapp Notes
- Tuesday, October 28, 2008 -
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Seven training resource sites - even if you're not an instructional designer.
For IDs and non-IDs Alike.
(Hint: "ID" = "Instructional Designer".)
Below is a list. I asked for help recently from the community for recommendations of online training resources. I was helping out a colleague who was preparing a presentation about learning environments. I was surprised not to have been able to find much on the ASTD web ... Development site offers articles with tips for soft skills development, quizzes, questionnaires and more ... also showcasing your talent. Here you'll find ideas for training activities, games, tips for facilitators and so ...
Business Casual
- Saturday, October 25, 2008 -
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Learning Theory 101 For Sales and Marketing Professionals (Part 3-Last)
... type learning.)
Psychomotor. (Physical skills-type learning.)
In Part 2 I drilled-down on the Cognitive ... and/or services categorized under. For example, a math tutorial, a presentation skills training program, or a real ... /or perform certain skills. That's the stuff of the Cognitive category. Also in Part 2, I listed the s ix levels of ... ;information" by placing it among the stuff of skills development and behavioral change. That means the higher levels ... about..." .
For example, let's say you're a student in a course for presentation skills training.
Business Casual
- Friday, October 24, 2008 -
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New Work and New Work Skills
My recent Survey - Do You Know What These Are? really was all about new work skills - skills we should be learning. Actually, it's also about the fact that there's not really new work as much as there is new work skills. More on this ... people who said they knew what it was - thought it was an old computer. Work Skills Changing Most of us who used to ... implications? In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have ... senior year of college. I was part of a team that was working on building a computer player for the game of ...
eLearning Technology
- Monday, October 20, 2008 -
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elearning: promises and practices
Technology, 2007
Slide 74: 78.3% play computer and video games
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate ... demonstrating new skills in terms
of harnessing the potential of technologies for
their learning. These include new forms of
evaluation skills and strategies ( searching,
restructuring, validating), which enable them to
critique and make critical ...
in the basic skills with a shift from lower to higher
levels of Blooms taxonomy, necessary to make
sense of their ... fundamentally
premised on the transmission and testing of
decontextualised knowledge and skills, and
which is ...
delicious Random Mind
- Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -
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