... rich-skill practice. Further, 50% of the respondents plan to do more with mini-games in the future, 72% plan to do more with simulations/scenarios and 36% plan to do more with serious games. There is still going to be a steep learning ... flipping virtual switches in the virtual world of Second Life. The University of Maryland simulated a highway emergency ... after the person watches them being manufactured in the virtual world of Second Life. (see Virtual Jeans=Real Jeans ... content to facilitate the learning. Immersive Learning includes the concepts of games, online Simulations and ...

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Learning Gets a Second Life Presenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt Group Digital natives spend more time playing video ... (Cisco for example) Weekly meetings in Second Life. - Sound now available in second life!!!! Can express self through ... figure it out. - Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life. Second Life and Training - 1200 educational ... helping instructors do this. - Second life has own scripting language - Most of this is one-time development. A ... 2 - start creating games. Now more game design skills rather than straight instructional design skills. Level 3 - ...

Warcraft, Second Life - Commercial solutions aimed at social networking. - Proof of concept and tools potent - Problem - about ... advance across DoD. - Good training impt for National Security efforts. Moving towards more games and leveraging Web 2.0. ... needing to learn - Highly constrained resources THIS CAN'T BE DONE WITH INCREMENTAL CHANGE Higher order skills now ... for practice - Context sensitive answers - you want help there and then - Reflection - Feedback - Assessment - Skills refreshment The methods proposed too expensive to implement (esp. in current structure.) Game features ...

Yesterday I deliverd a one day workshop to 20 learning leaders at the beautiful Rancho Bernardo resort in San Diego. This was a great turnout given that this conference caters to high level decision makers in enterprise learning. The attendees were very enthused about the possibilities that Virtual Worlds can provide to help change the game in ... project as their skills, focus, and passion shift. Today, people work, communicate, and learn across time zones and ... , information has a social life all its own. It moves through time and space based on the desire and ability of ...

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The Second Life wiki of the NMC campus Second Life, and virtual worlds in general, are high on the hype curve this ... it has a place for e-Learning. Second Life is an easy target for shoot-from-the-hip media articles, and it's proponents ... participants will share the experiences and lessons learned from the New Media Consortium's activities in Second Life, starting in ... Life education landowner (50+ sims). In this session, you will learn: * An inside look at Second Life culture and ... interaction and creativity in Second Life * How an organization can effectively conduct meetings and events in ...

... consequences of NOT having the knowledge. Second Life v. Simulation - Second Life - no explicit Goals - Simulation - must ... Presentation/Discussion: Integrating Serious Games and ILS into Your Learning Strategy Presenter: Clark Quinn This ... investing in if - perfectly capable - too small a skill change If complex - or - lots of practice - deep practice ... ) Problem with comercial gaming - too many people; Most business needs met with far less resources. Scott - Microsoft ... , game (see ILS report) - Simulation - model of a system. (relationships). - Scenario - 2nd step - to a goal ...

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