I have been having a great discussion with Mark Oehlert in his post If You Believe It’s Broken – How Do You Change Our Industry/Models/etc? He also has a follow up post titled Neuroleadership and Birth Announcement that hits the nail on the head in terms of what is needed for the field–a multi-disciplinary approach […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Circuit City just announced that they are opening a store in Second Life in an article titled Circuit City Enters Second Life. The process was facilitated by IBM as discussed earlier in my post IBM Opens a Business Unit in Second Life. In my upcoming book’ Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning, I make the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →If you are looking for a glimpse into the mentality of the upcoming gamer generation and the future of e-learning but also want to be entertained. Consider checking out the book Ender’s Game which provides a compelling and, sometimes scary look at learning and gaming in the future. Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →What do you get when you cross a Nobel Prize winning science or literature project with the desire to educate youth on science and literature…you get a web-based game of course. Go to the Educational Games section of the Nobelprize.org web site to check them out and learn a little about the projects that are […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I am continually amazed by large organizations that do not have a handle on all of the training that occurs within the organization. Many have no idea what types of training are occurring or even how many divisions or departments are conducting training of one sort or another…one group is doing training programs, another sales […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →No matter what industry you work in…banking, manufacturing, insurance, retail…there is compliance training that must be developed by instructional designers and taken by employees. Typically compliance training involves the following design: page-of-text, page-of-text, page-of-text, painfully-obvious multiple choice question (repeat). When we ask learners to simply identify an answer from instruction they have seen two or […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →One of your new year’s resolutions better include learning to use Second Life. Why? Well for one thing, IBM has just announced that it will open an Emerging Business Unit in Second Life. That’s right a business unit designed to create value and wealth for the large company focused on, among other things, Second Life. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →There are video game based learning tools for a variety of topics including Algebra and Spanish. Here is one for multiplication tools. Timez Attack is a new video game instructionally designed exclusively for learning multiplication tables. The game uses drill and practice disguised as a video game (as we know Drill and practice is an […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →There is a blog entry titled Biases that eLearning 2.0 Faces (or What are we Up Against) over on Tony Karrer’s eLearning Technology blog. Tony quotes a post by a person who raises some concerns about eLearning 2.0. Like… how can you prevent garbage from being posted on blogs, do companies need to hire professional […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →If you want to know more about Second Life, you can jump into the world and attend classes sponsored by NETg. I found this billboard as I was walking around looking for educational institutions and experiences. If you already know about Second Life, they are looking for instructors as this sign shows.As the online economy […]
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