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Calling a meeting to order…sort of. The other day, a blog reader sent me an email asking about Immersive Learning and wanted some information about what it meant and how it is being used. So, here are some interesting facts and figures about immersive learning environments. But first, let’s define the term. Immersive Learning—An umbrella […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Ok, I do not want to be political on this blog since today is election day in the US. Really, I don’t care who you vote for (just vote) but no matter who you want to vote for…check out this video. The technique is really awesome. It embeds the name of any person into the […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →The other day at a presentation, a participant asked me how many companies have adopted mobile learning…was it widespread and if they where behind because they didn’t have a full blown mobile learning roll out yet? The answer is that mobile learning is just now starting to get a foothold but it is not widespread […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Great presentation last week to a group of enthusiastic trainers. Group Three Group Two. Group One.Today I am doing a presentation called “Innovations in Technology And What it Means to Learning and Training” Here are some resources related to the presentation; List of Recommended Books Definition of Mnemonic Here is a copy of the presentation. […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Sitting around a conference table for class. Another question and this one is simple…why 3D? We’ve got plenty of great 2D platforms for communication, what does 3D add? Here is a short answer. In a 3D world, the interaction with the students feels more intimate than with a 2-D distance learning application such as Centra, […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →Students standing outside of green building on MSIT island.Another question about virtual worlds and learning. How do you get learners to engage in higher order cognitive skills (e.g., abstraction; synthesis; evaluation; experimentation; reflection) in a virtual world? Virtual worlds are ideal for placing a learner into a problem solving situation. For teaching higher order skills […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →In the course of a week, I get asked many questions about Virtual Worlds, an interesting one that keeps occurring goes something like this. It seems that students find virtual worlds boring. None of my students “hang out” in-world except for class activities, and my students rarely go into virtual worlds after the semester is […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Here is an intriguing story about killing another person’s avatar…and going to jail for it. The story Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby tells of a 43 year old Japanese women who hacked into a computer system and killed her virtual husband. The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →One of the things that I love about the Internet (Cue the violins) is the life that presentations and information after the live presentation is over and begins to fade from memory. Because we now have blogs, wikis, podcasting and Web 2.0 the presentations can add value long after the presenter has “left the building.” […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Why 3D Presentation at Penn State.Today I gave a presentation at Penn State called “Why 3D?” The presentation was a lot of fun and I had a great audience and met some awesome people. The great thing about the presentation was that I got to see a number of alumni of our program and meet […]
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