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Eariler this morning, the gamification company, Bunchball made an interesting announcement about the personalization of gamification, which ties nicely into my posting the other day–What Happened to the Promise of One-to-One Online Learning? (of course the announcement is unrelated to my blog posting but the company is going ahead in that conceptual direction and making […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →TED, the organization that brings thought provoking and exciting talks to the web and around the world (a group is doing a TEDx event to Bloomsburg..more later) is launching the idea of TEDEd. It’s a wonderful idea. They are teaming up animators with master instructors to create engaging content to teach specific targeted concepts. The […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →On a flight to AZ, I had lots of time to think. I was stuck with a dead PC battery and a completed book. So, here is part of what I was thinking about learning. I am not really sure I know as much about learning as I thought I knew. Learning is about action, […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One thing about Social Media is that new technologies claiming to be a new form of Socail Media are being introduced almost daily. To help determine if a new technology qualifies as Social Media or not, Li and Benoff (2008) in their book Groundswell created a list of questions to consider when determining if technology […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Tomorrow I will be presenting ideas from my new book: “The Gamification of Training: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Learning and Instruction.” This books shows how to design online instruction that leverages the best elements of online games to increase learning, retention, and application. It explains how to match different game strategies to types of […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Automaticity can be defined as “the status of any knowledge or skill that has been used so many times that it can be activated from long-term memory and applied using minimal working memory resources.” (Clark, Nguyen & Sweller, 2006). Skills become automatic after repeated rehearsals of the activity. Multiple instances of performing a task helps […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →To provide effective instruction, it needs to be as authentic to the actual experience as possible. The context of an online course or the context of a classroom is not authentic. Most people do not work in a classroom (except teachers or trainers) so learning how to perform a task or negotiate an outcome in […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →One early claim of the advantage of computer-based instruction was that the computer could adapt to the individual learner and provide her or him with instruction customized to their individual needs. This does not seem to be happening in the world of e-learning. This adaptation to individuals is a missing ingredient in training and education. […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Doing a fun and interesting interview-type webinar tomorrow and really looking forward to it, here is a description of the event. Description Join Dr. Allen Partridge as he interviews Dr. Karl Kapp, distinguished author and expert on simulations and games in eLearning. Dr. Kapp is a professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →There was an article today over at CNN titled “Desperately seeking Americans for factory jobs” that stated: There is a “critical shortage of machinists,” a common and crucial position in factories, said Rob Akers, vice president at the National Tooling and Machining Association. “Enrollment in this field in technical schools has been down for a […]
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