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Today I will guide a tour of a virtual “green” house and discuss the seven sensibilities that differentiate Virtual Immersive Environments from other forms of educational and social media and how organizations such as IBM, Ernst and Young and BP have leveraged Virtual Immersive Environments to improve organizational performance. I will also explain the learning […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Looking through my old “Learning and Instruction:Theory into Practice” book by Margaret Gredler, written in 1997, I came across an interesting comparison of novice vs. expert thinking (page 188). Novice Knowledge structures are organized around the main phenomena in a domain. Expert Knowledge structures of experts represent phenomena in the domain in relation to higher-order […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I am involved with a National Science Foundation project designed to teach middle school students various Science, Technology, Engineering and Math concepts. You can learn more at the web side Gaming2Learn. The design team of which I am a member has been busy creating storyboards and design documents and now the programming team has created […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →PowerPoint is slowly starting to broaden its capabilities and will, I predict, soon infringe on some well known software applications in the field of e-learning such as…web conferencing tools (and others). This video is one of the first inroads PowerPoint is making into the Web Conferencing software and I don’t think they are going to […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →One of the features video games, board games and other types of games have over traditional learning environments is the frequency and intensity of feedback. Feedback in games is almost constant. In a video game the player has real-time feedback on progress toward goal, amount of life or energy left, location, time remaining, how much […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Working in the space of 3D virtual immersive environments (VIE) is a small, but dedicated group of people who are creating some really wonderful and powerful learning. The other day I had a chance to virtually catch up with Andrew Hughes who is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. and an instructor at the University […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →I am involved with a National Science Foundation project designed to teach middle school students various Science, Technology, Engineering and Math concepts. You can learn more at the web side Gaming2Learn. I am leading the design area of the team and other people are programming and piloting the process. Here is a video showing one […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →At its simplest form, a game is just a set of defined rules. There are rules indicating the maximum number of players who can play a game, rules describing how to score points, rules indicating what is allowed in the game and, in the case of digital games, rules that apply to writing the code […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Join Tony O’Driscoll and I as we up to share our ideas and thoughts about immersive e-learning environments. In a free, limited-seat virtual event March 30 at 11 a.m. EST in VenueGen. Online registration will open next week, and the 40 virtual seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those who would like […]
Continue Reading →Playing a game that is too difficult is not fun. Playing a game that is too easy is not fun either. Therefore, the quandary for game developers is to create a game that is neither too hard nor too easy. But when developing a game for a broad audience of unknown skill sets, the task […]
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