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Here is an interesting example of using an immersive 3D learning environment to provide a realistic training experience and an unusual examination process. Below are some highlights from a case study sent to me by Caspian Learning, the makers of the 3D simulation software, Thinking Worlds. Its pretty fascinating and ground breaking use of 3D […]
Continue Reading →While it’s fun to get a high score on a video game, it is just as fun to let others know you are the one who got the high score. Game designers are aware of this and early in arcade games, they created a leaderboard to add a social component to what was then essentially […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →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) →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) →Mission-based levels serve several purposes within the design of a game. One purpose is to keep the game space manageable. Developing a game in which a player wanders through one vast level accomplishing hundreds of objectives and interacting with dozens of non-player characters is a daunting programming task and is intimidating for the player. Additionally, […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Time is an element that has many dimensions as it relates to instructional game design and game play. The most obvious is to use time as a motivator for player activity and action. As soon as that timer appears in the upper corner of an instructional video game screen and starts to count down (or […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I was first introduced to the idea of an interest curve in the fascinating and informative book The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses The book describes an interest curve from a gamer perspective but I think we should also consider it from a learner’s perspective. Much of this post is based on […]
Continue Reading →By now you have heard about IBM’s super computer, Watson is a modern day wizard answering questions that seemed impossible for a computer to answer only a short while ago. Why? Well until the Waston, Jeopardy problem, one of the ways that it was thought computers could answer questions was to follow rules. So the […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Here are my slides and a brief description of my session and a couple of links of interest. The session was titled Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers #tk11 Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers View more presentations from […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Recently, the Army started the first in a series of monthly sessions/discussions about what it doesn’t do well or could do better. The process is being called Unified Quest. After the series of meeting which will last until April, recommendations will be made to General George Casey. He is the the chief of staff, for […]
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