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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Learning in Virtual Worlds - 10 year review

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Photo credit: Torley

What have we learned in the last ten years about learning in 3D virtual environments?   Are they worth the significant resources required to build them?  Do students learn better in them, and how do teachers feel about them?  Mikropoulos and Natsis conducted a review of the research over the last decade to help us find out.  Here is an informal summary of their findings..
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

eLearning environments - embodying the language of the field

Posted on 20:22 by Unknown


How often is the content for an eLearning experience written to specifically embody the language, values and philosophies of the discipline that is being learned?  Dr. Lucila Caravalho of the CoCo Research Centre presented her work in this area looking at informal learning in the fields of engineering and design, and there were lessons to be learned for Learning Interface Designers...




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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

MIT Center for Mobile Learning

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MIT is launching a new Centre for Mobile Learning as part of their world-renowned MIT Media Lab.  The centre sprung from Hal Abelson's work with Google on the educational tool App Inventor which allows anyone to create apps for Android mobile phones.  These guys will certainly be worth keeping an eye on.
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Monday, 1 August 2011

"Do Lecture" - Games as teachers

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See Alice Taylor, Channel 4 Education Commissioner discuss "How games can become teachers".

This lecture is part of the "Do Lectures" series which is kind of like the TED lectures gone camping.

Their beautifully art directed website explains: "Ideas + Energy = Change" and hosts talks from activists, designers and technologists the likes of Tim Berners-Lee.
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Learning stages for User Experience Design

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What a delighter to find my weekly helping of "A list Apart" this morning came topped with the title "UX for Learning".  A List Apart is an impeccably produced online publication from the makers of some of the industry's best websites and books on websites.  The latest post by Tyler Tate shows that  Learning is beginning to slide its foot in the door with a larger design audience.

Tate
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Turn to the sherpa

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Check out this highly informative, expertly crafted (and so pretty it's like dessert) new web publication: The Web Standards Sherpa.  "Journeying towards best web practices."  Everything here can be applied to the design of web-based learning environments.
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

HTML 5 for learning interfaces

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The global design scene has been nutty for the promise of HTML 5 for a while now, but can we use it for building elearning activities today?  Find out in the recent trial and report published by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework...



The Interactive e-learning using HTML5 trial just released a report that shows how 5 online learning activities, originally created in flash, could be
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