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| Do Serious Games Work? Results from Three Studies
| | Three studies in higher education look at whether serious games (or video games whose primary purpose is something other than entertainment, such as military training, education, physical therapy) really do change learning outcomes.
| 2010-09-04 12:00pm | |
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| Welcome!!! New edition of the OJDLA Journal - Summer 2010 - Volume 13 Issue 2
| | Here is our new edition of the OJDLA Journal - Summer 2010 - Volume 13 Issue 2 (Double click on the article titles to see the entire article).
Here is a letter from our editor:
Hello Readers:
We just returned a few days ago from our DLA2010 Conference in Jekyll Island. I am happy to report, for those of you who couldn’t make it, that many people told us that this was the best year yet and that it is their all-time favorite conference. We don’t do a lot to promote the conference, because keeping it small allows for DL administrators to really get to know one another during those four sunny days by the intercoastal. Since the internet and cell phone access was sketchy outside of the conference areas (really tough for DL administrators), many of us learned how to talk face-to-face all over again! Almost 97 percent said on their surveys that it is likely they’ll attend next year (when we’ll be in beautiful Savannah) – we’ll do our next Call for Proposals in | 2010-09-04 11:00am | |
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| Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
| | Gates believes that in five years time you’ll able to find the “the best lectures in the world”. You can now, but its “unevenly distributed”!
“One particular problem with the education system according to Gates is text books. Even in grade schools, they can be 300 pages for a book about math. ‘They’re giant, intimidating books,” he said. “I look at them and think: what on Earth is in there?’”
| 2010-09-04 11:00am | |
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| Design Learner Success Into Your Curriculum
| | As facilitators of e-learning in corporate environments, it is our responsibility to do what we can to ensure that both the organization and the individual learners gain the maximum benefit from all learning or training initiatives. We have a responsibility to ensure that as many success factors as possible are in play.
| 2010-09-04 09:00am | |
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| Review of 'The Complete Guide to Simulations & Serious Games' by Clark Aldrich
| | The Complete Guide to Simulations & Serious Games is described as an "encyclopedic overview and complete lexicon for those who care about the next generation of educational media." This book differs from Learning by Doing in that it doesn't seek to distinguish the wide and various categories of simulationshow simulations differ based on their structure and content and why those differences matter. Rather, it seeks to "present and distinguish between the different mechanisms" related to simulations, so that people who create simulations have a shared understanding of the concepts they use in conversation with one another.
| 2010-09-04 08:00am | |
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| Unresolved Obstacles to the Credibility of Online Degrees
| | "This is too much work for an online class." For the last two years I've heard that comment repeatedly from students. I've been teaching since 1995, but about two years ago, I started teaching online. The "too much work" these students refer to is actually the exact same amount of work as in the face-to-face equivalent course. So what's behind what these students are saying?
| 2010-09-04 06:00am | |
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| An Interview with Howard Rheingold
| | Howard Rheingold, writer, educator, and thinker, is renowned for tracking not just what is going on now in the digital world, but where the digital world will be going next. His books, such as Tools for Thought (1985), Virtual Reality (1991), The Virtual Community (1994) and Smart Mobs in (2002), usher in the next adventure in computer-human interaction. Here, he talks about skills that matter, such as locating and verifying the accuracy of information in a digital age.
| 2010-09-03 04:00pm | |
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| An Alternative Way to Assess the ROI of e-Learning in Training
| | Patrick Lambe explains in this article ways that e-learning professionals might assess the return on investment of their programs. Here in Part I, he provides a brief background on the economics of e-learning. Part II looks at some of the most common ways that organizations deploy e-learning to support their strategic objectives, and shows how measurement of viability and impact can be approached within those situations. The article is adapted from Patti Shank and Saul Carliner's book, The E-Learning Handbook, Past Promises, Present Challenges (Pfeiffer, 2008).
| 2010-09-03 04:00pm | |
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| Universities Unify Campus and Library Data Search
| | In the last month three universities have licensed EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to allow campus users to search across their respective databases, library catalogs, and institutional repositories.
| 2010-09-03 03:00pm | |
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| Starfish Updates Retention Software
| | Starfish Retention Solutions has updated its hosted retention application specifically to provide features for tutoring and advising centers.
| 2010-09-03 03:00pm | |
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