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The
Education Arcade
Consortium Exploring Computer Games & Learning
This
organization and their website rocks. It's a bunch of game
designers, educators, and policy makers who are pushing
the frontier of computer games for learning. Heavy MIT influence.
From
their site you can:
- view
sessions from their 2004 conference
- read
articles on "game literacy" including: storytelling
techniques, use of music, and empowering the audience
- review
screen designs and graphics from several prototype games
in development
- ask
and answer questions in their Forum, and review many works
in progress
They're
working on a great cause. Let's find ways to support them!
Click
here to visit The Education Arcade.
Learn
SCORM via E-Learning Courses
I always
thought it was weird that we weren't eating our own dog
food when it came to SCORM stuff. So much confusion and
so much information via hundreds of pages of technical documents,
but where was the e-learning?
The
folks at Imaira have put together two courses (one fundamental
and one advanced) on SCORM. They run about $35 each, but
if you don't know your SCO from your Assets, or if you're
struggling with a meta-tag mess, these courses seem like
a great value.
Click
here to learn more about SCORM 101 and 102.
An
LMS for $1,000
Lightweight, Easy Install System Sets New Price Point
This
Learning Management System (LMS) launches and administers
self-paced courses and conforms to SCORM 1.2 standards.
Free trial. Could be great, low-risk solution for small
to mid-size businesses. Definitely worth looking at.
Click
here to learn more about this LMS.
The
Digital Future Report -- Ten Years, Ten Trends
The
report, put together by the USC Annenberg Center for the
Digital Future, comes in at over 100 pages covering 100
topics five categories. Truly awesome and a MUST READ for
anyone in an "e-" industry. Their 10 Trends section
includes:
- Digital
divide is closing in America
- TV
watching down; Internet use up
- Credibility
of Internet is dropping
- Security
concerns ease; online shopping up
- Geek-Nerd
perception dead; 2/3 of USA households have Internet
- Personal
privacy concerns rising
- Internet
#1 source of all information (movies, hobbies, health,
money)
- Benefits/drawbacks
of Web for children is still ambiguous
- E-mail
frustrations rising
- Broadband
will change everything; always on more important than
speed
Click
here to download 105 page report (PDF).
The
e-learning daily dashboard now includes links to 16 different
e-learning blogs, daily press releases and a calendar of
events. Click
here and make it your home page.
-- Kevin
Kevin
Kruse is the e-learning columnist for CLO, Chief Learning
Officer magazine, author of Technology-based Training
(Jossey-Bass), and President of AXIOM Professional Health
Learning. He can be reached at kkruse@e-learningguru.com.
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