technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
A report from the National Science Foundation recently stated that a majority of young people believe astrology to be scientific, as reported by Science News, Mother Jones, UPI, and Slashdot, among others. Troubling if...
By now, if you read this blog, I assume you at least have a passing familiarity with massively online open courses (MOOCs), the “disruptive” technology set to flip higher education on its head (or...
Recently, Old Dominion University embarked on an initiative to improve the teaching of disciplinary writing across courses university-wide. This is part of ODU’s Quality Enhancement Plan, an effort to improve undergraduate instruction in general. It’s...
Over the last two days, I attended the OpenVA conference and its Minding the Future preconference. The purpose of these events was to bring together faculty in Virginia to talk about open and digital...
Most academic research on video games studies them as single player experiences – a single individual, alone in a room with a game console. Study on massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) is also growing. However, much (and...
In a recent issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Landers and Callan ((Landers, R.N., & Callan, R.C. (2012). Training evaluation in virtual worlds: Development of a model Journal of Virtual Worlds Research,...