Pre-Teaching Interventions to Maximize Learning
What should trainers and instructors do before starting their courses that will maximize learning for students?
Category: training
Setting the Difficulty of Serious Training Games
Gamers say they want more challenging games, game studios produce challenging games, and then those games often don’t perform as well on the market as they should. This has important implications for the design of training games.
Blending Reality and the Virtual
Just imagine how memorable military training would be where getting shot in the simulator gave you a real physical reminder that you could have been dead in the real world.
College Courses as Live Games
An instructor at Indiana University has replaced the A-F grading system in the courses he is teaching with a point system based on experience points.
Risks and Ethics of Training and Educating in Second Life
Several pieces have been floating around in the last week or so on virtual crime. It centers around a basic question: is interpersonal crime committed in a virtual space really crime if there is no real-world corollary?
All Current Evidence for Second Life in Business and Education
I decided to examine the full extent of scholarly literature supporting (or not) the use of virtual worlds for education and training. It’s not a long list.