Archive for March, 2011

Interesting Virtual World News: 3D training for Clinical Trials

Posted on 31. Mar, 2011 by .

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ProtonMedia and PPD, Inc. just announced an entire new way of  conducting training for clinical trials using virtual worlds as the backbone of the solution. Interesting development as the healthcare space seems to be a large mover in 3D virtual worlds and immersive environments. Here is the release below. ProtonMedia and PPD to Introduce New [...]

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Exploring VenueGen Today with Tony O’Driscoll

Posted on 30. Mar, 2011 by .

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Today my Learning in 3D co-author and I are conducting a session in VenueGen. We had a great time practicing for the session, here are some “snap shots” Here’s the press release: Co-authors of the new book “Learning in 3D” will virtually join 40 attendees to explore the impact of the immersive Internet on the [...]

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Adding Points, Rewards and Badges to Organizations and Learning

Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by .

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While it’s fun to get a high score on a video game, it is just as fun to let others know you are the one who got the high score. Game designers are aware of this and early in arcade games, they created a leaderboard to add a social component to what was then essentially [...]

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Congrats to Gronstedt Group–2nd Place at Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge

Posted on 25. Mar, 2011 by .

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My 3D colleague and friend, Anders Gronstedt informed me that the Gronstedt Group just got a second place at the Federal Virtual World’s Challenge for their New York City Hurricane Shelter Simulation which was developed for the City University of New York, CUNY. Check out the video. This is a great example of what Tony [...]

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Join me today at Train for Success in Second Life

Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by .

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Today I will guide a tour of a virtual “green” house and discuss the seven sensibilities that differentiate Virtual Immersive Environments from other forms of educational and social media and how organizations such as IBM, Ernst and Young and BP have leveraged Virtual Immersive Environments to improve organizational performance. I will also explain the learning [...]

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Comparison of Novice and Expert And Why Games Can Help.

Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by .

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Looking through my old “Learning and Instruction:Theory into Practice” book by Margaret Gredler, written in 1997, I came across an interesting comparison of novice vs. expert thinking (page 188). Novice Knowledge structures are organized around the main phenomena in a domain. Expert Knowledge structures of experts represent phenomena in the domain in relation to higher-order [...]

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Platform Bounce: Video Game as a Teaching Tool

Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 by .

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I am involved with a National Science Foundation project designed to teach middle school students various Science, Technology, Engineering and Math concepts. You can learn more at the web side Gaming2Learn. The design team of which I am a member has been busy creating storyboards and design documents and now the programming team has created [...]

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GoTo Meeting, Centra, Wimba, and other Web Conferencing Solutions…Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Posted on 19. Mar, 2011 by .

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PowerPoint is slowly starting to broaden its capabilities and will, I predict, soon infringe on some well known software applications in the field of e-learning such as…web conferencing tools (and others). This video is one of the first inroads PowerPoint is making into the Web Conferencing software and I don’t think they are going to [...]

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Feedback Essential for Video Games and Learning

Posted on 17. Mar, 2011 by .

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One of the features video games, board games and other types of games have over traditional learning environments is the frequency and intensity of feedback. Feedback in games is almost constant. In a video game the player has real-time feedback on progress toward goal, amount of life or energy left, location, time remaining, how much [...]

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A Conversation with Andrew Hughes

Posted on 16. Mar, 2011 by .

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Working in the space of 3D virtual immersive environments (VIE) is a small, but dedicated group of people who are creating some really wonderful and powerful learning. The other day I had a chance to virtually catch up with Andrew Hughes who is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. and an instructor at the University [...]

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