The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning  
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November 17-19, 2008 Banff, Canada. The gaming strategies and toy design that incorporate both individual and social activities Read more
A 'digital immigrant' in Teaching English  
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I have just joined this online community as a result of a course on online teaching and learning I am taking at the moment.

Making the Online Classroom a Learning Organization  
Learning organizations are proficient at two types of learning: "adaptive" learning and "generative" learning. To survive, an organization must solve short-term problems. This is the realm of adaptive learning. But, what sets learning organizations apart from other institutions is generative learning. Generative learning enhances the capacity to create... Read more >>
Transfer Of Learning Traced To Areas Of The Brain  
Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have been training our memory for words? ... Read more >>
Creating Evaluation Strategies for Simulations  
There are different approaches in creating an appropriate simulation evaluation strategy. Of course they should be around the core Learning Goals and Program Goals. But, pragmatically, they tend to be heavily influenced by the primary variables of effectiveness, cost (including political cost), evaluation of program vs. evaluation of student, and political and program expediency... Read more
4th International Conference on University Learning and Teaching  
Transforming Learning and Teaching: Towards International Practices. Concorde Hotel Shah Alam, Malaysia. 20-21 October 2008. .. Read more
Learners and technology: 7-11  
This research project aimed to facilitate the ‘learner voice’ of Key Stage 2 pupils with regards to their use of technology for learning. Data was collected from 612 pupils... Read more
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