The Educational Value of Serendipitous Encounters in Second Life
I am listening to John Wiecha, a physician an professor at Boston University Medical Center, talk about teaching continuing Medical education (CME) using Second Life. Second Life’s value was recently debated by Roger Schank and his the people commenting in […]
But Can She Juggle? eLearn Magazine’s Newest Author Was a Clown
People Magazine notwithstanding, gossip is fun. Learning about people’s backgrounds is too. Typically, though, I don’t know much about the backgrounds of the people who submit to eLearn Magazine beyond their e-learning experiences. A notable exception to this is Roger […]
Achieving Perfection or Avoiding Mistakes: Start Off Your Fall with These Six Tips
It’s September and thoughts turn to apple-picking, fall fashion, and school. Top 10 Common Teaching Mistakes For Teachers To Avoid had valuable points on achieving perfection, as I try to do, or avoiding mistakes. Here are 6 tips to improve […]
Underground Efforts Yield Big Results with Social Media
Social Networking on Intranets looked at the use of social media within organizations and found that “Underground efforts yield big results. Companies are turning a blind eye to underground social software efforts until they prove their worth, and then sanctioning […]
The Next Ten Years: Developing Technological Literacy Skills to Participate Fully in the Modern World
Every year I ask people what they predict for e-learning in the coming year. Recently I asked Johann Ari Larusson, a doctoral candidate in the Computer Science Department at Brandeis University, what he expected the biggest changes to be in […]