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Entries from November 2007

On Line Educa - Berlin

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

I love on-line educa.  It is an eclectic mix of the sublime to the ridiculous, from the innovative to the truly truly dreadful.  I just chaired a session on Serious Online Games in the Workplace.  So you would think from the title that the speakers of which there were 8 (for 6 sessions 20 minutes each) would present […]

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Tags: on-line educa · conferences · Corporate e-learning · serious games · Games based learning

Assessment

November 25th, 2007 · No Comments

What is it about assessment that every piece of software remotely associated with learning needs to have some form of ‘assessment’ built in.  
Before building InQuizitor we spent a lot of time in secondary schools trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to train kids in some well intentioned but somewhat clunky software.  It was a vast piece of software which […]

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Tags: curriculum · InQuizitor · assessment

Virtual World Forum 2007

November 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Last week I attended the the virtual world forums in one of the coolest conference venue I’ve been at for a long time …The Sweeney meets Blade Runner….well maybe that’s an exagerration but cool nonetheless.
 Kicked off with Lord Puttnam’s well publicised keynote
Overall the presentations were much as expected but there was some interesting stuff much of […]

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Tags: Virtual World Forum · Second Life · conferences