Despite its claims, can e-learning exclude disadvantaged and underserved populations? Can it reinforce elitism in higher education? Unfortunately, the answer is, “Yes, it can.” Continue reading ‘Elitism Redux? Newly-Excluded E-Learners’
Archive for November, 2004
Creating characters is a critical part of crafting successful online immersions. These characters tend to be the main point of identification that learners have with the immersion. In this segment I talk about how to get learners involved in the immersion through chraracter selection and creation. Continue reading ‘Everybody Loves a Soap Opera: Learning Immersions Part 3′
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past 48 hours. Continue reading ‘Daily Tributes’
When it comes to creating stories for online immersions, not just any yarn will do. These stories have special requirements. They function as large play areas that must be structured enough to contain the potential chaos of many players while at the same time giving eveyone plenty of room to move about. They must contain sufficient characters, have a strong story hook, and possess a definite goal. Sounds like fun to me! Continue reading ‘Everybody Loves a Soap Opera: Learning Immersions Part 2′
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past 48 hours. Continue reading ‘Daily Tributes’
John Schwartz’ article in Sunday’s New York Times talks about how people can be identified and quantified to some extent by what’s on their iPod. The “know-me-by-my-collection” revolution is more than music, however. Greater portability of technology, increased storage, and enhanced media capabilities mean that all of us will be known by our various “life” collections. Continue reading ‘Life Collections: Where to Put Them’
I’ve been building learning immersions for the past five years, both for my own classes and for commercial publishers. I divide learning immersions into two basic types — scenario and environmental. Since my current goal is to build a complex immersion that is open, inexpensive, and can be shared, I’m focused on creating great scenario immersions online. Today, I’m going to focus on the core elements of online scenario immersions. Continue reading ‘Everybody Loves a Soap Opera: Online Learning Immersions Part 1′
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past weekend. Continue reading ‘Daily Tributes’
In one of his recent presentations, Stephen Downes talked about reading the artifacts,” or sorting through the signs of the time and trying to determine what trends in technology matter. This “reading” is both science and art, guesswork and calculation. Continue reading ‘News that (Might) Matter(s)’
History, as they say, tends to repeat itself. Take, for example the case of of the telephone technology wars that began more than a decade ago. Continue reading ‘The LMS Wars: Netheads vs. Bellheads Round 2′
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