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Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction Clark Aldrich 1 Resenha John Wiley & Sons, 02/10/2009 - 144 páginas Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds Strategies for Online Instruction Clark Aldrich Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds The infusion of games, simulations, and virtual worlds into online learning can be a transforming experience for both the instructor and the student. This practical guide, written by education game expert Clark Aldrich, shows faculty members and instructional designers how to identify opportunities for building games, simulations, and virtual environments into the curriculum; how to successfully incorporate these interactive environments to enhance student learning; and how to measure the learning outcomes. It also discusses how to build institutional support for using and financing more complex simulations. The book includes frameworks, tips, case studies and other real examples, and resources. Praise for Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds "Clark Aldrich provides powerful insights into the dynamic arena of games, simulations, and virtual worlds in a simultaneously entertaining and serious manner as only he can. If you are involved with educating anyone, from your own children to classrooms full of students, you need to devour this book." -- Karl Kapp, assistant director, Institute for Interactive Technologies, Bloomsburg University "At a time when the technologies for e-learning are evolving faster than most people can follow, Aldrich successfully bridges the perceptual gap between virtual worlds, digital games, and educational simulations, and provides educators with all they really need to use this technology to enhance and enrich their e-learning experiences." -- Katrin Becker, instructor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Mount R

Find list of Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs (in alphabetical order) that Upside Learning team follows. 1. Adventures in Corporate Education 2. Bersin & Associates : Blogs 3. Big Dog, Little Dog 4. Blogger in Middle-earth 5. Bozarthzone 6. Clark Aldrich On Simulations and Serious Games 7. Clive on Learning 8. Connectivism 9. Daretoshare 10. Dave's Whiteboard 11. Donald Clark Plan B 12. eLearning Blog // Don't Waste Your Time… 13. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) 14. E-Learning Curve Blog 15. eLearning in the Corporate Sector 16. eLearning Technology 17. eLearning Weekly 18. elearningpost 19. elearnspace 20. Engaged Learning 21. Experiencing E-Learning 22. Harold Jarche 23. ID and Other Reflections 24. In the Middle of the Curve 25. Informal Learning Blog 26. Internet Time Blog 27. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day 28. Kapp Notes 29. Learn and Lead 30. Learning Conversations 31. Learning TRENDS 32. Learning Visions 33. Learnlets 34. Making Change - Ideas for Lively eLearning 35. Mobile Learning 36. Nigel Paine 37. Stephen's Web 38. T+D Blog 39. Take An E-Learning Break 40. The Bamboo Project Blog 41. The eLearning Coach 42. The Learning Circuits Blog 43. The Rapid eLearning Blog 44. The Upside Learning Solutions Blog 45. TogetherLearn 46. Will at Work Learning 47. Workplace Learning Today

In a much-debated 1983 essay on distance learning, Richard E. Clark, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Southern California, argued that it was beside the point to ask whether distance education is better or worse than the traditional classroom. The medium isn't the crucial variable, Mr. Clark wrote. What is important is to look at the effectiveness of specific instructional strategies, regardless of how those strategies are delivered. Last week, more than 25 years after Mr. Clark's provocation, the U.S. Department of Education released a report that, at least at first glance, carries a strong message about the medium: Students learn more effectively in online settings. Most powerful of all appear to be "blended" courses that offer both face-to-face and online elements. Previous research has generally found that online and offline courses are equally effective.

Clark's take on the WISE conference in Doha with world leading figures.  By Clarks account, most were living in a dark age of education (at least as far back as the 1990's) and only Gordon Brown had vision and solutions.

"Some charts, based on actual research, documenting how much is spent on informal learning. The 80 percent of learning accomplished by informal learning is accompanied, according to this research, by almost 80 percent of the spending, leading Donald Clark to say "we discover that rather than being this highly efficient learning machine, it is probably just about as efficient as formal learning" and "rather than being this highly efficie"

The opportunity we now have is to use technology to move from an event-based learning model that we know to be ineffective, to a more distributed and contextualized environment that elegantly spans the continuum from formal learning to performance support. And this is not science fiction - we have the tools we need now. Even if we didn't, we should be preparing our thinking for this capability."

This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find!