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Xiaodi Chen

50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses - 1 views

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    For those who are interested in MOOCs. 
Jerald Cole

Amazon.com: The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games: How the Most Valuable ... - 0 views

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    Clark Aldrich's "The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games" is a good complement to Prensky's books on the subject. We require both in our "eLearning Games" course at UB. The instructor of that course directed my to these two resources.
Lisa Schnoll

The Professors' Big Stage - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    As usual, Tom Friedman finds a really snazy way to say some really cool things... but he also leaves out the 'grey" areas. 
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    Thanks for sharing this Lisa. I think the last sentence in the article is where the real challenge is because the outstanding is not that easily available in MOOCs.
Jerald Cole

Coursera - 2 views

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    The new "open university" collaboration between Princeton, Stanford, UMich and Penn.
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    They have some interesting offerings with some impressive people!
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    I tried taking a course on there, and noticed that 1) offerings are very limited and 2) you have to wait until the course officially "starts", just like an in-person class. I think there are 3 starting April 23rd and all the rest are either this summer, next fall, or "TBA"...I thought the whole idea is that you could take them anytime!
Jerald Cole

The Instructional Use of Learning Objects -- Online Version - 0 views

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    This is probably the definitive online source on learning objects. I recommend you download each chapter, as it hasn't been updated in a while (a sign that it may go away). An extremely dry read, but if you take it in small doses you'll be well grounded in the concept. Key ideas are embedded in SCORM..
Jerald Cole

Clark Aldrich Designs - 0 views

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    ...and, here is the link to Alrich's website.
Jerald Cole

Marc Prensky - 1 views

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    Marc Prensky, gaming guru. Author of a popular set of books on the subject.
Yang Jiang

BBC News - Going to Harvard from your own bedroom - 3 views

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    "In the online world you don't need to fill buildings or lecture theatres with people and you don't need to be trapped into a lecture timetable," says Peter Scott, director of the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute.
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