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in title, tags, annotations or urlFrom 'Angry Birds' to multi-player video games, NASA ramps up investment in educational technology - 2 views
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Alas, NASA has almost no funding for the multiplayer game, and there is substantial opposition from internal leadership
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The article highlighted the different agendas of the administrator (who brings the budget), educator (who is concerned with lesson objectives), and game designer (who wants to create an engaging game). I think that if students are not sufficiently engaged by the game, the educational objectives would probably not be delivered successfully either. If budget cuts ended up taking the fun out of an educational game, perhaps it might be worth rethinking if it should still be a game?
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Matthew, you raise a good point. Users should be seen as stakeholders who can help improve the game in terms of both engagement and learning.
Pearson's take on MOOCs - 2 views
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Kind of like Professor Dede's post about McGraw-Hill's interest in e-learning, here is a blog post from Pearson about MOOCs. I think his take (Jeff Borden, one of their VPs) is pretty accurate, in that we need a version 2 where it's not as lecture-based as version 1. I would guess that they are working on their own "version 2" solution (perhaps with Knewton?).
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Maria, do you know if this event is open to the public, or more a "sponsor-day" event? I would love to go!
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Not sure if it's public event, I only know about it because I will be helping with the App Inventor demo. I'll let you know once I know more info.
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