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A virtual world designed to enhance learning, By putting students in realistic situations and encouraging practise based learning. 

Makes a brilliant case for why learning should be fun. Why play should be at the centre of learning.

In elite sports, being the most talented is no longer enough; top athletes also have to ensure they are the better prepared.They understand that their only sustainable advantage is to learn and improve faster than their opponents. The technology used by performance analysts allows them to measure every force, dissect every movement and time every action with absolute precision. That feedback allows athletes to find areas for improvement and aids the learning of new skills.

"Ongoing e-learning initiatives focusing on healthcare education" Curated by Nabil Zary

the head of sakai explaining how he wants education to be open, not a black box and he doesn't want people to have to wait for their institution to get the best system.  Fascinating presentation. Highlighting that developers of LMS's share our vision so they're willining to cooperate if we approach in the right way. 

Skill development means learning by doing. Information is abundant, How does information become knowledge?

brilliant animation explaining how the nervous system is influenced by training and how to use this knowledge for better learning

why play, exploration and going down the wrong route is issential to learning

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA's research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players.

Excellent explanation of an idea to educate people about their bodies in order to change their behaviour and help with their problems. 

Brilliant example of making learning interesting. Consider infection from the point of view of the pathogen. Create your own virus or bacteria and infect a host human.  Really fun and interesting.

now this is not a virtual learning environment but a great deal can be learned from what there doing I think...worth a read

great article on the Khan academy with sidebars to other e-learning as well

The growing acceptance of Neuro plasticity lets us see the brain as a resource we can continually develop. This talk describes a programme designed to help us address limitations of our own brain and even take our skills to exceptional levels Barbara Arrowsmith-Young tells the inspiring story of how she overcame her severe learning difficulties with specific brain exercises she developed herself. We also hear the moving accounts of two Australians who've taken a leaf out of her book.  They've found the hard work has paid off.

Short-term memory is formed and lost far too quickly for it to be explained by any (known) kind of synaptic plasticity. So how does it work? British mathematicians Samuel Johnson and colleagues say they have the answer: Robust Short-Term Memory without Synaptic Learning.

""We've learned that the same pathway that is activated strongly and prematurely in kids with progeria is also happening in you and me. That toxic protein they make from the beginning is also in our cells as we approach senescence. So cell senescence is not just a running down of the system - it's an active process. A signal turns on this protein." And that aging signal, Dr. Collins added, is connected to the shortening of the chromosome tips that serves as a cellular clock. So the glimpse into aging the kids with progeria provide may have illuminated a new risk factor that can damage blood vessels even in a star athlete who eats only broccoli."

L'Ecorché is a groundbreaking, intuitive tool developed by artists, for artists to reference anatomy. It's not a book, it's not a sculpture. It's an elegant and painstakingly-detailed fusion of the two that takes the best of both and brings them into a whole new medium for learning.

A fascinating talk on how the mind learns and stores memory, and also shares some of his most recent findings.

This is a fascinating piece exploring the world of electronics and its relation to biology. Particularly the nervous system. It explains the lessons we are learning from the brain in how to produce amazing efficient yet powerful computational devices. 

Ward Round is an exciting new medical learning experience where you are placed in the role of the doctor to solve clinical medical mysteries against the clock. Test your medical knowledge and improve your clinical deductive skills through varied cases, spread across nine specialties, to become the ultimate diagnostician.