November 27, 2010
Blog Archives
Learners’ love/hate relationship with virtual world learning experiences
First of a four-article series by Irene T. Boland, PhD. If you will be at I/ITSEC 2010, you can see Dr. Boland present her original research on December 1st. Ask a learner who has been in a virtual world what they think and you may hear that they love that they get to explore new … Continue Reading
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Competencies for Learning Professionals (CLP): Virtual Worlds
The purpose of this article is to summarize and include feedback from professionals and students on what knowledge, skills or attitudes are needed for a learning professional to be considered competent in the use of Virtual Worlds as a learning tool.
The magnifying power of the Re-Tweet (RT)
If you post something that your Twitter followers find particularly useful, they will share it out to their followers using a function called ReTweet (abbreviated as RT). This article covers both how to RT a tweet you like – and what happens when someone RTs one of your tweets. How to ReTweet Assuming you are … Continue Reading
What learners hate about virtual world learning
Now, we explore some specific examples of what can go wrong and prevent your learners from focusing on their objectives. By far, the largest source of issues for the 300+ learners in my study was the SL platform itself.
