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Engagement, Achievement and Performance in Virtual Worlds

Dr. Karen Cooper, Research Scientist for Naval Air Systems Command, presents the findings of her research on Engagement, Achievement and Performance in Virtual Worlds at the Train for Success session, Second Life, February 2nd 2012.
More information about Dr. Karen Cooper’s PhD research «Go with the flow»:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA514681
http://etd.fcla.edu/CF/CFE0002877/Cooper_Karen_E_200912_PhD.pdf
More information about Train for Success sessions: http://www.facebook.com/TrainForSuccess

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What can Virtual Worlds do for People with Disabilities

Check out Simon Stevens‘ inspring story. Simon is a consultant who uses Virtual Worlds and specifically Second Life to enhance the life of people with disabilities. He has also been a successful entrepreneur running the club wheelies.

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Ετικέτες: business, disability, second life, T4S

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Game design with limited resources

Lucas Blair shares interesting tips and concepts about serious game creation such as one-page design that are useful for other contexts as well.

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Ετικέτες: game-based learning, gamifcation, T4S

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Duke corporate augmented education

Steve Mahaley demonstrates in a lively Training for Success session the innovative incorporation of mobile technologies in distance & blended learning activities of the Duke Corporate Education.

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Ετικέτες: blended, business, elearning, mobile, T4S

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Immersive collaborative learning: Project Persephone

Nuket Savaskan Nowlan, web.alive development community manager and founder of 3D Virtual Crafting  along with Nursing Professors Eleanor Riesen and Michelle Morley from the Faculty of Health, Public Safety and Community Studies at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario present how Algonquin College used web.alive [...]

Cisco Learning Games

Jerry Bush, Program Manager at Cisco Certifications, presented at the Training for Success sessions series how Cisco develops learning games to engage, motivate learners and accelerate their learning and preparation for the certification exam.

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Ετικέτες: cisco, games, gamifcation, T4S, virtual worlds

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Upatras Open Workshop on Information Literacy

Open Workshop on Information Literacy

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The University of Patras’ Library & Information Services (LIS) organizes and invites all interested to participate in the Open Workshop on Information Literacy.
The Open Workshop on Information Literacy – http://openworkshop.pbworks.com is an innovative blended learning course combining attendance-based learning with [...]

Agile Production for Game-Based Learning

Training for Success weekly series on Virtual Immersive Environments and Gamification hosted by Anders Gronstedt featured Jim Kiggens, Serious Games Developer and CEO of CourseGames. Jim shared how their company switched from traditional waterfall & sprial instructional design & development models to Scrum. This session was streamed live from Web.Alive to the web and Second [...]

Gamification of the Enterprise

Gamers today spend more than 20 hours per week in average next to job, family etc. working really hard. How can we tap this potential and motivation in the workplace?
SAP’s Head of the Global Gamification Initiative, Mario Herger, discussed at the recent Train for Success meeting in Second Life the software giant’s activities [...]

Transforming Virtual World Learning

Randy Hinrichs, CEO of 2b3d, is presenting his book «Transforming Virtual World Learning», relevant 3d projects and research data about Virtual Words, Virtual and Augmented Reality in Learning. The book is a must read according to a New Media Consortium (NMC) review.
The event took place on October 13th at Train for Success, Gronstedt Group island, [...]