White Paper: "How Advocates and Implementers Are Overcoming Barriers to Adoption of Immersive Technologies in the Workplace.

Despite the promise of internet technology to transform learning experiences across the spectrum, there still remains considerable resistance to the culture of interactivity necessary for these learning opportunities to flourish.

Thinkbalm, a consulting firm that deals with immersive internet technologies, has released a white paper which addresses these problems and how to overcome them, "Crossing the Chasm, One Implentation at a Time: How Advocates and Implementers Are Overcoming Barriers to Adoption of Immersive Technologies in the Workplace." It can accessed on the web here.

Quote of the Day

"So, in a nutshell, what is the difference educational simulations and serious games? Serious games are how you want to learn, and educational simulations are how you want your doctor to learn."

Clark Aldrich

Video:"The Future is Now: Presentation to the RU Board of Governors"

This is a copy presentation given at Rutgers University, discussing how the Humanties teaching must change in response to technology.

Resource of the Week: The Good Work project

Few modern scholars have had such a impact of how we think about learning as Howard Gardner. Gardner, a Haravard-based professor of education, is largely responsible for the theory of multiple intelligence which has changed the way we look at knowledge and learning.

In collaboration with the well-known psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (known for his work on positive psychiology and the "Flow" concept) and William Damon (Stanford-based expert on human development), Gardner wrote a book called Good Works, about the elements that go into creating meaningful human activity.

As extension of that book, Gardner has created The GoodWork Project, "a large scale effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify good work—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners—and to determine how best to increase the incidence of good working our society."

The site is a must-see for anyone interested in innovative activity that can enrich education.