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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:29:22 -0000

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The liberal arts university is becoming the corporate university, its center of gravity shifting to technical fields where scholarly expertise can be parlayed into lucrative business opportunities.

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Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:42:05 -0000

Tags: education internet web technology

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Medical education advances: Using a video game to improve surgeons' skills - Fulton School of Engineering

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:30:45 -0000

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‘Wii’ bit of technology aids medical education | ASU News

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:29:26 -0000

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Kahol and Smith conducted studies in which trainee surgeons played a Nintendo Wii video game called Marble Mania, which requires players to develop dexterity in their hand movements to succeed at the game.

The trainees then wore “cybergloves” that allowed Kahol and Smith to evaluate their performance in simulated surgery. The researchers discovered that the trainees who played Marble Mania performed the surgical exercises significantly better than those who did not play.

The Wii game players showed 48 percent more improvement in their surgical techniques than the non-players. Kahol and Smith presented the results at the recent international Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference.

The Wii-playing surgical trainees who gained some mastery of Marble Mania demonstrated more improved accuracy and were able to work faster than the non-players, the researchers say.

Tags: wii education medicine simulation asu

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Where is the Wii for Education? :: The Education Business Blog

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:14:55 -0000

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learning elearning: Michael Wesch’s youtube videos for teaching anthropology

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:04 -0000

Tags: wesch education anthropology

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Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:25:04 -0000

Tags: eLearning education learning

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YouTube - 21st century pedagogy

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:18:55 -0000

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Tags: pedagogy education learning teaching video

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University of Manitoba: Information Services and Technology - Michael Wesch and the Future of Education

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:50:19 -0000

Tags: wesch web2.0 education

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AJET 6(2): Cooper (1990) - cognitive load theory and instructional design

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:10:39 -0000

Tags: psychology learning education instructionaldesign

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Bloom's Taxonomy

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:41:30 -0000

Tags: education learning

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The textbook students built: computer science students challenging the traditional textbook

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:34:21 -0000

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Being created by students for students, this type of textbook can offer tangible advantages. Each of the authors of the textbook have gone through the courses that they are writing about, so presumably they have a better idea of what areas of the course are difficult and can explain in their own words how they got certain concepts to click. Since the students know which materials are covered in the course, they make sure that the necessary sections are covered in the wiki. However, no section gets ignored — as happens often with traditional textbooks.

Tags: education wiki learning collaboration

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