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Cognitive Dissonance (guild): For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies-- and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.

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In this work, Menand examines general education, the state of the humanities, the tensions between disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, and, in chapter four, “Why Do Professors All Think Alike?” The following excerpts, from the third and fourth chapters and his conclusion, probe the professionalization of a research-oriented professoriate and the practice and consequences of contemporary doctoral education, and the resulting implications for liberal-arts colleges, universities, and the wider society.

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Welcome to the T.H.E. Conference Calendar. Teacher, administration and staff participation and attendance at local and national educational technology conferences is increasingly important as we build technology rich learning environments for the 21st Century.

Our directory provides up-to-date conference information that allows you to choose conferences that best meet your needs. We will continue to include conferences with both a strong technology track and participation by those who influence the use of technology.

We provide you with the ability to choose conferences based on location, target audience, attendees by job responsibility, conference size, and also the ability to link directly to the conference site and send email to the conference managers.

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Innovative headteachers at schools around the country are abandoning traditional chalk and talk teaching methods in favour of widely differing visions of an educational future. Judith Woods enters a world of spaced learning, praise pods, flexible Fridays and sixth-formers in business suits.

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Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education. Serious games can be of any genre and many of them can be considered a kind of edutainment.

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John Rice is an educator, author and speaker specializing in educational technology and instructional gaming. He serves as technology director for a school district in Texas. He is a doctoral student in educational computing at University of North Texas, and co-founder and editor of the Journal of Applied Educational Technology. Among the several published articles and conference papers he has written, many have dealt with the subject of educational video games. The topic remains his primary research interest.

Educational Games Research Blog discusses topics related to academic research and media commentary concerning the use of video games in K-20 settings. References, where appropriate, are listed in APA style for future, uh, reference.

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How would you define "learning" in only 140 charcters?

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The internet is an invaluable resource to self-educated learners. Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.

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The goal of The Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing) is to increase the participation of people with disabilities in computing fields. AccessComputing collaborators apply evidence-based practices to:

* increase the number of stu

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David Wiley's Open Education course using guilds and quests to organize and motivate students.

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Making the Most of College documents that Harvard undergraduates who spend about 12 hours per week in formal classes spend approximately 30 hours per week outside of classes studying, reading, writing, and preparing homework (Making the Most of College, p

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Thinking guides illustrate how to develop ideas, solve problems, explore topics, analyse, or gain a different perspective. The guides are also available in Welsh.

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A very nice structured, visual representation of different methods available for representing data visually. Hovering over an element in the table shows a pictorial representation of data represented using that technique. Choices available are data visu

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This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multime

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When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all. Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive’s article convinced me that perhaps it was worth g

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Memorization is a waste of time when Google is only a a few clicks away. That's what Don Tapscott, author of the bestselling books Wikinomics and Growing Up Digital, believes. Tapscott, considered by many to be a leading commentator on our Internet age, b

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Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one. However, while I've been talking about thi

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This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circums

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Kurzweil Educational Systems' research-aligned technologies provide complete reading, writing, and study solutions to help all students overcome learning challenges and succeed academically.

Kurzweil 1000 provides blind users access to printed and electr

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Even the most inventive instructor has the occasional disaffected student who simply refuses to engage. But outside the classroom, that same student who refuses to engage in classroom discussion may well be deeply involved in social conversations, politic

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