Dr. Ramachandran gave a thoughtful presentation at E-Learning Symposium on the building of specialized skills using academies.   Topics covered included:

• How do you take a person from Naive to a Master?
• Continuous Learning Model
• Deliberate Practice -- the need for 10,000 hours of Deliberate Practice to become an expert
• What is a Learning Academy?

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Presentation from Enspire's Julie Preston "Are Games the Same?  Update the Blueprint for your E-Learning Process to Leverage Game Development Techniques."     In this presentation she talked about:

• What is a Learning Game
• Learning Process
• Game Process
• Game Types:  Casual Games, Platform Games, Adventure & Role-Playing Games, Alternate Reality Games,
• Recommended Learning Game Process
• Game Metrics

Ms. Preston also  provided a great checklist as well as resources for game development (attached below)

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Here's a great example of what can be done in a training video. This 15 minute movie was created by the State of Pennsylvania to educate buyers about green purchasing. Dale Van Blokland, an instructional designer for Austin, TX, shared this video with Austin ASTD.
http://bit.ly/cTOvfd