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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