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Any network-based environment intended for simultaneous interaction with one or more participants such as multimedia, games, chat rooms, and virtual reality.

  • Digital Equity: Training Future Teachers to Bridge the Divide - McLaughlin and Pittman
    Future teachers need to better understand the scope and nature of the digital divide-and how to overcome obstacles. Statistics do not present the realities about access to computers in our underserved schools.
  • E-Portfolio Decisions and Dilemmas
    The definition of e-portfolio covers a wide spectrum of approaches to documentation and assessment, with a correspondingly wide array of differing audiences and purposes. In addition, the unique role of technology in the mediation of action and learning adds to the dilemmas inherent in the decisions that need to be made when designing and implementing e-portfolio systems.
  • SimuLearn web site
    Clark Aldrich, author of Simulations andthe Future of Learning as well as Learning by Doing is the key figure behind this business-oriented web site that promotes the Virtual Leader simulation. We promote his books elsewhere, and direct you to his site right here.
  • Teaching Methods COOPERATIVE LEARNING
    Cooperative learning can be summarized as “the instructional use of small groups so that the students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning.” Cooperative learning groups proliferate in every educational setting, regardless of the age or educational level of the students present. In cooperative learning situations, there is a “positive interdependence among students’ goal attainments; students perceive that they can reach their learning goals if and only if the other students in the learning group also reach their goals.” The NBCTs in these video clips have chosen to use cooperative learning groups to meet specific content goals.
  • The Whyville Initiative
    Read up the founder of "Whyville" and the project at Education Arcade. OR just go there and play around like a kid would! .

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