http://www.canislearning.com Conversations About New Instructional Strategies Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:52:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Smallworlds rocks. A 3d virtual world, Smallworlds addresses a ton of the major drawbacks to its bigger competitors in the space: - Browser based. No downloads, no installations, no patches, no reinstalls for updates. It launches inside the Web browser and can even be embedded inside Web systems. This makes the transition ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=65 Progress comes in bumps and slides, sometimes. You work along for a while with nothing to show for it, and then all of the sudden a few things start to come together. You take those few things and add a few more things; before you know it, you've made a ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=63 We are still working to pull together the components of PlanetGED, our GED test preparation program. Each year, around 700,000 Americans take the GED and about 200,000 of them don't pass one of the five segments. We're putting together a study program to help them succeed. One of the driving values behind ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=60 We're hoping to create something really original for our Planet GED study program. It's important to us to get beyond the "buy a book" or "take a study course" method. One of our priorities is to make the program user-friendly. Not just easy to use, but also friendly to the users. ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=56 This is where we think college degrees are going. Sharp, progressive schools have long ago figured out that they can't develop curriculum fast enough to keep up with changes in the real world, no matter the field. Their accreditors are too stodgy. Their faculty are too territorial and entrenched. They need ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=35 This is why it's so hard to get a grasp around "lifetime learning." This, and the fact that most of us are so busy creating a lifetime that there's not much time for "learning." Four Components of a Learning Lifetime “Lifelong learning.” It’s all the buzz. But what does it mean? ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=32 Welcome to the Learning Age. It is an Age when learning and applying knowledge quickly are the only ways to stay ahead. An Age when specialized skills lead to prosperity; and general, easily-replicated skills get outsourced. That hurts. But it's true. Globalization has combined with the digital revolution to mobilize work. Any work ... http://www.canislearning.com/?p=3