Reading Brett over on Rhymes with Purple got me thinking about the Gagne Assumption. The assumption is two part. First, there are different kinds of learning (e.g., learning facts is a different thing from learning to classify). Second, different conditions are most suited to bring about these different types of learning. If one buys into this assumption, which I do wholeheartedly, then a prescient question regarding games becomes – what type (or types) of learning are best promoted by game-like instructional conditions?
Solution for ad hoc web services
Looks like lots of excellent stuff is coming out of the Web 2.0 conference. Far and away the most interesting looking of the presentation notes online so far is Script-Tunnelling REST Using Microformats. Reading it was one of those holy-cow-why-hasn’t-someone-thought-of-this-before moments for me. Smart people are great… and it’s even better when they share. You … Read more