Experiential eLearning

Best Practices in Online Learning: Full Sail University

At Harvard Business Publishing we’re investigating ways to best enable our customers to use our business content in online environments.  To that end we spend a good deal of time info-sharing with eductators and program designers to hear about their best practices, challenges, and lessons learned.  We recently held an information sharing session with Full Sail University.  Full Sail is one of the premier art, music, game and web design, and film schools in the world – and its online programs have been lauded for their success in engaging and educating learners (they won a “21st Century Best Practices in Distance Learning Award” in 2011 from the United States Distance Learning Association).  Here’s a review of how they achieve such great results with their online program.

Why Educational Simulations?

Experiential learning and simulation guru Clark Aldrich has a great new piece called "Why Educational Simulations? Designs to Develop Competence Plus Conviction" in the UK magazine Inside Learning Technologies & Skills.  It's a great short piece that distills his theories of "learning to do" (vs. "learning to know") down to two powerful value propositions for educational simulations: the ability to foster Competence and Conviction in users.   For more on educational simulations, experiential learning, and serious games, see the collection of works and articles at the Clark Aldrich Designs website.