Pablo Moreno-Ger’s blog

Yet again a long period without posting, but this time I have an excuse. Sort of. I am again visiting the Lab of Computer Science at MGH/HMS with Dr. Carl Blesius. Since the last post I’ve spent two weeks making sure than the <e-adventure> project was on track and finishing work in a couple of articles. Then, one week resting and refreshing in preparation for the american adventure and, then two more weeks getting started here. And that’s my weak excuse. I will be posting “soon” about the stuff I’m doing here in Boston.

OK, enough of that. Today I’d like to announce that The Online Learning Idea Book: 95 Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning by Patti Shank is finally out. It is a selection of ideas to improve online learning contributed by different authors from around the world. One of the ideas is, surprise!, <e-adventure> (actually, it had not been rebranded by that time, so in the book it still appears as <e-game>). If you are reading this you probably know everything about <e-adventure>, but there are still a lot of other interesting ideas in the book worth checking. It is good to see an effort being invested in moving online learning as far as possible from the simple “read these documents until your eyes bleed” model and that in some cases it’s even working.

And that’s it for today. Now, if you are thinking that I just broke a 6-week silence only for a ruthless piece of self-advertisement, please don’t. Even if it’s true.

Research books, educational games