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Wednesday, May 22, 2002
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/may2002/thiagi.html Zero Cost E-Learning Sivasailam Thiagarajan As a foot soldier in the e-learning revolution, I see our leaders rapidly losing the hearts and minds of learners, trainers, and designers. Strategists are converging toward learning objects, metatags, and comprehensive and costly platforms. However, some of my fellow soldiers have been developing some agile (and cheap) guerilla e-learning activities: email learning games. An email game is the poor person's gateway to e-learning. Using this format, facilitators and players communicate with each other by sending electronic notes. All interactions are limited to low-technology text messages. Currently, I use 24 email games, which incorporate several rounds of play spread over a number of days and are associated with different types of learning. Please note: I refer to these tools as games (because I prefer the term to some jargon such as asynchronous collaborative conferencing systems), but there's nothing trivial or contrived about this format. Email games produce measurable performance-based learning outcomes....
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