Pedagogies

Game- Based Learning: Game based learning simulates a situation from a real life scenario and puts a learner in this situation forcing them to learn how to do it without risk of  breaking anything or harming themselves. It is an experience way of learning by doing it. This cannot compensate for the real thing but it definitely provides the tools necessary to learn quickly with a hands on approach.

Resource- Based Learning: This type of learning focus's on a students ability to gather knowledge from a pool of resources which is large enough (such as the internet) and focus's on the learners ability to filter out information and gather needed information through searches and at the pace that suits them. This style of learning is becoming necessary with globalization such as ours where information is widespread and easily accessible by everyone. The problem with this style of learning that there is much false information floating around and without sources to back this information up, a learner may learn the wrong things.

Case- Based Learning: This is actually case based teaching, and Problem based learning. The teacher will create a real life problem based scenario and ask the student to solve this problem, it encourages analytical based thinking and reflection on how things could have been done better or made more efficient. The teacher is there to guide the learner through any roadblocks they have but is only that; a guide when the learner gets stuck.

Project- Based Learning - This type of learning presents real world problems for a deeper understanding of actual tasks that need to be performed in the workplace. The teacher is again there to guide students and teach when learning needs to be done.


An Example of Game-Based Learning from my Past

Runescape is a MMO game and in its very early stages playing the game at 12 years old taught me how things in the real world worked. To tan some leather you had to kill a cow, take its hide, tan the hide and get a needle and thread to create hide armour. Obviously this isn't detailed enough to allow me to recreate something similar in real life, however it taught me that anything that was made out of leather was from the hide of an animal which I had no clue at the time. This was the same with the process for mining smelting and heating up and working metals for metalworking and various other skills which gave me an idea of how they were completed.


Integration of E-Learning with Runescape

The integration of E-Learning could be done by youtube videos, real time streaming with explanations of what your doing and why, Power point slides and chats about recorded situations where you are able to understand what you could do better if you were in this situation or a similar situation. Graphs and priorities, efficiency of time management and resources. For example, in Runescape, you farm and this takes real world time, time management skills can be learnt by adding up all the times of how long it takes everything to grow and making a schedule to keep these things constantly planted and growing while doing other tasks which also require their time to be managed. This is for ultimate efficiency.