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People – Researcher Mark Friedman Wins at Games Conference

Register now if you plan to attend ImplementationFest. This annual event, now in its 9^th year, will address the newest capabilities for supporting the distributed learning needs of Warfighters. The event is hosted by the Orlando-based Joint ADL Co-Laboratory (JADL) in cooperation with the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA).

Guest keynote speakers include Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau, U.S. Navy, President of the National Defense University, and Dr. Jan Cannon-Bowers, Professor, from the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. The agenda also includes sessions on modeling and simulation, game-based training, virtual worlds, the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), the ADL-Registry, S1000D, and more. Click here for more information and to register.

ADL’s free learning opportunities take advantage of online meeting technology to provide frequent webinars to keep you abreast of the latest developments with ADL technologies and design strategies for reusable content. This month our experts are offering webinars on Creating Reusable Content with SCORM 2004 and Selecting Authoring Tools. No pre-registration is required, but participation is limited to 25 persons on a first-come, first served basis. Click here for times, access information, and other webinar information.

Do you have expertise in the following distance learning research areas - Interoperability of Learning and Training Systems; Team Training; Learner Profile Management; Advanced Content Management; Content Life-Cycle Management; Mobile Devices and Web 2.0 Technologies; or Return on Investment (ROI) and ADL Technologies? If so, we want to hear from you! ADL is teaming up with the U.S. Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command, Simulation and Training Technology Center (RDECOM-STTC) in a joint research effort that will be mutually beneficial. Refer to BAA W91CRB-08-R-0073 Amendment 2, Topic 7 for more information.

Generally researchers attend conferences to report on their results, not do more research! But that’s exactly what Mark Friedman, a Web 2.0 technologies researcher and member of ADL’s Immersive Learning Technologies Team, got to do at the 5th Annual Games, Learning, and Society Conference. Teams of participants spent two days collecting data from fellow attendees; Mark’s team opted to zero in on the Twitter traffic at the conference. Their team’s report of the results was selected as the conference’s "Most Surprising Finding"! You can read more about his impromptu research experience here. Congratulations to Mark and team for their revealing research.

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