The Design of Advanced Learning Engines: An Interview with Clark Aldrich
Clark Aldrich, described by Fortune magazine as one of the top three e-learning gurus, discusses the gaming future of education, proposing that while teachers can suggest some promising paths for the use of games and simulations, for this promise to be delivered, we must invest on a massive scale in creating new software that challenges older learning paradigms and older formats. Includes lots of provocative quotes and makes the claim that "... schools and corporations are, basically, enemies of each other today. Schools have an impossible task. They teach stuff that, for the most part, enterprises don't value, other than the most basic competencies."
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