Essential Role for Simulations in Future of e-learning

I was drawn to this blog as I researched e-learning effectiveness for another project and thought it noteworthy for our classmates. The well known author, Sam Adkins, accuses instructional designers of selling our skills as "snake oil," and feels that training, e-learning, blended learning, and knowledge management do not work.

After bashing the industry, I was surprised to see that he still views simulations as "the only viable way to deal with the affective learning domain." To support his belief, Adkins uses statistics from CyberEdge which predict that 70% of e-learning will include some type of simulation by 2006. An interesting discussion ensues as one follows the blog responses. We should be aware of this point of view and prepared to deal with it.

See the link from the 11-18-2003 posting Learning Circuits: We are the Problem: We are selling Snake Oil.