In one of the blogs from Stephen Downes’ “Breaking the Power Laws” list, Stuart Towns recommends a nifty little tool called Wink. While it definitely falls in the low-end category of the range of software simulation products I outlined in eLearn, it has the great benefit of being free.
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From the Sloan Consortium, whose web site is turning out to be a gold mine of solid higher ed distance learning research, come articles on teaching electronics and Chemistry through distance learning. They used multimedia simulations of electronics in the former case while resorting to kitchen chemistry assignments in the latter case. For both courses, [...]
