Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f85Gp8f28460; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05001908b7bc07737578@[146.186.96.32]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Priscilla Carman <psc3@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:291] X-post: nifl-technology X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1342 Lines: 26 Re: "I am familiar with The Office, but is there a charge to use it?" From the website: In its current version, The Office is a free online resource that serves as a vehicle for collecting user reactions and feedback. As such, it can promote and test the potential and ideas associated with instructional systems that are based on inclusive, contextualized, interactive environments. We are continuing to expand the skill strands and to add new tasks to existing strands. These new skills will be part of an enhanced version of the program targeted for a December 2001 release. We also expect to expand the number of simulations available for learners, based on what we learn from feedback on The Office. The current program uses an office for its workplace context. We hope to develop at least two other contexts, one covering health care and the other manufacturing. Because the underlying skills in all three contexts are similar, we expect to create the new materials by making relatively minor changes in the current program. Graphics, examples, and some content will be revised, but the underlying logic should be transferable among contexts. This transferability of instructional procedures is a major strength of our contextualized learning philosophy and has promise for creating school learning environments as well.
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