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Learning is fun. Education should be fun.

Sometimes going to school is not fun however…

The basic concept of delight based learning is that you learn more (in depth) and develop new skills faster when you are having fun and your brain is excited.

I am not sure what I think about game learning (of the video game variety), but I guess that is basically in line with the classical philosophy that children learn by pretending they are adults and dreaming about doing adult activities.

• Playing with toy trucks is dreaming about driving a truck, and learning what trucks are are all about.
• Playing with dolls is building future skills for child-care — when the child becomes an adult.

However, some lessons we learn in life are painful… so is that “pain based learning”?

Learning Communities

How can we develop more delight filled (or is that delightful – full of light) learning communities? We have social networks, but they are not always the best kind of learning community.

Moodle (according to Moodle.org) “is a course management system (CMS) – a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. ”

Wikipedia says:

Moodle is a free software e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), or Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)). It has a significant user base with 38,896 registered sites with 16,927,590 users in 1,713,438 courses (as of January, 2008). more…

The skeptic in me says, just because a lot of people are using it, doesn’t me it’s good. Who’s having fun learning anything in one of these learning communities?