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Laadli is a game designed to raise awareness of sex identification and female foeticide. This game was launched by Zapak and Population First (Read the more about at the original post). The main objective of the game is to make a ‘move against female foeticide’. Zapak and Population first has identified the potential learners as the youth (very abstract… who is the youth?).

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Let us consider a situation. You need to teach learners about Internet Fraud. The possible two ways of doing this are:

1. You get right to the business and tell the learners about Internet Fraud. In this approach, you define the concept, then list the types of fraud, and then explain how to avoid such frauds.
2. You describe a scenario with a fraudster in action. Then you show several scenarios using the fraudster to help learners understand about Internet Fraud and the types of frauds. Using similar scenarios, you also explain how learners can avoid such frauds.

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Today, simulations are the buzz word in the elearning scenario. While learner dropout is still high in elearning courses and elearning industry is trying very hard to engage its learners, there are several instructional approaches used to engage learners and increase retention. One such approach is simulations. Read more…

Gaming is the latest buzz word in the elearning scenario. You must have seen many courses with elearning games built in. Peter packet is one such course. Peter Packet is a super hero who travels across the world to deliver messages through the Internet. He carries important messages from NetAid to developing countries such as India, Zimbabwe, and Haiti. Read more…