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JUNE 29, 2017

How many times have you received an “ I’m currently occupied ” response when you got back to hire that freelancer from your previous project? Let me reveal a secret. They might not be really occupied. Maybe, it’s something from your previous project that’s stopping them from working with you again. Here’s a post to help you avoid such situations and see the other side of the coin.

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JULY 1, 2016

Have you heard the term FPS anytime? No? Do you remember that game your kid keeps playing where you’ll only see two hands holding a gun, running all around and shooting other people? That’s an FPS (First Person Shooter) game. Video games have many categories but when it comes to how the player experiences the game environment, there are two types, 1 st person and 3 rd person.

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JULY 5, 2016

Gamification has been frequently talked about as one of the most happening trends in Learning and Development chapter. Research says that Gamification can help teach higher order skills in a fun based way. There have been some misconceptions about Gamification as to what are the prerequisites required to understand this subject. Some of us feel that a expertise in the gaming domain is required to use this strategy.

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JULY 8, 2016

It is a common practice to use characters/avatars in E-learning courses. But how do we evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy? Can these characters substitute a classroom instructor? Here are four points to consider for making sure that our E-learning characters make more sense than ever in the learning programs. 1. Ask yourself, do we really need a character?

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JULY 13, 2016

Why Rewards? Rewards can change behaviors. This morning, I woke up to this picture on my whatsapp messenger.This meme is about the recently launched mobile game Pokemon Go. If you haven’t heard about the game yet, you might start wondering what does a mobile game has to do with maintaining physical fitness. Pokemon Go is an Augmented Reality based mobile game which requires you to physically walk around places to collect various pokemon characters using your phone camera.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Having worked with several e-learning companies since 8 years, here’s my one-sided opinion on why you should hire freelancers when there are many companies out there, that are ready to do it for lesser cost and faster. Through this post, I’m trying to sell myself as a freelancer but only through facts that are a result of experience. Nothing to Hide.

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MARCH 13, 2017

It’s never easy to start something new and it gets even tougher when you’re starting out as a freelance Instructional Designer. Before you even take the plunge a million questions pop up in your head. How to I start? Where do I find clients? How much should charge for a project? What if I do the work and don’t get paid? And to be honest there aren’t many platforms that help out a freelancer, to educate them or guide them.

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MARCH 25, 2017

This morning at 5, one of my friends called me over phone. He started shouting “Bastion received a buff and Ana is nerfed, let’s play”. Sounds gibberish? Let me explain. Bastion and Ana are two characters from the famous multiplayer game “Overwatch”. No such thing as wrong time to discuss games. Now what does Buff and Nerf mean? Buff means making something more powerful while nerf is the opposite.

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JUNE 3, 2017

Technology is evolving rapidly. The major focus of this evolution is to make things easier for the users and make their life more comfortable. Who could forget this? I remember the day when my dad brought home our first television set. It was a black and white TV with no remote (remote wasn’t even a thing back then). We had these knobs on the device using which you could increase/decrease the volume, switch the channels, and modify brightness/contrast.

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JUNE 5, 2017

One night last week, I was super hungry and wanted to taste the new burger pizza from Dominos. I added to the cart a burger pizza, my favorite garlic bread sticks, two cheesy dips, a choco-lava cake, and a soft drink. However, I couldn’t place the order for some reason. I reached out to the pizza outlet over phone to find out what was happening. The guy on the other side checked the items in the cart and said it was not eligible for an order yet, since there was no pizza included, which was mand

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JUNE 27, 2017

Welcome to the first guest post in my blog. This post by an ‘anonymous’ friend and an expert learning designer, lists a few flaws in the grading system in schools, which creates a sense of fear in the learners throughout his life whenever he/she hears the word ‘ test ‘ Last week, after a long time I caught up with a few of my old school friends, meeting them brought back some good old childhood memories.

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