Kapp Notes

MARCH 25, 2010

While knowledge assessments have become more and more popular both in business and academia, there are still issues with the creation of valid and reliable test questions. It is imperative that an assessment item actually measure knowledge and potential performance. The goal is to create a test question that is linked to the objective of the training and that measures the right level of learning.

Assessment 173

Assessment Performance Create Evalution 173

Kapp Notes

MARCH 24, 2010

Here are some resources and links related to my presentation titled "Selecting the Appropriate Training Approach: Delivery Decision-Making" given at the Medical Technology Learning Institute conference titled "Employee Training under FDA Scrutiny" It's Not Gibberish, It's Learning as a Process Design: Compliance Complaints Definition: ABCD Objectives Steps Gen Y (Gamer Gen) Can Take to Understand Boomers and Gen X'ers Do We Really Need to Design Differently for Digital Natives Teaching/Training

Compliance Training 172

Compliance Training Training Train Learning Styles 172

Kapp Notes

MARCH 23, 2010

A couple of interesting positive video game stories. An engineering team at Rutgers University have modified a popular home video game system to help people with cerebral palsy improve hand functions. According to ScienceDaily in the article Modified Home Video Game Shows Promise for Improving Hand Function in Teens With Cerebral Palsy a team has modified a Sony PlayStation 3 Console, a virtual glove and customer software to provide exercises and activities to improve hand and finger movement.

Games 162

Games Video Cognitive Exercise 162

Kapp Notes

MARCH 26, 2010

Virtual world provider, VenueGen , recently came out of private Beta to a public Beta (whatever that means) and loudly announced their virtual meeting platform. They call it both visually appealing and easy to use. It has been described as a lot more than Cisco’s WebEx meeting platform, and a lot less than Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world. A man and his avatar.

Linden 100

Linden WebEx Virtual World Second Life 100

Kapp Notes

MARCH 22, 2010

From time to time, I get questions from students who have an assignment to speak to someone in the field. I think those kinds of assignments are wonderful because they link pre-professionals and people learning about the field with people who have been in the field for a while. Those types of introductions and relationships keep the "old timers" fresh and introduce new ideas and ways of looking at things to the people asking the questions.

Second Life 100

Second Life Games Education Augmented Reality 100