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Learning Science: The Coherence Principle Decoded

Mike Taylor

Picture this: I’m fresh on the scene as a new learning designer, proud of my first course about the pH of water systems in a coal-fired power plant. Your training program may be a marvel of multimedia, but if it’s flooded with irrelevant content—be it text or visuals—it’s doing more harm than good. The result?

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#DevLearn 2012: Kapp Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Pictures from the Gamification Workshop. Posing for a picture with former student Xiaomei (Ivy) Sun who is creating a lot of elearning in China. Proceedings of PRESENCE 2006: The 9th Annual International Workshop on Presence. Here are my slides from my presentation. Understanding Games and Gamification for Serious Learning.

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Gamification of Learning and Training

Kapp Notes

Game mechanics, scoring, points, time elements, pattern seeking, item matching, content ratings are quickly working their way into almost every element of life. In 2006, Google created a game to help it tag pictures and photos on the web. See the fascinating future he envisions by watching the video below.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

I will attempt to contextualise these changes at the level of both organisation and individual, to provide a picture of how universities and teachers might manage their business in the coming decade. Once again, I will do so based upon my knowledge and experience gained from a career in which research has been central to my work. Maramba, I.

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Why You Need to Humanize Your Videos with Tim Schmoyer

TechSmith Camtasia

Tim got started on YouTube in 2006, creating (what we now call) vlogs so his family could see what he was up to at college. Google’s design needs you to input information to find what you’re looking for, but YouTube encourages you to browse a selection of content. So, what is the secret sauce to SEO success on YouTube?

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Leaders are what they do; not what they say

ID Mentors

Instructional Design is about Context (versus Content). Leadership boils down to a series of social exchanges in which the leader can drive the other person’s emotions into a better or worse state (Goleman 2006, 276). Leadership touches the human spirit, and touching the human spirit has always been the work of art and aesthetics.

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Training Design

Tony Karrer

Back in 2005, 2006 and 2007, I would regularly show the following slides to help explain the heart of what Training Design is all about and how it has changed over the years. the heart of the picture and realistically how we approach training design in 1987 is the same as it was in 2007. This is the same picture as above.

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