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How to Use Pedagogical Agents in Your eLearning

Infopro Learning

Agents Need Realistic Human-Like Behavior. In a study by Lusk and Atkinson (2007), it was found that students learned better from an on-screen agent who used human-like locomotion, gestures, and eye-gazes rather than from an agent who was physically present but did not move, gesture, or gaze at the learner.

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Changing Behavior by Advancing Experience and Stories

Vignettes Learning

In many ways, I am guilty of focusing on the content to impart to learners and missing the crux of the change in behavior, the ultimate goal of learning and training. Conclusion Change in behavior is one of the most important values for training people, not delivering content. References Hassabis et al.

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Measure Impact If You Want Success

The Performance Improvement Blog

In 2007, banks knew foreclosures were occurring at an alarming rate but that didn’t stop loan officers from making risky loans. Many hospitals know that they have a high infection rate post-surgery, but that hasn’t changed the behavior of their doctors and nurses. Measuring something doesn’t guarantee that behavior will change.

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Training: The Value of Assessments

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

According to their scheme, which they call the Kirkpatrick Business Partnership Model, there are four levels of results that can be assessed: Reaction, Learning, Behaviors, and Results. Have they adopted new behaviors? And finally, have those new behaviors resulted in the business results that were the ultimate goal of the training?

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Writing & Grammar: Where Did My Name Go?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

In Word 2007, that is found under Office Button > Word Options > Popular. If they had all been working in Word 2007, I would then have guessed that someone along the way had used the Inspect Document tool to remove all personal information from the document. Got any weird track changes behaviors?

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Wheel of Fortune® for Training and Education Joins JEOPARDY!® in The Training Arcade®

eLearning Brothers

Since 2007, The Game Agency has created micro-training games and deep immersive simulations, designed to reinforce educational content, assess learner comprehension and increase knowledge retention. Users can look forward to all of the fun and familiarity they know and love as Wheel of Fortune joins the current success of JEOPARDY!

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The Ceiling Effect: How the Height of Your Ceiling Affects Brain Performance

Learningtogo

In 2007, Joan Meyers-Levy and Rui (Juliet) Zhu set out to study how ceiling height changes the way your brain processes information, a pattern that had been observed anecdotally, but never held up to the scrutiny of the scientific method before their experiment. The behavior the researchers recognized is called “ priming.”

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