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The Birth of Gamification (History of Gamification Pt.2)

Growth Engineering

Also this year: Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Gamerscore system is introduced, standardising in-game achievements. 2009 – Gamification: here, there and everywhere. 2009 saw the launch of Foursquare , an app allowing users to search for and discover new places. 2) appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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Keeping up with (and verifying) digital badges and credentialing

CLO Magazine

In 2005, Microsoft created the Xbox 360 Gamerscore system. Foursquare, the social networking service, launched in 2009, and used badging as a marketing tactic to drive user engagement. credentialing programs, according to a Credential Engine report released in September. Rapid Growth.

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Brewing CALDO: How communications and learning professionals can thrive using DevOps

CLO Magazine

In an Insider Higher Ed article, “ Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight ,” employers were looking to hire “for a new role, and they didn’t want to call it an instructional designer.”. What can we learn from modern systems engineers? ” . “ Instructional Design Is Dead ” . Instructional Design is Dead. circa 2011.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect the Training Industry

Training Industry

Google's engineering director Ray Kurzweil defines strong AI as "machine intelligence with the full range of human intelligence." In a 2009 issue of Harvard Business Review, David B. From self-driving cars and games to medical diagnosis and stock trading, its applications are countless. The training industry is not an exception.

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[from gminks] Social Learning Measurement : eLearning Technology

Tony Karrer

eLearning Technology - 6:09 AM 7 comments links to Social Learning Measurement Permalink: Social Learning Measurement Bookmark this page at: 7 Comments: At 4/15/2009 08:37:00 AM , Will Thalheimer said. link] At 4/15/2009 12:39:00 PM , Sreya Dutta said. Sreya At 4/15/2009 01:04:00 PM , Tony Karrer said.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Oh.this does not bode well for Microsoft.

Mark Oehlert

» January 14, 2008 Oh.this does not bode well for Microsoft. This is the worst piece of software engineering excrement ever to wander up onto the shore since I dont know what. Posted by: refurbished computers | June 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM I like both PC's and Mac. The no country thing might be easier.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. link] December 14-16, 2010 E-Activities (e-Learning, e-Communities, e-Commerce, e-Management, e-Marketing, e-Governance and Tele-working) , 9 th , sponsored by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.