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GBL 2010 – Recap (Day 2 Part 1): Serious Games

Upside Learning

I have been thinking about penning this one for a couple of weeks now, but just couldn’t do sooner. Related posts: Game Based Learning 2010 – Recap: Day 1 Patterns at Play – Fundamental to Games What are Serious Games? And as I worked on this one I realized some of them have already faded away from my memory. A Follow-up Post.

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Using Games and Avatars to Change Learner Behavior

Kapp Notes

After the game was over, participants waited as the researcher then “accidently” spilled a cup of pens a few feet away. No former virtual world helicopter passengers helped pick up the spilled pens. 2010) The Effects of a Serious Game on Role-Taking and Willingness to Help, Journal of Communication. 60 (2010) 723–742.

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Procrastination and Creativity

Mitch Moldofsky

Over at the Learndash blog , blogger Laura Lynch pens a very useful guide to helping learners in an online course avoid procrastination, a predictor of learner churn. Enter the Creativity Research Journal, whose 2010 study by J.R. While this is true, I can't help thinking procrastination in general gets a bad rap. Cohen and J.R.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools 2010 – Innovators, Winners and Updated Trends

eLearning 24-7

In 2010, the RCAT market continued its upswing and nothing indicates to me it will be changing anytime soon. 2010 E-Learning 24/7 Awards (No official icon logo handed out to winners, rather just a “WHOO-HOO&# – uh, you can make that sound to yourself.thank you). Market Trends Update 2010. Support for Office 2010.

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Microsoft 2019 – What to expect

OpenSesame

For past product releases in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016, we saw that depending on your level of enthusiasm for the new features, buyers either rushed out to upgrade or decided to wait another three years to see what comes next. You can convert your sketches to shapes if needed, and your customized pens will show up in any Office app.

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eLearning Conferences 2010

Tony Karrer

link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] January 8, 2010 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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Microsoft 2019 - What to expect

OpenSesame

For past product releases in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016, we saw that depending on your level of enthusiasm for the new features, buyers either rushed out to upgrade, or decided to wait another three years to see what comes next. . You can convert your sketches to shapes if needed, and your customized pens will show up in any Office app. .