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Using Games and Avatars to Change Learner Behavior

Kapp Notes

This is interesting by itself but when you combine it with the results of other similar studies, it becomes clear that pro-social games can and do influence behavior positively. Other research has shown that pro-social games—games where the player is helping others—have a positive influence on pro-social behavior. References. [1]

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Year in Review - 2013

The Performance Improvement Blog

Throughout 2013, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. People act on the basis of tacit knowledge but they are often not aware of how daily behavior is shaped by this knowledge. As a way of review, I’ve selected five blog posts from the past year that seem to have had the most interest for readers.

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10 resources that I found valuable in January 2013

Jane Hart

So here is my selection from January 2013. 1 - The dark side of the connected enterprise , Forbes, 9 January 2013. 3 - Perpetual connectivity will change how we experience the world , Forrester, 8 January 2013. ” 4 - Productivity revolutions and the most misunderstood man in history – Esko Kilpi, 13 January 2013.

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ASTD ICE 2013 Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are the resources from my ASTD ICE 2013 presentation. Creating avatars and having a learner perform a task as an avatar can influence a person’s actual behavior outside of being an avatar. Virtual self-modeling: the effects of vicarious reinforcement and identification on exercise behaviors. Companies Mentioned.

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#DevLearn 2013 Resources: Thinking Like a Game Designer

Kapp Notes

2013) Retrieval practice is an efficient method of enhancing the retention of anatomy and physiology information Advances in Physiology Education 37: 184–191, 2013; Doi:10.1152/advan.00174.2012. Here is the article about how only 6% of organizations are successful in influencing employee behavior. Med Educ 43: 1174–1181, 2009.

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Psychology and Neuroscience Aren’t Competing – They’re Converging

Learningtogo

A published author, he wrote The Psychology Student Guide in 2012 and The Incredibly Interesting Psychology Book in 2013. His book, On This Day in Psychology was published in March 2015 and provides daily insights into the history of the science of human behavior.

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The leader’s new clothes

E-Learning Provocateur

That’s how much the spend on leadership training by American corporations grew over the preceding 15 years, according to Kaiser and Curphy in their 2013 paper Leadership development: The failure of an industry and the opportunity for consulting psychologists. From $7 billion to nearly $14 billion. Then Jeffrey Pfeffer visited Sydney.

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