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Participate In Towards Maturity’s 2013 Benchmark Survey

Upside Learning

It’s the Towards Maturity 2013 Benchmark Survey. For those of you who are not aware of the Towards Maturity Benchmark, it is an internationally recognized, vendor neutral, longitudinal study that considers how organizations are establishing successful e-enabled learning strategies in the workplace. Upcoming Events. FREE eBook.

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Spaced Retrieval, Retrieval Practice, and Knowledge Guru: What Research Tells Us

Knowledge Guru

Spaced Retrieval involves providing students with quiz or course content spaced over time and it, too, is among the most robust findings in educational psychology research. [4] As the researchers indicated, “In our experiments, when we asked students if they were mind-wandering, they said yes roughly 40 percent of the time.

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Abstracts of Three Meta-Analysis Studies of Serious Games

Kapp Notes

A meta-analysis is a study of studies. It is a way of aggregating research data to make informed conclusions rather than relying on the data of one study. 2013, February. However, until now research has shown little evidence for these assumptions. Wouters, P., van Nimwegen, C., Journal of. Connolly, T.

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ASTD ICE 2013 Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are the resources from my ASTD ICE 2013 presentation. W209 – Interactivity, Games, and Gamification: A Research-Based Approach to Engaging Learners Through Games from Karl Kapp. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. A study by Ersner-Hershfield et al. Companies Mentioned. Zombies Run.

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#DevLearn 2013 Resources: Thinking Like a Game Designer

Kapp Notes

Spaced Retrieval involves providing students with quiz or course content spaced over time and it too is among the most robust findings in educational psychology research.[4] Repeated testing improves long-term retention relative to repeated study: a randomized ontrolled trial. Here is link to story of research in India.

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Learning Research by Annie Murphy Paul: Distributed Practice, Repetition and More

Knowledge Guru

” Most importantly for learning professionals, she has sifted through loads of research on the science of learning, synthesized it, and presented it to us in easy-to-read chunks, (usually) once a week. The report shows that multiple repetitions, spaced out over time, build long-term memory better than other study methods.

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Study Abroad, Employers Love It

CLO Magazine

Despite the need for an international perspective in today’s global economy, few college and university students take advantage of opportunities to study overseas prior to graduation. During the 2013-14 academic year, just over 300,000 higher education students in the U.S. A March research study commissioned by Kaplan Inc.

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