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JULY 13, 2015

quote brought to my attention by this article Rethinking Direct Instruction in Online Learning. And a really interesting quote about the article was published at Science Magazine which had a Harvard person saying: “This is a really important article—the impression I get is that it’s almost unethical to be lecturing if you have this data.”.

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MAY 14, 2012

We also had two book reviews one by Connie Malamed at eLearn Magazine and another book review by Jennifer Neibert of Learning Solutions Magazine. If you have a chance, read Ruth’s article. He talked about gamification to of personal learning and sharing and the gamification of teaching. It’s a start.

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Gamification Blogging Blended Learning Games 133

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

A recent article in Wired presented an interesting research finding. Also see my article Can a Video Game Make Someone Nice? The Positive Impact of Pro-social Games for a discussion of an additional research study on this topic published at eLearn Magazine. References. [1] 1] Rosenberg, R.S. Baughman, S.L., Bailenson, J.N.

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Behavior Games Change Virtual World 257

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NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Based on 2013 Ed Tech Magazine’s data , 94% of college students (18-24 years old) in traditional American colleges own and use mobile devices for academic pursuits. They can store articles and web clippings, images, ebooks, documents, and other learning resources over cloud services like Dropbox and SkyDrive. Cloud Storages.

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Mobile VOIP Scanning Lecture 221

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Speaking of alumni (see yesterday's post ) This month ASTD's magazine T&D featured one of Bloomsburg University's Instructional Technology alumni, Rachel in their article FUTURE LEADERS 2020. The article is about up and comming folks and what they are doing in the field of learning and e-learning.

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APRIL 14, 2008

I find this one article Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees in the Fairleigh Dickinson University Magazine to be a good read and a good overview of the issue. This article Retaining the Four Generations in the Workplace which is not too deep but a nice overview, works well with the FDU article mentioned above.

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MAY 14, 2012

We also had two book reviews one by Connie Malamed at eLearn Magazine and another book review by Jennifer Neibert of Learning Solutions Magazine. If you have a chance, read Ruth’s article. He talked about gamification to of personal learning and sharing and the gamification of teaching. It’s a start.

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Gamification Blogging Games Teach 100

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Top US Search Providers October 2009 ) There are more than 85,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages at Wikipedia. There are approximately 3,094,793 articles in English. Here are some interesting Web 2.0 Statistics gathered from a number of different sources.

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Statistics Web Social Networks Technorati 198

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APRIL 2, 2010

The FDA regulates what pharmaceutical companies can say in magazines, newspapers, television and even doctor's offices. The next frontier, it appears, is social media. The FDA back in November 2009 had a meeting to gather input about the use of Social Media to represent products and inform the public.

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Social Media Media Social Director 173

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JUNE 22, 2009

Also, as part of the radio interview process, I wrote an article about the role video games can play in education. So checkout Eyes on Our Educators - Central PA Magazine, July 2009 to see the article. Again, please stop by and a leave a comment and your reaction to the article.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

There were other unscheduled stops, including an article in Mashable, Forbes and an upcoming piece in Delta’s Sky Magazine are all a result of interest the tour generated. The sentiments are the same ones outlined in a few articles related to the tour. Games, Gamification and the Quest for Learner Engagement. More to Come.

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Gamification Instructional Instruction Blogging 192

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This is a new phenomenon, according to the article, as recently as 2002, there were no million-dollar presidents, only four earning more than $800,000, and 27 earning more than $500,000 (now there are 110). Here is an interesting quote from a US Today Article. Money Magazine Article. wages flat-lining since 2000.

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Education Cost Wikipedia Market 118

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APRIL 1, 2010

The technology of television shook the world, as one Time Magazine article in 1948 stated, “television showed every sign of being a young monster. In one year, TV's formless, planless growth has caused seismic-like cracks in the foundations of such industries as radio, movies, sports and book publishing.”

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Technology Movie Internet Games 165

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Training Magazine Presentation: Gamification of Learning & Instruction from Karl Kapp. Fall 2011 Training Industry Quarterly Article: Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. July 2012 T&D Article: Games, Gamification and the Quest for Interactive Learning. Wonderful Chicago skyline as seen from the river.

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Simulations Resources Conference Comparison 200

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Over at Wired I found a great article on the ability of authors to self-publish their own books directly to the Sony eReader. You can check out Sony's eReader web site and see all the offerings they have in terms of books, newspaper and magazines. So an interesting development and puts it in greater competition with the Kindle.

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eBook Apple Director Authoring 100

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

In the article, Play This Game and Win a Job! You can learn more these classification in the article Types of Structural Gamification but here is the list and more seem to be emerging all the time. Additionally, I have found gamification to be of interest in a variety of settings. Game-based. Competition-based. Progression-based.

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Gamification Games Social Networks vendor 100

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

According to one article, one clever thing that Pfizer did to promote the use of Pfizerpedia was to create a series of small slide shows to indicte how Pfizerpedia would work. (as Here is an article from InformationWeek on the topic. Here is an article from ON Magazine called Enterprise Collaboration 2.0: tags: web_2.0

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Social Networks Web Case Study Wiki 124

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APRIL 7, 2010

ASTD's April T&D Magazine published an article I wrote with Tony O'Driscoll called " Designing Virtual Immersive Environments " The article is based on the book Learning in 3D and outlines some considerations for learning in 3D and ways to think about the exciting new environment for learning and collaboration.

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Slideshare Stock ASTD Social Networks 100

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APRIL 21, 2012

Next, New York Time’s bestselling author Kevin Kruse told us how articles appearing within the last year in notable publications such as BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune and even the Harvard Business review are talking about how gamification is impacting marketing, service and employee satisfaction (notice training seems to be absent.).

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Gamification Blogging Instructional Instruction 264

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JULY 2, 2007

This morning I opened up the July 2007 issue of ASTD's Magazine, T&D and found that Paula Ketter has just reviewed Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. In fact, I was reading the Philadelphia Inquirer a few weekends ago and they had an article on retiring air traffic controllers. You can read the abstract here.

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Games Instant Messaging iPod ASTD 100

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DECEMBER 4, 2006

Thus an article I co-wrote with the editor of eLearn Magazine Lisa Neal. The article, Learning to Blog, Blogging to Learn , describes how a formal structure can facilitate informal learning and provides guidelines to any person who is suddenly asked to "blog" their expertise.

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Informal Learning Informal Blogging Write Blog 100

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MAY 6, 2008

An article at MSNBC.com indicates that in many ways and with many technologies we are getting closer and closer to entering The Matrix.a Here are some quotes from the article Moving closer to a 'Matrix'-style virtual world. The ideas and concepts of the widely popular movie The Matrix are closer than many people think.

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Simulations Virtual World Oracle Movie 100

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FEBRUARY 4, 2007

In this month's T&D Magazine published by ASTD , I have a number of quotes in the Need for Speed article by Michael Laff. In the article, I (and others) talk about the drivers of rapid e-learning and how the design aspect of rapid e-learning should not be compromised. that, while designed for kids, are easy to navigate.

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Webcast Rapid eLearning ASTD Compliance Training 100

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

In late 2004 and early 2005, I did a series of articles for eLearn Magazine on the vendor selection process covering vendor selection writing the RFP and other elements of the process. Here are links to those articles. He is very open to input and ideas on this subject and, really, any other.

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Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS Resources 100

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MARCH 19, 2010

My post Nine Information Alternatives to the Now Defunct Training Magazine was number one in elearninglearning's Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March post. My presentation with Tony O'Driscoll at the Virtual Worlds's Best Practices in Education conference is available on Treet.tv

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Meridian Kaplan Simulations Virtual World 100

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MARCH 5, 2008

Here is a piece from a software review I did for the March/April issue of APICS Magazine. Or this article about it in the New York Times. In the future this. May morph into this. There is a Second Life factory called the Double Happiness Jeans factory. The factory specializes in customized jeans.

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Second Life Photoshop Virtual World Adobe 100

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Let's start with some figures from a Money Magazine commentary called Blame boards of directors for financial mess Former Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal received total compensation of more than $91 million for 2006. In another article by Money, they reported that Washington Mutual's Kerry Killinger will retire with $5.2

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Compliance Training Stock Attitudes Compliance 100

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JANUARY 29, 2008

This drawing is from 1957 and shows how even then, ole Walt Disney himself, was thinking about maximizing content and reusing it where ever possible. Take for example a simple flow from Disneyland to TV.

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Wiki RSS Write Blog Images 100

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APRIL 21, 2012

Next, New York Time’s bestselling author Kevin Kruse told us how articles appearing within the last year in notable publications such as BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune and even the Harvard Business review are talking about how gamification is impacting marketing, service and employee satisfaction (notice training seems to be absent.).

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Gamification Blogging Instructional Instruction 100

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JANUARY 10, 2007

” I have done some previous writing on the topic of rapid e-learning: Learning at Byte Speed Speed is King: Rapid Creation and Deployment of Enterprise E-Learning Solutions Also, call it fate or good timing, I have just been interviewed on this very topic for the February issue of T&D Magazine. In the meantime, here is a sneak preview.

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Rapid eLearning Case Study Write Blog Instructional 100

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

My to-do list contains items like: Write assessment report for DPW Write article for magazine Meet with students Invoice clients Conduct training needs analysis Create game treatment I have to learn some things to complete the list but this is not the same as a "to-learn" list. The products the knowledge worker produces are work.

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Compliance Training Knowledge Worker Big Question Write Blog 100

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MAY 1, 2008

For example, someone born in 1994 was born the same year that Newsweek Magazine named the Internet "Person of the Year." First of all, some definitions are in order, Digital Native is someone who has grown up with technology.

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Digital Design Big Question ASTD 100

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NOVEMBER 20, 2007

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