Kapp Notes

APRIL 24, 2013

Had a great time last night with the wonder folks from the ASTD Mid-NJ chapter, lots of great questions and interactions. Game Development Software ThinkingWorlds (3D Software). Raptivity(Games Pack). 2011) A meta-analytic examination of the instructional effectiveness of computer-based simulation games. Enspire Learning.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 19, 2014

We’ve heard it again and again: instructional designers are clamoring to add game design to their skill sets. Managers are perking up too; they need their teams to develop the skills needed to bring game design “in-house.” The course is part of the eLearning Guild’s highly regarded eLearning Guild Academy.

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Games eLearning Guild Design Online 197

Web Courseworks

JUNE 4, 2009

I’ll confess that I may not have been at the ASTD conference every day this past week, but I do have some impressions of the event I’d like to share. I sensed some of the same vibrancy of those heady days when eLearning exhibits reached several stories high. ” Tags: ASTD Elaine Biech Game Based Learning.

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Learning Rebels

AUGUST 20, 2014

Allow me to clarify – poorly designed learning does not discriminate, it is all-encompassing, from classroom to eLearning to webinars to workbooks. Sure we’re all grown up adults, but a lot of L&D people are new to the game, remember “Accidental Trainers ” ? Being a Learning Professional in the 21st century is hard work. .

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Association eLearning

JULY 1, 2013

If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. The truth is, learner engagement is not easy to crack, if it were, there wouldn’t be so much debate about games for training, using rewards, and points to motivate learners or the like. Why content is king.

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Games Learner Social Networks Gamification 178

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

I can now see how Level 2 can be used to evaluate role-based eLearning and instructor-led training. Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. Rob Mueller: Great post on using games as a training device. Level 3: Behavior. Properly d.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 14, 2013

Game Development Software ThinkingWorlds (3D Software). Raptivity(Games Pack). Trainees’ gain higher confidence in applying learning from a training session to their job when the training is simulation game based. 2011) A meta-analytic examination of the instructional effectiveness of computer-based simulation games.

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ASTD Simulations Resources Comparison 150

Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

That was the main thrust of the Game On! Gamification Strategies for Instructional Designers and Trainers skills seminar I led at the recent ASTD Chicagoland Chapter meeting at the DePaul University School for New Learning on September 18 th. Gamification is revolutionizing the field of learning and development.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 22, 2013

Had a great time last night with the wonder folks from the ASTD DC Metro chapter, a full house with lots of great questions and interactions. Met a number of new friends, saw an old college classmate, Dara Nicholls, and ran into Richard Blunt, author of Do Serious Games Work? A well played game by both teams. Enspire Learning.

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ASTD Simulations Authoring Tools Comparison 119

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are – a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. What Makes a Learning Game?

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Games Resources Simulations PDF 280

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are - a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. Marc Prensky - Digital Game-Based Learning.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 20, 2013

Welcome one and all to the wrap up of the ASTD international conference and expo. Why hasn’t ASTD figured out how to do things right. Once again, ASTD dropped the ball. Apparently there must be a huge demand for scalping ASTD badges or hood winking ASTD for access into their show. Leapfactor. Map on the app.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 21, 2013

Back for another installment of the ASTD international trade show. In this amazing episode we find out that not all mobile devices are really mobile (according to a vendor), the new six letter word is Tin Can, mobile only products still exist, my game is your game and ASTD did not offer a breakfast for us. Trends Day Two.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference in San Jose, California. There's a lot of cool stuff from game design that we can apply. We can make stuff look like games, but it doesn't have the fundamental elements that make games engaging. Raph Koster -- "in games learning is the drug" in A Theory of Fun.

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Cognitive Games Create Design 237

cogentys

MAY 28, 2014

Is it worth the time for sales trainers to join the ASTD? It’s time for retail sales trainers to improve their game and my advice to you is to join ASTD pronto. . Yes, and you should join soon! click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 11, 2012

With great anticipation I entered the huge expo at ASTD International show earlier this week. Some angle to game based learning – either an app or actual product. If you think they used the ASTD app and wrote down some notes, I think you would be surprised. The game I saw was for time management and personal productivity.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. Rob Mueller: Great post on using games as a training device. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer. It is amazing ho.

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Evalution Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning 160

eLearning 24-7

MAY 28, 2013

It’s the yearly review of the ASTD International Conference and Expo. First off, this part is going to sound like I’m bashing ASTD, and perhaps to a degree I am. If you were a volunteer to ASTD, this is not about you – it is solely about ASTD. ASTD bags – always nice. Read all about it.

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Instructional designers and eLearning managers can learn something from Cammy Bean’s book. Here’s a question for the eLearning managers out there: How many members of your instructional design team got involved in the field by accident? There are plenty of other little nuggets for eLearning managers, too.

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Instructional Design Blended Learning Instructional Instruction 185

Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

That was the main thrust of the Game On! Gamification Strategies for Instructional Designers and Trainers skills seminar I led at the recent ASTD Chicagoland Chapter meeting at the DePaul University School for New Learning on September 18 th. Gamification is revolutionizing the field of learning and development.

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Gamification Simulations Blended Learning Association LMS 138

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Accelerated Learning attempts to change this imbalance by including activities that trigger the other intelligences, for example, Brain Gym® , games that involve movement, MindMapping® tools, songs and raps, and word cards. Rob Mueller: Great post on using games as a training device. Jim: Glad you enjoyed the post, Liam! Properly d.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 140

Kapp Notes

MAY 6, 2012

May 10: Brent Schlenker Elearning Development. Enid Crystal of the New York Chapter of ASTD started off the week by summarizing my in-person visit to the joint NYU Higher Ed and eLearning SIG joint meeting. The posting is great with several clever examples of using game-elements to enhance instruction.

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Gamification Blogging ASTD Articulate 223

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 30, 2013

Okay, the first day of ASTD TK13 has wrapped up – at least from the expo side of the house. Let’s jump right in for the game action. Thursday: Recap day two of the ASTD TK13 show, including expo. Excuse any strange text breaks – writing from the WordPress iOS app. TOUCHDOWN. Which CB does not.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, January 05, 2009 On Games and eLearning As eLearning designers, your goal is (hopefully) to make the learning experience engaging. And the best way to make it fun is to make it a game. Yes, yes, yes!

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 30, 2012

TODAY”S BLOG STOP: April 30: Enid Crystal New York ASTD Chapter Blog. Next Karl Grieb of the ASTD Philadelphia eLearning SIG provides a description of the content of the book. He describes the break down of the elements of games and points out the section describing ADDIE versus Scrum as a development process.

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Gamification Blogging ASTD Compliance Training 154

Tony Karrer

APRIL 20, 2010

I received some interesting questions (and you know I love questions) from someone doing eLearning industry market research around trends in simulations, games, social learning. Yes, we will continue to see lots of professional skill development via off-the-shelf eLearning solutions. I really don’t see them going away soon.

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Simulations Trends Games Social 123

Kapp Notes

APRIL 16, 2012

We have just started an exciting blog book tour as ASTD and I venture on a 25 stop blog book tour for the ASTD co-published book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. The book is available at the ASTD Book Store. Or check it out on Amazon.

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Gamification Blogging ASTD Instructional 133

Learning Visions

APRIL 9, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Focus on casual video games. Looked at existing games and saw issues. Poll: Do you play any of these?

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Games Enspire Authoring Tools Case Study 124

Kapp Notes

APRIL 23, 2012

April 24: Karl Grieb ASTD Philadelphia Chapter. April 25: Webinar Presentation for Houston ASTD Chapter “What Research Tells Us about Games, Gamification and Learning” Join the webinar. April 26: Debbie Richards Take an e-Learning Break And a live appearance by Karl at the NY ASTD Chapters combined SIG Meeting.

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Gamification ASTD Instructional Instruction 133

Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2014

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Enterprise Knowledge Custom eLearning Development Case Study 177

Kapp Notes

APRIL 16, 2012

We have just started an exciting blog book tour as ASTD and I venture on a 25 stop blog book tour for the ASTD co-published book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. The book is available at the ASTD Book Store. Or check it out on Amazon.

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Gamification Blogging ASTD Instructional 113

Usable Learning

AUGUST 19, 2014

Anyway, I typically keep a list of resources when I teach the ATD (ASTD) Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate, and I keep thinking that I should put the list somewhere. So here it is: Blogs et al: Cathy Moore — her blog and The Elearning Blueprint. Connie Malamed’s Elearning Coach Website.

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Design eLearning Strategy Brain eLearning 97

Kapp Notes

APRIL 23, 2012

TODAY’S STOP:April 27: Connie Malamed The eLearning Coach : Are you a Gamification Wizard. April 24: Karl Grieb ASTD Philadelphia Chapter. April 25: Webinar Presentation for Houston ASTD Chapter “What Research Tells Us about Games, Gamification and Learning” Join the webinar.

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Gamification ASTD Instructional Instruction 100

eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 10, 2014

Like most eLearning gurus, you probably have made a few eLearning resolutions. Some will keep or may not keep up on their eLearning resolutions. While most of us can see the application of this logic when applied to weight loss, or our finances, it might be less clear when trying to apply this to eLearning.

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Custom eLearning Development eLearning Guild eLearning Stock 113

Kapp Notes

APRIL 30, 2012

April 30: Enid Crystal ASTD New York Chapter Blog. Next Karl Grieb of the ASTD Philadelphia eLearning SIG provides a description of the content of the book. He describes the break down of the elements of games and points out the section describing ADDIE versus Scrum as a development process. Play the game.

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Gamification Compliance Training Blogging ASTD 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 22, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, March 22, 2007 Games vs. Gaming The topic that kept me thinking late last night: the difference between games and gaming; between people who play computer games and so-called gamers. I am not a gamer.

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Games Moodle Instructional Design Simulations 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 17, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Video Games, Tire Swings and Learning My almost six-year old son LOVES video and computer games: Wii, Nintendo 64, computer, my iPod Touch. Son was struggling with a certain game for quite a while.

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