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Server-Based Instructional Design Tool

Kapp Notes

Todd Osborn and Gabe Baumann from Landmark ASP Solutions presented a great tool for collaboratively developing a course using a server-based development platform. The tool allows subject matter experts scatter around the globe to comment on the course and provides great tracking of information as a course is being developed.

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Why an Instructional Design Degree from Bloomsburg University ROCKS!

Kapp Notes

In Advanced ID class, students are formed into a team, introduced to an actual client (local hospital, school, manufacturing organization, police department) and create a finished instructional module for that organization, complete with pre- and post- testing of a sampling of the learners. this happens for online and on campus students).

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A Conversation with Louise Pasterfield, Managing Director/CEO of Sponge UK

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Louise showed me some wonderful elearning solutions they’ve developed, shared with me her secrets for hiring good talent and provide great insights into the design and development of engaging instruction. So IDs need to think in new ways when creating gamified elearning modules, actively research and play games themselves to learn.

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Tell Me a Story

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This year I met Stephen Denning , author of several books on story telling or as Stephen calls it "the art and discipline of business narrative." He spoke about the importance of creating good "stories" to persuade your listeners and how a story can provide the momentum to take action when facts, statistics and figures fall short of the mark.

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What Games Can Teach Us about “Communicating” with Learners

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Recently I came across the paper “ Learning from Games: HCI Design Innovation in Entertainment Software &# from the folks at The Interaction Lab at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. The paper describes several ways that ideas from game interfaces can be provide clear benefits to users in non-game applications. Pinelle, D.,

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Visit with Calhoun Wick

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Last week I had the opportunity to visit with Calhoun Wick, author of the book The Six Disciplines of Break Through Learning. The "Big Idea" of Cal is that training doesn't stop after the course or e-learning module is delivered, instead, it is just beginning. Cal Wick and I pose for a picture at the Fort Hill Company in DE.