Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Over so often I get asked what fundamentals of game design apply to the design of learning games – a very difficult question to answer that. In my opinion, every sort of principle ever used in the design of commercial video games applies to the creation of digital learning games as well. more about that here.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 29, 2011

Rather, it has to be learned through experience. Now, experiential learning is great. I think it is safe to say that anyone who has touched a hot stove (no matter how many times your Mom said not to) learned after only one experience not to do it again. That would NOT be a good day at work.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2014

tags: images free creativecommons. Wiki by Kevin Wilcoxon with lengthy articles on learning and training. Categories are foundations, teaching online, course development, and the future (including references to the Serious e-Learning Manifesto). tags: freeware e-learning scenarios branching. eLearning Wiki.

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Usable Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I follow a whole lot of e-Learning blogs, and they typically cover topics like web 2.0, social media for learning, e-Learning technology, the state of the industry, etc. Once in a while, they do tackle interesting, chewy e-Learning design questions (but not as often as I could wish for). Work on your boss fight.

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2009

Video & Audio – You can play video or audio in HTML 5 WITHOUT any plug-in required (like Flash or Silverlight], simply by using the new audio and video markup tags. Flash (or perhaps Silverlight in near future) would still be useful for developing high-end interactive courses and games based learning. So is Flash Dead?

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2009

I found a very readable article today on the use of blogs to promote critical reflection and community of practice for language teachers. It's good to see that research is being published into the serious educational/teacher professional development aspects of blogging. Reference: Yang, S.-H.

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Janet Clarey

MARCH 14, 2010

Longtime blogger Jim Groom , an Instructional Technology Specialist and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington , wrote about giving credit where credit is due (in traditional academic journals) when it comes to using ideas authored in “unconventional academic media,&# i.e. blogging, etc. Hybrid George. Shame on me.

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Janet Clarey

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Corporate E-learning (This one’s in pretty good shape.). Other E-learning (See what I mean? Tags: Uncategorized Blogs lazy Organization RSS. Ricky: We’ve got to use our brains. Lucy: Well, let’s see. Ricky: You stay out of this. Seriously, it’s no wonder my feed reader is overwhelming right now.

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2009

Video & Audio – You can play video or audio in HTML 5 WITHOUT any plug-in required (like Flash or Silverlight], simply by using the new audio and video markup tags. Flash (or perhaps Silverlight in near future) would still be useful for developing high-end interactive courses and games based learning. So is Flash Dead?

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. 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. It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2008. What Makes a Learning Game?

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. 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. It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2008. What Makes a Learning Game?

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Do Serious Games Work? Some studies help answer some of the questions now surrounding serious games-or games whose primary purpose is something other than entertainment, such as military training, education, physical therapy-and determine the relationship between the use of video games and learning as measured on standardized tests.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 25, 2010

Ever so often I get asked what’s so great about games and learning using games. While in this context it doesn’t directly tie to eLearning, I felt this tiny video would be interesting to post to our blog. Related posts: Patterns at Play – Fundamental to Games Our Favorite Game Design Blogs 5 Good TED Talks On Games.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 8, 2023

Nevertheless, mastering these programs might involve a challenging learning process. However, they may also come with a higher price tag making them suited only for those serious about their publication game. They may also take more time and effort to produce an eBook, as their usage is for multiple business areas.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Trawling through my feeds earlier this weeks I came across this link-up post by Ricard Nantel over at the Workplace Learning Blog pointing to a blog post on Harvard Business Publishing about six social media trends. Social business becomes serious play. Worth a quick recount: 1. Social media begins to look less social.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 19, 2010

The presentation is meant for beginners, and will help them draw lines between simulations and games from a learning and learner experience perspective. At the end of the session, I’m hoping the attendees will have newer perspectives on how they might use games and simulation or game-like elements in their learning design and solutions.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Company executives have a “blindspot” for the language of learning. Given this blindspot, Clark Quinn asks the critical question that all trainers and learning specialists should be asking themselves. He writes in his blog : The problem, then, is where do you come in? So too with training and learning in organizations. . .

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Creating Successful m-Learning Strategy – Part 3. Third and final post of the series on creating successful m-learning strategy, based on the mLearnCon workshop, this post discusses about the tools and techniques used for developing mLearning courses. Upside Blog iPhone App Is Here– Download Today.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I agree and have blogged about this issue previously. Retention will become a serious problem for any company seeking high performance. Learning opportunities have been postponed or eliminated entirely. See my blog post on this topic. Times article. Opportunities for advancement have been delayed.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Marcia Conner & Tony Bingham’s book The New Social Learning is, quite simply, a must-read if you are in either responsible for learning in, or running, a business. If you’ve followed this blog at all, you know that social learning is the key to competitiveness and survival. Tags: social.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 31, 2008

They call this the “User Community&# around a site; there’s also communities around tags. Here’s Site Community for my blog; you can enter your own URL there to see your user community. If you’re more interested in the people than the pages and tags, the People Search By Site is a better tool.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 21, 2010

But on a serious note, my oldest son is just learning to drive and providing him with a realistic models of driving situations with information about proper driving behavior is a good thing and something I want to encourage so he gains knowledge of how to be a good driver as quickly as possible. Tags: Content Guide.

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Upside Learning

MAY 4, 2010

Earlier this morning, I was trawling through my feeds and came across this interesting post on Cathy Moore’s blog. You can have learning that’s just as engaging without busting the bank, choose wisely. Media choice is often (not always) what determines a large part of eLearning development cost. A Follow-up Post.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Bloomfield Situated Learning in Virtual Worlds: The Learning Ecology of Second Life by Elisabeth R. Learning Archetypes as tools of Cybergogy for a 3D Educational Landscape by Lesley Scopes (who also contributed to the book, great detailed use of the learning archetypes.) by Robert J. Pursel and Keith D.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

It’s everywhere – these varied conversations about learning games and the spending of millions of dollars to further the state of art in learning games. This new audience will demand more engaging learning and the organization needs to provide it. I’ll be adding that as a comment to this post as soon it’s up on the site.

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Origin Learning

JANUARY 4, 2016

But what then what does this have to do with the world of learning? Half-a-century later, in 2015, who could have imagined that a company would communicate a serious subject like compliance using this tune and genre of music to convey the message to its stakeholders? Is it blended learning or social learning ? Compliance!

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Kapp Notes

MAY 24, 2010

Learn more about their 3D solution here. As announced first on this blog, ProtonMedia announced a strategic partnership with RWD on heals of another announcement of a strategic partnership with Kaplan-EduNeering. Yes 3D Learning – it’s looking like you have a bright future ahead. She ends her post with Improved performance.

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Matrix

OCTOBER 5, 2016

From trivial uses like games and silly pastime activities, to more serious ones, like monitoring body functions for sick people, or learning new languages — and everything in between — mobile apps have conquered all the smartphones. And what better way of career growth there is besides continuous learning at work ?

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 17, 2009

Soon after I posted These are Not Serious Games on the blog and as a discussion on Linked-In , there was a flurry of comments over a couple of days that quickly covered some thoughts about Serious Games. Another major distinction between ‘casual’ and serious games is that serious games work on the logic of cause and effect.

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If you had time to evaluate the research on learning styles, what would you conclude? Here’s what four cognitive psychologists concluded: “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing.

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Ed App

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Take advantage of EdApp’s authoring tool to import these topics into beautiful, engaging, and effective e-learning modules. This personalized learning platform offers top-notch gamification tools that can turn your training into a smartphone game, improving knowledge retention among your electrical workers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This was my favourite talk, and I will blog about it in more depth.). Melinda Gates crystallised 3 lessons that non-profit organisations can learn from Coca Cola. Sunny Forsyth exemplified how passion can solve some of the world’s most serious problems. Tags: conference 1-liners ideas ted tedx tedxcanberra.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 31, 2009

I’ve been seeing a lot more social media icons on websites these days, and you may have noticed that I’ve recently added a few to this blog. Well, I figure that if I’m serious about the use of social media for collaborative learning and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, then I should do what I can to encourage participation.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I decided to answer the four questions in blog postings. So here is the answer to the first question which is, “What are the key advantages of Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations?&#. Learning outcomes presented in a game context with specific missions/goals/tasks. Bandura’s (1986) social learning theory.

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BigTinCan

MARCH 27, 2020

Sales enablement is often defined by its culture of tight alignment, cross-departmental collaboration, and some serious organizational planning. Here, we’ll discuss the essential ingredients that make up a powerful enablement stack — including a ugmented reality sales tools, a content tagging strategy , smart catalogs, and version control.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The discussion on ITFORUM this week has been deeply about mobile learning (if you’re into mlearning, it’s worth checking in!). I think a PDA sized device for data capture (audio and video for instance) is more plausible than a tablet, and vice versa for serious content consumption and creation. Tags: mobile.

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Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 29, 2007

To get some perspective, I went back to the wisdom of an ‘ancient’ text (paper-based, of course) written by Mortimer Adler in 1940 (a bestseller no less) entitled, simply enough, How to Read a Book.Yes, I know, blogs are not books, — or magazines or newspapers — but wedo read (and often listen) to them and want something from them aswell.

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