Kapp Notes

JANUARY 14, 2013

Program managers and procurement personnel should insist that game developers clearly demonstrate how the design of a game will provide interactive experiences that support properly designed instructional objectives (see for example, Gagn6 & Briggs, 1979; Merrill, 1983; 1997 for guidance on the proper design of instructional objectives).

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Summary Games Instructional Instruction 278

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Kapp: Can you tell me a little about your company–some background? With a creative team of over 90 developers, designers and animators, MediaLab is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD), Microsoft Gold Certified Solution Developer and is also Autodesk AutoCAD Certified. Lozicki: You’d be surprised.

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Solution Conversation Augmented Reality Microsoft 184

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 31, 2017

The company, Ambient Insight (Now Metaari ) publishes quantitative syndicated reports that break out revenues by customer segment (demand-side) and by product category (supply-side) based on thier industry-leading learning technology taxonomy and our proprietary Evidence-based Research Methodology (ERM). Is the Learning Industry Dead?

Instructional Design 130

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Cognitive 130

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

John is the Chief Technology Officer for Trivantis as well as being one of the Co-Founders of the company. And before that, John was Co-Founder and Lead Engineer at BocaSoft, a company that created various software utilities for the OS/2 operating system. The other day I had a chance to catch up with John Blackmon.

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Trivantis Conversation Lectora CourseMill 100

Kapp Notes

JULY 29, 2014

The other day I had a chance to catch up with Duncan Lennox, the CEO and co-founder of a fascinating company called Qstream. Qstream is a mobile sales enablement and analytics company spun off from Harvard University to bring a unique and scientifically-proven knowledge retention and analytics methodology to a wider audience.

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Conversation Analytics Sales Blended Learning 198

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

” While the book provides content related to the design of games, the development of games and integration of game elements into e-learning, it is not a programming book and neither is Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. First a caveat, I don’t know what kind of game you want to develop. The short answer is “no.”

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Games Program Simulations Create 253

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 6, 2016

This company is a web-to-print game publishing company that offers a print on demand game publishing service. Using the latest web technology, TGC has developed an online publishing platform that simplifies the design and manufacturing processes related to tabletop games. The Game Crafter, LLC. MakePlayingCards.

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Resources Games Create Templates 118

Kapp Notes

MARCH 10, 2015

The company has many direct implications to the world of learning and development and they’ve created a really interesting simulation program. Kapp: You are co-founder of a company called Discovery Machine, can you tell me a little about the company? In developing RESITE, we focused on ease of use.

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Simulations Conversation Cognitive Virtual World 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The summit was a wonderful blend of international speakers, representatives from some of the largest learning companies and organizations in China and ATD leaders. The summit was hosted by ATD (Association for Talent Development) and HRoot which is the largest human resource media company in China. her company is Seven In Learn.

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DDI Sun Blended Learning Gamification 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Her niche is learning technologies and she has recently partnered with a company called Exult, based in Pune, India. Kapp: You’ve recently chosen to partner with a company out of India called Exult, why did you choose to partner with this organization? Stephanie’s role will be to represent Exult in North America.

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Authoring Tools Conversation Templates vendor 100

Kapp Notes

JUNE 9, 2014

Juliette is the CEO and Founder of Growth Engineering a UK-based company. It is the route towards self-development and career-progression. Kapp: Can you tell us a little about your company, Growth Engineering. And to develop and grow, we need learning spaces that inspire learning, where it’s engaging to learn.

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Conversation LMS Engineering Movie 124

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 18, 2014

” He is founder of such technology companies at Tesla and SpaceX. And without humans to train for new jobs, no Learning and Development professionals will be needed. Are we really aware of what we are doing? Elon Musk is no “conspiracy nut.” Are we listening to what he is saying? Is he the only one with this concern?

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Association Video Job Research 184

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

When I was at Learning2015 , I met some wonderful people and one of the people I had the privilege of spending some time with was Louise Pasterfield of the UK company Sponge, UK. Last year, we were named Elearning Development Company of the Year at the Elearning Awards. Dealing with a co-worker in game developed by Sponge UK.

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Director Conversation Compliance Training Management 100

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 27, 2012

Interview training developed with the Thinking Worlds Tool. While developing a serious game can be a complex, time consuming and difficult process, adding game elements is less complex, requires less programming and, when done correct, can be just as engaging. What it requires is thinking like a game developer.

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Gamification Simulations Training Train 277

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 6, 2010

There have been a number of interesting development in term of Google and social game purchases and game related initiatives. Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games* Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming company Zynga. The deal is worth a reported $182 million.

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Google Social Networks Games MySpace 155

Kapp Notes

APRIL 9, 2012

It looks like EduNeering, the leader in compliance-based learning has been acquired by UL, a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment, Life & Health, Knowledge Services and Verification Services. Looks like it is going to be a perfect fit.

Kaplan 157

Kaplan Compliance Training Compliance Global 157

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Ayogo is an award-winning serious games company that uses game design to educate and motivate healthy behavior. So many products and companies to select from should be a good thing- and it is. The Atlas is a dynamic, searchable database of the products and companies within the e-learning industry. What is the eLearning Atlas

Industry 157

Industry Authoring Tools Trivantis Lectora 157

Kapp Notes

APRIL 24, 2014

It will be in interactive story-based presentation using an audience polling system to cast the audience members in the role of Learning and Development Professional/Detective. Meet “The Boss” Smartest person in the company. .” It is on Wed, May 7 from 8:30 am – 9:45 am and is session W101 located in Ballroom A.

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ASTD Poll Games Gamification 195

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

23% of Executive Development is delivered online. 76% of companies do not use podcasting as a method of training. 51% of companies do not use application simulation tools for learning. Average hours of training per employee=40.1 (up up 9 from 2009). 32% of training budgets decreased in 2010.

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Compliance Training Statistics Industry Simulations 157

Kapp Notes

MARCH 16, 2011

Andrew’s company, Designing Digitally, Inc. develops these training simulations using virtual worlds as a platform to deliver the content material. We just finished a large scale one year development to create a browser-based virtual campus tour that is being used for admissions recruiting.

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Conversation Simulations Virtual World Augmented Reality 194

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

John has been in the L&D space for his entire career, and joined a company called mLevel almost 2 years ago now. Kapp: You’ve been in the Learning and Development space for a long time, what is the most profound change you’ve seen over the course of your career? What is the company about?

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Conversation Compliance Training Case Study Metrics 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2017

The other day I had an opportunity to ask Yury Uskov of iSpring a few questions about his company and the future of eLearning. Yury founded the company, iSpring, in 2005 and today iSpring tools are used by over 40,000 customers in 155 countries, including 148 of the Fortune 500 companies, and the world’s top universities.

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Authoring Tools Conversation Flash to HTML5 Conversion Diversity Training 50

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark discusses a Office 2007 Screen One way is through a unique offering by the Training video production company - The 8.45 The company creates 15 minutes of education in a video and screen shot format that can be viewed when convenient for the learner.

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Training Train Module Sound 162

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 26, 2015

Rick and Dawn are part the internet boradcasting division of RELATE Corporation, a well known media creation and enterprise eLearning development company. You can visit them here. RELATECASTS is a series of video podcasts, or vidcasts, covering tech, social media, digital media, eLearning/Training and more topics to come.

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Gamification Conversation Social Media Corporate eLearning 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 11, 2011

On company that has capitalized on this idea is Jellyvision the makers of the popular trivia game You Don’t Know Jack which was first released in 1995. Jellyvison, the developers of the game purposefully set out to create a computer-human interface that is realistic and fun. The three main principles are: ? Maintaining Pacing. ?

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Conversation Games Interactive Version 252

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 4, 2016

It seems to me that the year 2015 was the year that gamification got “real” for learning and development. It still has a way to go but a number of instances seem to point to a more concrete and focused effort on making gamification work in learning and development and the spreading of the concept.

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Gamification Games Simulations Lecture 80

Kapp Notes

APRIL 30, 2013

These two students have started an innovative company called Sploops.com which is for all you sports fans out there to give a 15 second rant about your favorite sports team. The projects range from mobile development efforts to online learning. They are in a closed beta now but ready to launch very soon.

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RFP Director Simulations Sun 189

Kapp Notes

MARCH 15, 2012

Because we want innovative thinkers who can develop new ideas and new concepts. Like putting a brochure online to advertise your company (in the old days of the web) at first it’s novel or even dismissed. Why do we want educational reform and flipped classrooms as part of the reform? We want innovation.

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Innovation Classroom Education Lecture 264

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 14, 2015

2K Learning is born out of 6 years of work on a National Science Foundation project which has since morphed into a full fledged company offering innovative play/make curriculum designed to instill a love of science, engineering and math into middle school learners. Today is an exciting day with the announcement of the launch of 2K Learning.

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Games Innovation Project Twitter 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 13, 2015

2K Learning is born out of 6 years of work on a National Science Foundation project which has since morphed into a full fledged company offering innovative play/make curriculum designed to instill a love of science, engineering and math into middle school learners. Today is an exciting day with the announcement of the launch of 2K Learning.

Games 100

Games Innovation Project Twitter 100

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Since that first meeting, we’ve co-presented on the topic of evidence-based training, worked together when he was a CEO of one of his many companies, collaborated on parts of his ground-breaking website/blog eLearning Guru and frequently meet up at speaking engagements. Want to go work for giant XYZ company in a year?

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Conversation Authoring Calendar Social Networks 0

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 5, 2012

KK: How do you think “Big Data” is going to impact the learning and development field? KK: What is the most important message you that learning and development professionals will take away from reading your book? Here is part two of a great discussion with Reuben Tozman about his book, Learning On Demand.

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Metrics Conversation ROI Sales 180

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

As a faculty member and the assistant director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies I am proud of the accomplishments our students have achieved and of the partnerships developed with local organizations, companies and social service groups that I have helped to build over the past 12+ years.

Instructional Design 105

Instructional Design Community Instructional Instruction 105

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 5, 2010

Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation Seeks Education Founders Here is some news for anyone thinking of starting an education company. About Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation Part school and part business accelerator, Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation is a new approach to developing the next generation of high-growth firms.

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Education Enterprise Director Innovation 197

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 31, 2015

The other day, I had a wonderful Skype conversation with Álvaro Mas, business developer at Hooptap. Mas: Hooptap conceptualizes and develops technological solutions based on our gamification platform with the goal of engaging, activating and retaining users, fans, customers, employees, students and TV or mass media audiences.

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Conversation Gamification Skype Integrate 100

Kapp Notes

APRIL 19, 2010

This will enable faster development and subsequently lowers the development costs of immersive simulations for designers. He added: “It’s our hope that with each new release, we make it easier for content developers to create simulations more efficiently and more cost effectively and that is exactly what we believe Thinking Worlds 3.3

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Industry Simulations Authoring Tools Gartner 157

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

So now that I have added to my LinkeIn Profile that I am a co-founder of the company 2KLearning a number of people have asked some important questions about the company and about the Kickstarter Campaign so I wanted to take some time to address some of those questions. What does 2KLearning Do? What Problem are you Addressing?

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Engineering Standards Games Problem 100