Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 10, 2017

Unfortunately, some corporate training programs struggle to even provide an adequate user experience. They will show how the design principles of the increasingly mobile web can make training more effective and improve learner adoption rates. And while mobile learning adoption is increasing, many organizations still lag behind.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2016

It means that companies who are more conservative—who are the “let’s wait and see how this shakes out” kind of decision-makers—will likely be ready to jump on board soon. Companies have used Knowledge Guru as a way to prepare people for learning or to reinforce learning. Where does Knowledge Guru fit in?

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Send your game out to learners after they have completed an eLearning course or instructor-led session to help them remember content covered in the training. This could include many things, such as a series of emails or even a collection of advertisements placed throughout your company intranet site.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

You also might include links to the game and to the native app within an existing training portal or intranet. Send your game out to learners after they have completed an eLearning course or instructor-led session to help them remember content covered in the training. Use reporting and adapt the training.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 16, 2017

Unfortunately, some corporate training sessions struggle to even provide an adequate user experience. This session shows how the design principles of the increasingly mobile web can make training more effective and improve learner adoption rates. Disengaged associates and managers create disengaging companies. Learn more.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 3, 2013

We’re on a mission to educate the Instructional Design community and the decision makers in Training and Development about game based learning and its true potential. It highlights a very important report conducted by global research company Markets and Markets. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. Billion by 2018.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 23, 2015

Many companies I work with have large PR campaigns surrounding new game-based learning initiatives. Organizations who require game play, while still offering great prizes and incentives, are more successful than companies who leave it up to decide if they will play or not. What leader would be happy about that? appeared first on.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2015

They say the devil’s in the details, and in the training world “details” often means “implementation.” Fortunately, many organizations have already successfully implemented games into their training. Or what if the roll-out gets botched because no one can figure out how to log in?

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Lots of companies take their top performing sales reps and turn them into sales managers at some point in their careers. Sales training is a big budget, high visibility endeavor in many organizations. The training support of sales managers needs to be carefully considered. Can’t reach their busy reps .

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 27, 2013

We’re on a mission to educate the Instructional Design community and the decision makers in Training and Development about game based learning and its true potential. The larger simulation-based learning market, which includes corporate training games, is expected to grow even more from $2.3 We are setting out to change that.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

I was speaking to a client the other day who said only 10% of her workforce completes the training they are supposed to take on the LMS. She thinks training completion is low because the content isn’t engaging and wanted to know if a learning game could fix it. A strategy that drives measurable results? Know your audience.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

McDonalds gave two devices to each store and had new hires train on basic food prep and service tasks as part of their orientation training. Training time was cut in half, and that adds up to major savings for a company with high employee turnover. million USD to develop a Nintendo DS game for front-line staff.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

That’s the now, but the good news is that people are at least trying to come up with different solutions that are more game-like as opposed to boring training material and simple recall games. This is why virtual reality could be especially beneficial for medical device and healthcare companies.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. Particularly, if you’re an in-house designer, this book will not only help you work internally with different teams in the company, but also help you address customers and their needs. You can order a copy here.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2013

About the Author: Sharon Boller is the president of Bottom-Line Performance, Inc, an Indianapolis-based learning design company. Sharon speaks at numerous conferences on the topic of learning game design – including ASTD, Training, and SALT. Download the White Paper. You can download the white paper here.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 2, 2013

As a result, many an article has been forwarded around the company, and it’s always an interesting read. ” Takeaway: Instead of delivering training all at once, space it into smaller sessions. No cramming! Practice Testing.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 23, 2017

I assume you are reading this post because you are a training manager, a sales manager, or some type of learning and development professional who produces learning games or learning solutions for others. Make sure you get the return on investment your company deserves and should expect.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 23, 2015

I find that the companies that are most successful with games and gamification in their organizations take many similar approaches when it comes to implementation. You probably have lots of training initiatives happening in a calendar year. Use reporting and adapt the training. Create a communications strategy around the game.

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The other award, gold for Best Advance in Sales Training Online Application , recognized BLP and Cisco Systems, Inc. The Knowledge Guru platform is used by Fortune 500 companies to reinforce and help employees retain critical knowledge such as policies, procedures, product knowledge and compliance information. ABOUT CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 1, 2014

If you are a chief learning officer or training manager/director who is trying to figure out whether games should be part of your learning mix—or how best to use them—here are six truths for you to consider: 1) Games and simulations require expertise to design well; you have to understand game design as well as instructional design. .”

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We share the example of Knowledge Guru user ExactTarget frequently because of the bang-up job they did when they first launched their MobileConnect Guru game company-wide. Do you have TV monitors around your office that display company news? Let’s take a look at some of the methods they used to promote the game to learners.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 14, 2017

We ask this because we often see companies that want to take massive amounts of content and squeeze it into a 30-minute eLearning course. Yet stakeholders and designers make choices every day that hinder training efforts and result in wasted dollars that produce no result. This is a question we often ask our clients. Scaffolding.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 15, 2014

“The Knowledge Guru platform was a fun and new way for us to reinforce the training we needed to do with the launch of our new product. Our clients loved it, and the training led to meaningful business outcomes.”. They are a best-in-class example of how games can be integrated into a broader product launch training effort.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In this session, you’ll learn how Rogers Communications successfully integrated UX design and gamification into an online training course. In this session, you’ll learn about implementing 360-degree video content in your own organization from a company that has been using this medium for some time: Samsung Electronics America.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 29, 2017

Newzoo provides the insights for the generic games market; the Serious Play Conference released its annual report showcasing the huge growth specific to the education and corporate training sector. The compound annual growth rate in the U.S and India being the top two markets for serious game play.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Many companies still hang on to this old browser version, but it prevents us from using higher-quality graphics and slicker interactions. A pharma or medical device company might incorporate a Quest game as poart of onbaarding new sales associates. As a component of a multi-day or multi-week training initiative.

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