Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Another successful Learning Game Design workshop is in the books. It was an absolute luxury to spend an entire day playing games, learning about various game mechanics and game elements, and prototyping a game with a small team. We had a full room, with many participants coming from the Indianapolis area. Flow of the day.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

By basing your own learning designs off of these principles or using a solution that already has the learning principles built in, you can greatly increase what your learners will remember. Any business professional looking for one of the following outcomes through a corporate learning program: Less accidents. More sales.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 12, 2013

If the sign-ups for our learning game design workshops and Primer on Play workshops are any indicator, learning and development professionals are clamoring for solid guidance on how to get started in learning game design or “game-based learning.” That’s part of your mission!

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For the past year, Knowledge Guru® creator Sharon Boller has been a recipient of Annie Murphy Paul’s Brilliant Report , a weekly newsletter on the science of learning. It turns out that the learning tactics most commonly used by both students and professionals are also the most ineffective. Distributed Practice. No cramming!

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

She thinks training completion is low because the content isn’t engaging and wanted to know if a learning game could fix it. I told her that there is no “easy button,” and games are not a cure-all for for boring content or bad learning design. A strategy where learners actually learn and retain at higher levels?

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

How confident are you that learners really remember what they learn from training delivered in your organization? And since everything we do is grounded in research, they’ll provide recent research on games and case studies that demonstrate how games can be used for learning. That’s what this webinar is all about.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 6, 2017

Last week we announced Sharon Boller and Dr. Karl Kapp’s new book on learning game design on the BLP blog. It’s called “Play to Learn: Everything You Need to Know About Designing Effective Learning Games.” Explore learning games. Set the learning foundation. Set the learning foundation.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 12, 2016

Some learning trends end up changing the corporate learning world for good. The ATD International Conference (May 22-25 in Denver) promises to be a great way to learn about the latest learning trends and to check in on the trends that have been growing over the last several years. Adaptive Learning. Microlearning.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We collected customer needs and feedback to add new features that make Knowledge Guru a more powerful learning tool… all while improving load times and speed. Adaptive Learning. The Knowledge Guru database can now create a personalized learning experience for players based on their learning needs. iFrame Embed.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 13, 2017

“Forgetting what you learned is a huge problem with corporate training programs,” said Sharon Boller, President of Bottom-Line Performance. It is also mobile, which is how the majority of learners want to access content. ” BLP also won a Gold and Silver Horizon Interactive award for TE Town , a mobile learning game.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 12, 2014

No one wants to take compliance training, yet a huge percentage of corporate learning is centered around compliance. Focusing too much on a fun, novel approach can lead to training that is not linked well to learning principles. Use the learning principles of spaced repetition to provide both micro and macro spacings of your content.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Organizations of all sizes are turning to game-based learning , serious games , and gamification to solve a range of learning and development challenges. For others, it’s about retention ; learners do not remember what they learned after completing training, therefore wasting its value. . Take a Research-Based Approach.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 2, 2014

The type of story and level of detail you need will depend on your learning goal. Some in the corporate learning field get nervous about using “too much” story for obvious reasons. Sharon Boller wrote extensively on this subject in her Learning Game Design Blog Series. Can story be used as a learning tool?

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 27, 2017

For example, when you need a way to motivate employees to follow a process or learn about a new product, creating a Hero’s Journey for them to follow is a great place to start. Surprise, Surprise) Use game-based learning. Research shows games are effective for learning. Gamify your content. Challenge your learners.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Read this article to learn about how to choose a delivery method. Use this option if players should be able to move on to other content after being exposed to content in this game. Once all content in the previous game has been seen. Knowledge Guru’s Drive has two delivery methods for minigames: Daily 3 and Custom.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2013

A while back we did a post listing 100 Great Game Based Learning and Gamification Resources , and since then we’ve done an occasional series called GBL Picks to try and curate information for you. obviously focuses on gamification, and doesn’t include much on game based learning. Gamification Co. Gamification Co.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 21, 2013

The Knowledge Guru® Game Creation Wizard is a fast, easy-to-use tool you can use to create learning games. It’s easy to put your content, facts and information you want learners to know “cold” into the game and create a highly engaging experience for players. Create three to five learning objectives for each topic.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 27, 2017

Sales reps fly in for the national sales meeting, learn about this year’s new products… and then return to their territories to keep doing things the same way they were before. There are many different tools and reinforcement methods available to help you, depending on the learning need. Mobile learning. ” 2.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 9, 2014

Sharon Boller talks about this at length in her learning game design blog series. Games that are distracting, out of focus and ultimately ineffective for learning. Sometimes, the best corporate learning games focus on just a few game mechanics and game elements so mastery of the content can be brought front and center.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 28, 2015

.” You’ve read articles and attended webinars that discuss making learning experiences engaging, yet most of the advice seems vague. What is an engaging learning solution? The challenge you face is even more difficult when your content does not exactly jump off the page. Start With a Challenge. Make it Last.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Blend into a curriculum: use as part of a learning solution. Make sure your Knowledge Guru game works with the other solutions in your curriculum to drive your learning objectives. Most organizations position Guru games as either a reinforcement tool or a first exposure to content that will be covered in greater detail later.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 11, 2014

Some of this learning is directly related to job performance, while the rest is based on finding the right information, following the right processes and understanding the “company vernacular.” In the past, most folks have learned by piecing information together from various co-workers. ” Our solution?

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 17, 2014

We recently released the results of our Learning and Remembering Survey on the Bottom-Line Performance website. Many of the respondents were current clients: organizations for whom we create custom learning solutions. Others simply said they had too much content to deliver. The survey asked two open-ended questions: 1.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 15, 2017

For you to be able to use Fish Finder in Drive, you must create a learning objective that uses one of these verbs: Compare. NOTE : These steps assume you have already created a game topic and an associated learning objective.). You will lose content if you proceed without saving it. Distinguish. Here’s how to create a game.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 18, 2016

Over the last five to ten years, corporate learning professionals have scrambled to engage their learners in an increasingly digital world. Recently, these learning trends and delivery methods have converged to make a new trend, microlearning , possible. Is Micro-Learning the Solution You Need? Defining Microlearning?

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 19, 2014

Spaced Retrieval involves providing students with quiz or course content spaced over time and it, too, is among the most robust findings in educational psychology research. [4] Ideally, the time between the learning events is greater than 24 hours, but shorter times have also been found to be effective.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The problem with product knowledge training is that we need to take lots of it to really know the facts… but memorizing content is not fun to do. It’s hard to learn huge chunks of information by rote, and those “talking points” don’t come naturally. Use research-based learning principles.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 17, 2014

This fact can be a plus in learning games where content might be a bit dry but a great theme and aesthetics can help create an enjoyable experience. Game Based Learning Quick Tip Serious Games aesthetics game-based learning gamification serious games' Compare these two game boards.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 31, 2018

Training reinforcement is essential to ensure that knowledge and skills learned in training are applied on the job. Essentially, learners can forget up to 90% of what they learn without reinforcement. It’s a critical piece of the learning and remembering equation, which brings me to my next point… 2.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The important message that “one and done” is never a sound training strategy is getting through to people, which explains the uptick in interest in learning products designed to improve knowledge retention. Your learners are probably busy people and need consistent reminders and encouragement to re-engage with training content.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Blend into a curriculum: use as part of a learning solution. Make sure your Legend or Quest game works with the other solutions in your curriculum to drive your learning objectives. Our experience shows us that the organizations that are most successful require that their employees play Knowledge Guru.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Since the release of Knowledge Guru in 2012, our team has spent thousands of hours researching the science of learning and serious games. We’ve play tested dozens of games to see what mechanics work for learning. Quest is an all-new game type that uses the same game content as the original Knowledge Guru games, but in a new way.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Knowledge Guru is specifically designed to provide you with a lot of flexibility to achieve your learning objectives. Resources allow you to add content that your learners can access and review anytime, anywhere. One way we offer this flexibility is through “Resources” support.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 16, 2017

This year, with 300+ sessions, you can find topics on anything from gamification and designing your own learning game, to mobile learning and employee engagement strategies. Your employees are already learning on their mobile devices. And while mobile learning adoption is speeding up, many organizations still lag behind.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 15, 2017

To use it in a Drive experience, you must create a learning objective that uses one of these verbs: Choose. NOTE : These steps assume you have already created a game topic and an associated learning objective.). Minimum and Maximum Content: Each game must include two scenarios. Here’s how to create a game. Three is recommended.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Recently, the elearning Guild published a report by Brenda Enders discussing games and gamification for learning. It includes numerous case studies and examples of games being used in the workplace today, and summarizes recent research on games for learning. Research Support Games and Gamification for Learning. My takeaway?

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 22, 2013

The key to creating a challenging game that actually helps people learn is as much about the incorrect answers as the correct ones. If your incorrect answer choices are too obvious, players will be able to guess the correct answer without really learning or knowing the content.

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