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. Use the game as a reinforcement tool (most of the time). Furthermore, we find that Knowledge Guru works especially well as a reinforcement tool.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 28, 2014

SCORM can’t help you make smart decisions: Because all you get is completion and post-test scores, it’s hard to make adjustments to an L&D program based on the results of a SCORM-conformant eLearning course. All the major eLearning authoring tools (Lectora, Captivate, Storyline) are Experience API-ready.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 18, 2016

– by Connie Malamed, The eLearning Coach ( Link ). From Courses to Micro-Learning – Sahan Chattopadhyay, ID and Other Reflections ( Link ). Micro-learning as a workplace learning strategy: Sahan Chattopadhyay, ID and Other Reflections ( Link ). Is Microlearning a Myth? Sharon Boller, ATD Press ( Link ).

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 11, 2014

.” Even companies with a well-developed “Corporate University” or fleshed out on-boarding program run into problems when new hires fail to remember what they learned in those introductory courses and sessions. Instructor-led sessions and eLearning courses, even when well designed, fall short in driving true retention.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 23, 2017

Did you have “complete an eLearning course,” or “play (insert name) learning game that my boss recommended to me” on your list? Perhaps you do – and perhaps you fully intend to do that course or play that game. But… What barriers hinder your ability to spend time in a formal learning activity?

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 27, 2017

Gamification allows you to add simple elements like points, badges, leaderboards, and levels to static eLearning content to create a more motivating experience. eLearning screens with static text-only content should also be kept to a minimum. Gamify your content. But that doesn’t mean you can’t cut this content down a bit.

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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. Use the game as a reinforcement tool (most of the time). Furthermore, we find that Knowledge Guru works especially well as a reinforcement tool.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

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 Drive as a reinforcement tool. Furthermore, we find that Drive works especially well as a reinforcement tool.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 30, 2014

“Click next” eLearning courses, instructor-led sessions and PowerPoint slides are simply not enough to foster long term retention. Just like in the K-12 environment, the most common corporate learning methods are actually the least effective for learning when we take a look at the research.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Your app or game could be ten times more interesting than the eLearning courses on your LMS and still not be enough to pull people in without frequent reminders. Your learners are probably busy people and need consistent reminders and encouragement to re-engage with training content.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

At Bottom-Line Performance , we’ve implemented games as pre-work to a larger training event or instructor-led training as well as post-work for multi-module eLearning curriculums to help learners reinforce what they learned—particularly material they really need to know from memory. Measure the outcomes.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2014

“Click next” eLearning courses, instructor-led sessions and PowerPoint slides are simply not enough to foster long term retention. Just like in the K-12 environment, the most common corporate learning methods are actually the least effective for learning when we take a look at the research.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2016

For example, you could gamify your entire onboarding experience by letting new employees earn points for completing specific activities such as an eLearning course, execution of a particular project, etc.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A challenge tends to motivate and engage learners much more than a lecture or “page-turning” eLearning course does. Challenges stimulate the inner competition we have with ourselves (can I do this?) and help us focus. It converts resistance into intrigue if the challenge seems meaningful to them and isn’t too hard or too easy.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 12, 2013

Creating a game is different than creating a workshop or a traditional “click NEXT to continue” eLearning course. However, if there is absolutely no learning point to this game activity, then you shouldn’t do it. Step 4: Dump ADDIE. Go agile instead. You keep refining as you go.

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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. Or organizations who want to squeeze a 30-minute eLearning course into a 5-minute “microlearning experience.” Image Credit: Elearning! And we get it.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 16, 2014

Employees may have seen the same old policies year after year as part of a required refresher course. If employees really need to know key facts, processes, and procedures, a single course is simply not enough. The problem with safety and compliance training is that it is often, by nature, rather dry material.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 28, 2015

Most serious games offer far more data points than a standard eLearning course. With relevant, accurate data in hand you can deploy just-in-time learning bites that help sales reps shore up the key information they need to learn instead of wasting their time with a full-blown course.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 14, 2016

Maybe it will be enough to just make those old eLearning courses work on a tablet? Some organizations have truly embraced mobile as a training delivery method, learning as they go how to create an impactful mobile strategy. While enterprise mobile learning adoption continues to speed up, it is still far from ubiquitous. in 2013.

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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. Many instructional designers and trainers are stuck in the rut of event-driven learning, whether that means eLearning courses, face-to-face sessions, or virtual training sessions.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 29, 2013

Traditional elearning wants to tell you what you are going to learn, give you explanations and orientation to the course, and basically hand-hold you through the experience. The landscapes you cross are super cool and fun to simply look at. The focus on exploration to discover “how to play.”

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