Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2013

If you want to design a learning game, you need to know about game mechanics and game elements. It takes tons of hard work and play testing to make game mechanics balanced and fun in commercial games… and learning games are even tougher. You have to think like a game designer and an instructional designer at the same time.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I’m teaching a g ame design course online with Karl Kapp that begins next week. There is a lot of interest from instructional designers, teachers, and sundry others in designing learning games. This, of course, is heartening to me since I am a major proponent in the use of games as a learning tool.

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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

JUNE 5, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The trouble was that, while these game elements can be very addicting and engaging in a commercial game, they can get overdone and distracting in a learning game. However, when devising a learning game, you have to carefully balance the complexity of your game mechanics and elements with the learning needs of the game.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 10, 2017

Attendees are in for a treat, as ATD always hosts excellent speakers, top-notch workshops and hands-on learning sessions. Two of them are presented by Bottom-Line Performance team members: one on mobile learning and the other on learning game design. Your employees are already learning on their mobile devices.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 14, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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. achieved mastery.

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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

JULY 10, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 27, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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. market headed toward $2.3B

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 9, 2014

As always in game design, you’ll want to avoid game elements that are irrelevant to learners. 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. How do I design that into the game? The result?

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 3, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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. Gaming in the Classroom.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. 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.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 9, 2017

If you are an instructional designer, you may be noticing a pattern: each of Drive’s six mini-games is linked to specific levels on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning. We are an award-winning learning design firm serving a wide range of corporate clients. Get a tour of Drive.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2015

How much time do you have to design and build it? How much skill do you have in game design and instructional design? If you truly need to build skill – let people practice doing something – then a custom designed game can be a high-value way to help people achieve skills. Pretty cool! Play CPR Guru.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2014

Add and edit game authors: Have a team of instructional designers? Knowledge Guru customers now have even more choices when it comes to designing games. Visit us to win a copy of Karl Kapp’s new Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 12, 2015

It’s yet another opportunity to see a live demo of the new “Quest” game type, learn how the spacing and repetition in Knowledge Guru lead to long-term employee retention and meet in person with some members of the Bottom-Line Performance team. On Twitter, tweeting as @TheKGuru.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 12, 2015

It’s yet another opportunity to see a live demo of the new “Quest” game type, learn how the spacing and repetition in Knowledge Guru lead to long-term employee retention and meet in person with some members of the Bottom-Line Performance team. On Twitter, tweeting as @TheKGuru.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2016

Does that mean that it—and its cousin learning games—are dying? The short answer is “No”… at least not the good applications of these learning methods. Instead, it means that gamification and learning games are moving toward mainstream usage and beyond early adoption stage. Where does Knowledge Guru fit in?

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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

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? Instead of listing out learning objectives, start your next training experience with a challenge or goal. Start With a Challenge.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 24, 2015

In an article on process training I wrote for our BLP Lessons on Learning blog, I shared that 41% of respondents to our 2014 Learning and Remembering Survey listed policies, process, and procedures as the primary type of knowledge employees must know on the job. Motivate employees to learn about the process.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 29, 2017

for corporate learning games will be over 20% between 2017 – 2022 and about 35% globally with the U.S. So… it makes sense for L&D personnel to consider what space mobile games (aka ones intended for play on a smartphone) might occupy in their company’s learning and development portfolio. They don’t.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 14, 2017

What percentage of your learning content are you okay with people forgetting? ” Organizations expect their employees to learn and remember everything. ” Organizations expect their employees to learn and remember everything. We know from experience that short-term learning strategies aren’t the best solution.

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I love games—but that does not mean I think a game is the appropriate option for every learning situation. I do not think it will always equal the most effective or efficient means of helping people learn. ” You have to market a game and plan its implementation just as carefully as you would any other type of learning solution.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 21, 2016

If you follow so-called learning trends, you’ve been hearing about micro-learning. Suddenly, learning professionals want to call all of their training micro-learning, even if it does not fit the description. We’ve been creating learning experiences that would now be called micro-learning for many years.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 23, 2015

In an ATD survey conducted for its 2014 research report, Playing to Win: Gamification and Serious Games in Organizational Learning ( link ), 71% of organizations reported that they prefer to develop serious games in-house. The challenge of in-house game design. Have they designed games before? Getting Around Game Design.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 23, 2017

They’re gearing up for another great conference and are excited to learn about the new learning strategies and technologies DevLearn has to offer. Case Study: A Game-Based Approach to Learning Without Lessons. Learn more. Case Study: Integrating UX Design and Gamification. Learn more. Learn more.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are eager to learn, but only when the knowledge will directly help them on their next sales call. There is a reason so many of the Bottom-Line Performance clients who ask us to design a custom serious game wish to use it with sales reps. Serious Games and Sales Reps: A Perfect Fit. Sales associates average over 3.5

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