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. An enterprise-ready solution is needed.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 1, 2014

“Should I use games for learning?”. “If the answer is yes, how do I integrate them into my training program?”. “Oh, and what about buy-in from leadership?”. I interviewed Kristen Pela, Manager, Training & Communications, Talent Acquisition to learn more about their use of Knowledge Guru. Don’t rush game play or development.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 22, 2017

But while mobile works great for many learners, some of us still want (or need) to complete training on a desktop or laptop. Since 1995, we’ve helped clients choose the right learning solutions for their learners, while also helping them to design and develop learning tools effectively. Implementation Support, Anyone?

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 26, 2016

In addition, managers must put people over process and make time for things like coaching, mentoring, training and creating a positive team culture. Get your training right. The training sales reps receive is much more likely be effective if sales managers reinforce it. But what if the training stinks to begin with?

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

You already developed and customized your Knowledge Guru game. 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. Now you need a plan to launch it, promote it, and measure it.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But with time, and lots of coaching and development, they’ll build their skillset and become more confident in their selling ability. How Training Can Help. We recommend incorporating a training curriculum that caters to people of all confidence and skill levels. Moreover, make employee onboarding memorable in a good way.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 9, 2017

Speaking of Drive… We added the Drive training reinforcement app to the Knowledge Guru platform in late 2016. Players take a short confidence assessment, then receive short, daily mini-games based on their individualized training needs. Get a tour of Drive.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 16, 2017

By doing so, I can stay on top of my game in my professional development and bring new ideas back to my team. Unfortunately, some corporate training sessions struggle to even provide an adequate user experience. Join this session to learn how one company prompted sales managers to develop mastery coaching behavior and skills.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 4, 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. Strategic Ways to Develop Game-Based Learning for High ROI. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

You already developed and customized your Knowledge Guru Drive game. 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.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The performance challenges let you extend this knowledge recall by including relevant on-the-job experience or performance-based training activities. Within DEVELOP tab, select Edit Performance Challenges. Develop Support Quest' The performance challenges require learners to actually play games and analyze what they are playing.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 9, 2014

In some organizations, training is a “check the box,” “we’ve always done it this way” activity. We incorporate these strategies for learning and remembering into all of the custom learning solutions we develop as well. That may work in some situations, but what about when remembering really matters?

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

You already developed and customized your Knowledge Guru game. 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. Now you need a plan to launch it, promote it, and measure it.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 11, 2016

BLP helped develop resources to address and mitigate global threats facing employees, facilities and information assets. Since 1995, we’ve helped clients choose the right learning solutions for their learners, while also helping them to design and develop learning tools effectively.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 5, 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. You will encounter a scenario where someone slapped points and badges on their ordinary training system and call it game based learning.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Many sales managers struggle to transition from selling to management because they haven’t developed the new skill set they need. 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

APRIL 13, 2017

The new app is a training reinforcement tool for sales reps. “Forgetting what you learned is a huge problem with corporate training programs,” said Sharon Boller, President of Bottom-Line Performance. “And if you forget – you might as well not have ever taken training in the first place. About TE Connectivity.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Most sales training professionals will tell you they are working within a “new normal” these days. The products they must train reps how to sell grow increasingly complicated. The end goal of sales training should be to equip sales reps to be a trusted advocate for their customers.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 6, 2017

These could be either educational games geared towards an academic setting or brain training games designed as casual play experiences for adults. Many instructional designers are surprised when they learn the degree to which software and game developers rely on paper to sketch their designs. Develop and iterate.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Written for Designers, Developers and Managers. If you play a role in designing, developing, or managing the creation of learning solutions and are ready to include games in your learning mix, this white paper for you. Sharon speaks at numerous conferences on the topic of learning game design – including ASTD, Training, and SALT.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Knowledge Guru’s New ‘Drive’ App: Training Reinforcement that Adapts to Each Sales Rep. This session will cover the challenges faced by today’s sales reps and demonstrate how the Knowledge Guru platform uses game-based learning, adaptive learning, and microlearning to reinforce training after product launches and enable coaching at scale.

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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 14, 2017

The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. ” — Noah Falstein, Gamasutra.com from Game Developer Magazine. Yu-kai provides dozens of fantastic, real-life examples to explain his concepts. You can order a copy here. By Karl Kapp.

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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

JULY 30, 2014

Doing so has a measurable impact on employee retention from training, among other things. Organizations depend on their training to help employees have less accidents, make more sales, provide better customer service and make fewer mistakes. It seems the New York Times has taken interest in spaced repetition as well.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

million USD to develop a Nintendo DS game for front-line staff. 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.

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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. You have to tear a page from a marketer’s book and develop a full-blown implementation plan.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. I’m sure you can already see the potential for soft-skills training. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 14, 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. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that. Pick #3: It Only Takes About 42 Minutes To Learn Algebra With Video Games.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 10, 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. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that.

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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. The post How to Make Employee On-boarding Memorable… In a Good Way appeared first on.

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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. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that. That’s a really significant change for overall learning culture.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2015

You want to include a serious game in your training… but can you use an inexpensive game template or do you need a more expensive custom game? If you simply want a quick “energizer” to break up a long training day, a game template can be a fast, easy, cheap way to quickly put together a game.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Doing so has a measurable impact on employee retention from training, among other things. Organizations depend on their training to help employees have less accidents, make more sales, provide better customer service and make fewer mistakes. It seems the New York Times has taken interest in spaced repetition as well.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2014

Contribute to our product development roadmap: We give our Enterprise customers the dedicated support and resources BLP is known for providing our custom eLearning clients. As an Enterprise customer, your unique needs and suggestions will play a big part in guiding future releases and upgrades to the game engine. Learn more. Learn more.

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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. We’re still stuck trying to figure out how to do things that have to be SCORM compliant. Where is game-based learning headed in 2017?

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 16, 2014

Safety training is often viewed as a “check the box” activity inside organizations. ” If the only reason you are providing the training is to simply comply, is it really necessary to make it engaging? The problem is that safety training has a much bigger impact beyond simply “remaining in compliance.”

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