Fri.Oct 17, 2014

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How to Encourage Social Learning within Your Organization

Origin Learning

'The impact of social media on our lives has been terrific. Be it socio-political conflicts in countries, online campaigns to create awareness about a disease outbreak, raising funds for calamity struck people or learning to do every day stuff- the social media is now playing a crucial role in our lives. If you try to look at the essence of it, you’ll realize that social media is in fact one of the best forms of social learning.

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Resources from ATD Presentation in Wisconsin

Kapp Notes

'Here are the resources from my presentation. Opening Slides. Short Explanation of Gamification. Pinterest Page on Gamification Happenings. Gamification Happenings. Facebook Page on Gamification of Learning and Instruction. Facebook Gamification Page. Polling Software. Poll EveryWhere. Articles. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer.

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How to Make Your Own Sound Booth for Better Voice Overs

eLearning Brothers

'When recording voice overs in a non-professional studio, you’re bound to run into unwanted background noises, and other pesky sounds that your microphone picks up. What is the solution? Make your own sound booth. If you want to clean up your audio and make better voice overs for your eLearning projects than keep reading. Best of all, if you’re on a budget you can build a vocal sound booth for under $60.

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Questions to Keep in Mind When Purchasing eLearning Content for an LMS

Gyrus

Many guides on buying eLearning content talk about the quality of the content, the experience of the developer, the number of courses the developer has available for purchase, references, and etc. These are all very important topics that cannot afford avoidance, however there are some other questions that are important to keep in mind when purchasing content.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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How To Use a Game as Part of a Live Event

Knowledge Guru

'Using a Knowledge Guru game as a part of a live event or workshop can enhance the experience. You – or whomever is facilitating the workshop – can display a live leaderboard so players can see their progress – and compete for high point awards. The leaderboard auto-refreshes every 30 seconds throughout game play. To use a game in a live event, you need the URL for the live scoreboard.

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How To Export A SCORM Package

Knowledge Guru

'The optimal way to experience a Guru game is via the web application. However, sometimes the organization requires tracking of completion via an LMS. With Guru, you CAN generate a SCORM package of your game, export it, and provide it to an LMS administrator for upload into your LMS. The game play itself will be the same for players. What will be missing are the leaderboards and any opportunity to see how other players are doing.

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Tyramine Diet

Jay Cross

'Ah, the joys of modern medicine. I’ve begun taking a drug that requires me to restrict my diet severely. I’m not allowed to eat aged cheese, sausage, draft beer, sourdough bread, or anything else that contains significant amounts of tyramine , an amino acid that helps regulate blood pressure. Eating the forbidden fruit can cause severe headache, nausea, stiff neck, vomiting, a fast or slow heartbeat, tight chest pain, a lot of sweating, confusion, dilated pupils, and sensitivity to

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How to Send Players an Email from the Guru Game Wizard

Knowledge Guru

'The Guru Game Wizard allows you to send email messages to different players or subsets of players within your Guru game. There are several occasions where sending an in-game email to a player or a group of players can be useful. You may be running a contest. Here’s a two primary examples: To re-direct players’ attention to leader boards or to recent progress of a team or an individual player.

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Apple strikes against lagging sales rates with new iPads

Aptara

Apple strikes against lagging sales rates with new iPads. Hardware refresh cycles are now a fact of life in the IT world, almost comforting in their regularity. However, these moves don't just happen out of inertia. They have a purpose. Device-makers are trying to move the state of the art forward and ensure that theirs is the brand name associated with the next round of features and functionality.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Removing Players from a Guru Game

Knowledge Guru

'All Guru accounts come with a maximum number of players. Periodically, you may want to delete players to help you stay within your limits. You may also simply want to keep your database clean and re-use a game with a new group of players. When you no longer need data associated with players, you can delete them. Here’s what to do: Quick Steps.

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Find out what’s going on beyond your borders

Jay Cross

'If you want to learn what’s going on in learning and development worldwide, join me in Berlin this December for Online Educa. You’ll connect with colleagues from a hundred countries! This is the 20th anniversary of this forum of thought leaders in business, education, and government. Is it worth it? I certainly think so. This will be my tenth Educa.

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Creating Good Topic Objectives

Knowledge Guru

'There are three keys to a successful Knowledge Guru game: Relevant topics. Strong, specific objectives that relate to the game topics. Well-written, relevant questions that link to the objectives. This post focuses on the objectives you create for a game, and gives you tips on creating good ones…and avoiding bad ones. A well-written objective links tightly to the topic it is associated with.

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Goldy Oldy, the Ladder of Inference.

Jay Cross

'#ITASHARE #JAYCROSS.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Understanding Question Iterations & Writing Good Questions

Knowledge Guru

'There are three keys to creating a good game in Knowledge Guru: Clear, relevant game topics that have importance to the learner (e.g. there’s some reason these matter). Well-written, specific objectives that link to the game topic they are associated with. Well-written, relevant question sets that assess a player’s ability to meet the topic’s objectives.

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THE TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY OF CORPORATE MOOCS

Learnnovators

THE QUOTE: “ MOOCs and other online instruction is still the old “broadcast model” where everyone gets the same content whether they need it or not. When systems start to provide the content I need differently from the content you need, we will have taken a giant step forward.” – Karl Kapp (in our interview with him) THE JOURNEY: We, at Learnnovators, have always been fascinated by the power MOOCs can offer.

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Developing a Guru Game: Overview of the Steps

Knowledge Guru

'A good game is distinguished from a bad game in these ways: Concise game topics that link to whatever game name you created. (Example: Product Guru should have to topics relevant to the products your company sells. Safety Guru should have topics related to safety). Measurable, specific topic objectives that link to the topic. Well-written g ame questions that assess a learner’s ability to meet the topic objective.

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Stop, Drop & Roll – The Moment of Apply

Living in Learning

'We all experience hair on fire moments every single day and our ability to execute a quick action like Stop, Drop & Roll effectively and efficiently translates into effective loss prevention; saved accounts; business liability averted; employee churn prevented; redundant effort and rework minimized, competitive sales closed, material waste minimized…and…and…and.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Adding and Editing Players in a Guru Game

Knowledge Guru

'Usually you will have players self-register for your game the first time they log in. Occasionally, you may want to add a single player to a game, particularly when you a testing a game before you release it widely. For the same reason, editing a player can be helpful. Editing a players information is useful, though players do have the ability to self-edit their email address or their name once they register.

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Five Tips to Meeting Your Training Deadline

360 Training

'The following five tips may be helpful as a guideline for corporate training managers trying to ensure that all employees meet their training deadlines, and also for individual learners aiming to complete their assigned course(s) ahead of the deadline. 1. Calculate Training Time. Take the estimated time required to complete the training, then add a 25% buffer.

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