Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 17, 2014

What challenges do you face when delivering training that helps employees remember this knowledge? Many others also cited lack of learner motivation and engagement… or a lack of managerial buy-in for effective learning approaches. How Knowledge Guru Helps With Remembering. The survey asked two open-ended questions: 1.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 22, 2017

The Fall 2017 Release of Knowledge Guru makes life easier for game authors and provides new gameplay options for learners. But while mobile works great for many learners, some of us still want (or need) to complete training on a desktop or laptop. Now learners can play Drive on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

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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. With so many distractions to compete with, learner attention comes at a premium. Can Micro-Learning help stressed, unmotivated learners?

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 4, 2013

They want their training to be more game-like and fun for learners. In the case of Knowledge Guru, we use three research-based learning principles within the game to help players acquire knowledge. When learners get a question right in Knowledge Guru, three things happen: They move on to the next question. Spaced learning.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

If learners fail to embed new knowledge into their long-term memory, they will be unable to apply it on the job. 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. You know there’s a problem.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 19, 2017

Drive’s creation wizard tries to help you create specific, measurable objectives designed to use Bloom’s Taxonomy: a classification system that organizes knowledge by complexity. Optional) In the field labeled Performance Condition, specify the conditions under which the learner will demonstrate knowledge or skill. Given a scenario….

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re here to help. It facilitates the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes to the learners. It includes development of instructional materials and activities, as well as trial and evaluation of all instruction and learner activities. Others are not really a game or don’t align with the learning objectives.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

For some, the challenge is one of engagement; learners are tired of traditional eLearning and programs are seeing diminishing returns. For others, it’s about retention ; learners do not remember what they learned after completing training, therefore wasting its value. …select platforms that are scalable and modular.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Whether you use Knowledge Guru as part of your product knowledge training or some other combination of solutions, consider these tips to help learners retain more information, and enjoy the process: 1. Do you need to hold learners accountable for their product knowledge? Tips for Product Knowledge Training. Customer Examples.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 13, 2017

Learners complete a short confidence assessment, then receive customized daily mini-games that teach topics such as features and benefits, how to compare competitors and objection handling. Drive adapts to the learner over time to help them master their weakest areas and build on their strengths.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Designing a game that helps people actually learn something. You’ve seen firsthand how immersive games hold learners’ interest, helping them explore new skills and experience different points of view. Play to Learn is here to help. Designing a game is no easy task, but do you know what’s even more difficult?

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

With the launch of our new smartphone app for Knowledge Guru, we are excited to bring the learning science that makes the platform so effective for knowledge retention to learners’ mobile devices. Use push notifications and email to pull learners in. Have learners play in short bursts.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 21, 2017

Sharon Boller and Karl Kapp can help in their upcoming webinar | Tuesday, March 28th at 1 pm ET. ” The purpose is to engage and motivate learners to become active participants in their own learning process. There are also many game elements you can include to help keep people engaged. Gamification.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 28, 2014

Many organizations are ready for learners to stop clicking next to continue, but still need to track what formal training those learners have completed. These organizations know that a post-test score and completion certificate tell a small part of a learner’s story. Are learners earning badges? Scoring points?

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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. Identify a specific learning objective that your learners are missing as a group, then adjust your Knowledge Guru game to better focus on the weak process step.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

Why not use a role playing game to give learners situational practice? Consider a game that puts the content in a fun setting and employs some research-based learning principles to help people memorize the information faster. These approaches can also be helpful, as long as they are not overly simplistic.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 9, 2014

Sharon Boller , Knowledge Guru creator and Chief Product Officer, has authored a new white paper on strategies you can use to help learners remember. Effectively use Knowledge Guru as a tool to increase learner retention. Ensure any solution you implement at your organization is backed by research-based learning principles.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 2, 2014

Will the story be too “out there” for some learners? Will a story that is too detailed exclude certain learners or make them feel the game does not apply to them? Research shows that incorporating story and even fantasy elements into games can help embed memories. Should I use a story?

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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. The tips below will help you craft the incorrect answer choices in your game. ” These response choices are big cues to learners of what the correct response is. View More Tutorials.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 9, 2017

Fish For Facts gives you another option for helping learners build their knowledge comprehension. 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. See the new look. New Mini-games for Drive.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Game-based learning can improve learner engagement, but only if you start with a strategy. Years of research shows that game-based learning can increase not only learner engagement, but drive both higher retention and completion rates. A strategy where learners actually learn and retain at higher levels? Know your audience.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2013

That’s because the game mechanics need to carefully link to the learning experience, and help learners achieve the learning objectives in your design. Your learners are mostly college-aged. You have to think like a game designer and an instructional designer at the same time. What if it was mob-themed?

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 10, 2017

The Mobile Mindset: How to Wow Your Learners. They will show how the design principles of the increasingly mobile web can make training more effective and improve learner adoption rates. Simply changing your mindset from instructional designer to game designer will help you to create engaging and effective instruction.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 30, 2014

Specifically, testing requires learners to retrieve knowledge from memory. Organizations depend on their training to help employees have less accidents, make more sales, provide better customer service and make fewer mistakes. According to Roediger, knowledge is solidified in our working memory when we practice retrieving and using it.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 11, 2016

The new app allows learners to start playing Knowledge Guru on their smartphone and finish on their laptop. BLP also won a Bronze Horizon Interactive award for Password Blaster , an arcade-style game that helps Cummins, Inc. Scores and achievements sync seamlessly between the web app and native app version of Knowledge Guru.

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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. Identify a specific learning objective that your learners are missing as a group, then adjust your Legend or Quest game to better focus on the weak process step.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 21, 2013

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. This title should be descriptive of what the learners will become gurus of: a product, a process, an industry, etc. Learners see this when they master the topic.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 9, 2014

If you are creating a serious game to help your employees improve their performance, the type of game you create depends greatly on the type of job your employees have. As always in game design, you’ll want to avoid game elements that are irrelevant to learners. Are either of the following statements true? The result?

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

And make sure it is integrated into learners’ workflows. 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. Take advantage of the data you gather from your learners and act quickly to adapt their training and processes.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 15, 2014

We’ve created a new guide to help you accomplish this. And once you map the “fun” elements of your serious game to the elements needed for learning, you’ll also want to employ some research-based learning principles to actually help people remember the content after they’ve learned it.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 17, 2014

It is also actionable and specific: it focuses on what you want the learner to know or be able to do related to the topic. They are clear about what the learner should be able to do after playing the game. It will help you think about the cognitive skill you want learners to do and provide verb choices that match.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 19, 2014

Retrieval Practice requires learners to recall information rather than simply re-read or re-listen to it. Spaced Retrieval helps learners retain access to memorized information over long periods of time because the spacing promotes deeper processing of the learned material.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 21, 2016

And when the games are designed or chosen based on the characteristics of target learners, great things happen. Today’s sales trainers are pairing games with mobile reinforcement and microlearning to help sales reps be successful. Get learners comfortable with rules and game play before starting – or build in tutorial guidance.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Sharon offers four great reasons why adult learners should love game-based learning (and why you should incorporate it into your next training curriculum): 1. Appeal to the goal orientation within most of your learners. So, if you want to appeal to learners, give them a meaningful challenge to overcome. and help us focus.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 16, 2017

The Mobile Mindset: How to Wow Your Learners. This session shows how the design principles of the increasingly mobile web can make training more effective and improve learner adoption rates. BLP will also be exhibiting our Knowledge Guru platform during expo hours in booth 625. We hope to see you there! Sunday, 5/21: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Annie Murphy Paul’s bio tells us she is a “book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better.” Giving learners more evaluations, often not graded, will aid in further learning. Pretesting. Learning Principles at Work in Knowledge Guru.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 26, 2014

Games created with the explicit intent of helping someone learn a specific set of knowledge or skills belong in this category. We’ve also designed card games, mobile games, computer games, and board games to help people learn new knowledge or skills or to reinforce knowledge or skill learned via other means. An Example of a Game.

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