Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This book bridges the gap between instructional design and game design; it’s written to grow your game literacy and strengthen crucial game design skills. The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. But how do you become the Milton Bradley of learning games?

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

How confident are you that learners really remember what they learn from training delivered in your organization? So how do you combat this all-to-common problem with training? Sharon holds an MS degree in instructional systems technology from Indiana University, where she graduated magna cum laude. webinar training magazine'

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 16, 2013

So without further ado, below are 4 must-have books for learning game designers: The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Ideas into Practice. The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook offers professionals a step-by-step guide for implementing the concepts and techniques outlined in Kapp’s previous book.

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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. Speaking of Drive… We added the Drive training reinforcement app to the Knowledge Guru platform in late 2016. Get a tour of Drive.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Karl Kapp’s book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction. The research indicates an advantage for game-based learning over traditional forms of instruction. 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. The result?

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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

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. While Knowledge Guru games can incorporate many different types of content, we spend time up front planning out what types of instructional goals a game is well suited for.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sharon speaks at numerous conferences on the topic of learning game design – including ASTD, Training, and SALT. She also co-facilitates a learning game design workshop with Dr. Karl Kapp, author of The Gamification of Learning and Instruction.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 19, 2014

Knowledge Guru’s game engine is designed to tap into two powerful and empirically supported instructional strategies—Retrieval Practice and Spaced Retrieval. As long as 8 years after an original training, learners whose practices were spaced showed better retention than those who practiced in a more concentrated time period. [5].

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2014

Add and edit game authors: Have a team of instructional designers? Visit us to win a copy of Karl Kapp’s new Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook. Create and remove your own game shells: The game administrator can easily create, edit, and delete individual games. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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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

MARCH 24, 2015

That’s why so much of the training organizations deliver year after year is supposed to help align employees with a process or teach them a procedure they must follow. This was the most mentioned training topic! – excerpt from “Is Your Process Training “Nice to Know” or “Need to Know”?

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

I was speaking to a client the other day who said only 10% of her workforce completes the training they are supposed to take on the LMS. She thinks training completion is low because the content isn’t engaging and wanted to know if a learning game could fix it. A strategy that drives measurable results? Know your audience.

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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. Games are the future of engaging learning solutions, whether it’s education or corporate training and development. We are setting out to change that.

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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. The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. We are setting out to change that.

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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. The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. We are setting out to change that.

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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? How much skill do you have in game design and instructional design? The Performance Challenges can be custom created by the instructional designer to craft skill-building experiences.

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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. The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. We are setting out to change that.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

There is a lot of interest from instructional designers, teachers, and sundry others in designing learning games. It is a mobile phone game (playable on tablets, too) that was part of a train safety campaign done for Melbourne, Australia. I’m teaching a g ame design course online with Karl Kapp that begins next week.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2016

Products that were mediocre and not grounded in good instructional design are going to disappear. Mini-games that require only minutes to play can serve as strong reinforcement tools, helping people to retain what they may have learned as part of a formal training component or helping them to prepare to learn in a more formal way.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 16, 2017

Unfortunately, some corporate training sessions struggle to even provide an adequate user experience. This session shows 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 speeding up, many organizations still lag behind.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 14, 2017

Yet stakeholders and designers make choices every day that hinder training efforts and result in wasted dollars that produce no result. Learners take a training course, but don’t apply what they learned because they don’t remember what they were taught. As an instructional designer, where do you begin? Feedback Loops.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 23, 2015

Your instructional designers may be good, but have they played lots of games? Many instructional designers continue their education and earn masters degrees in instructional design. You probably have lots of training initiatives happening in a calendar year. Use reporting and adapt the training.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 21, 2014

I was a fan of one of his early books, Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning , which he published in 2007, and I’d also read and enjoyed his recently published The Gamification of Learning and Instruction. The book, titled The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook, was going to pick up where its predecessor left off.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 29, 2017

Newzoo provides the insights for the generic games market; the Serious Play Conference released its annual report showcasing the huge growth specific to the education and corporate training sector. Instructional design – the design and structure of the experience to meet specific learning needs for a specific audience or audiences.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are paid on commission and they probably do not feel they have time to take your training! They will be reluctant to invest time and energy into training if it is not directly helping them do their job better. Wouldn’t it be great if training could be a positive part of that, and not seen as a time waster?

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 21, 2016

Suddenly, learning professionals want to call all of their training micro-learning, even if it does not fit the description. Like other learning trends such as mobile and gaming, it is not a be-all, end-all solution to every training need. Games can soften the resistance some learners feel when faced with a required training.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 14, 2016

Some organizations have truly embraced mobile as a training delivery method, learning as they go how to create an impactful mobile strategy. of training hours were completed via a mobile delivery method in 2014, up from 1.2% Customer training is also a big driver for the move to mobile. Use it to Drive Retention.

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 1, 2014

If you are a chief learning officer or training manager/director who is trying to figure out whether games should be part of your learning mix—or how best to use them—here are six truths for you to consider: 1) Games and simulations require expertise to design well; you have to understand game design as well as instructional design.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Both Legend and Quest use the instructional techniques of spacing and repetition. As a component of a multi-day or multi-week training initiative. If you provide multi-day training, a Quest game can be a terrific supplement that reinforces content as well as pushing people to execute skill practice activities.

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