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

JANUARY 19, 2017

Enter your email address and click Forgot Password to receive email instructions for resetting your password. Quick Steps to Log in to Knowledge Guru. Go to [link]. Enter your email address and password and click Sign In. Don’t know your password?

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Define your instructional goal and objectives, your audience characteristics, select a theme, a game goal, and a core dynamic. Game Based Learning Learning Game Design agile instructional design learning game design learning game design series' If it’s not a digital game, then you obviously won’t create digital outputs.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 31, 2018

We must consider the importance of learning science – the backbone of sound instructional design. A blend of traditional instructional design with design thinking tools may be part of the solution. But before we get to that, we have to understand what makes these technologies useful for learning.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 6, 2017

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. Many instructional designers are surprised when they learn the degree to which software and game developers rely on paper to sketch their designs.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2013

She also co-facilitates a learning game design workshop with Dr. Karl Kapp, author of The Gamification of Learning and Instruction. She authored one of the chapters in his upcoming book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook, which will be published in 2014. .

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 21, 2017

Karl Kapp describes gamification as “an emergent approach to instruction which facilitates learning and encourages motivation through the use of game elements, mechanics and game-based thinking.” Game-based learning uses learning games to achieve an instructional goal.

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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.

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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. Most of us at BLP have this book on our desks, so the content was not unfamiliar to us.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 20, 2017

Top Scores Since X Date (use the instructions below to set a date). The Live Leaderboard includes between four and seven unique leaderboards, depending on the number of custom registration fields you have created. They appear in the following order: Overall Top Scores. Registration Field 1, if applicable (For example, Location vs Location).

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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. 2012) The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. And Cull W, Shaughnessy JJ, Zechmeister EB.(1996) 5] Kapp, K.

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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. 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 23, 2017

Invite reps to register for and play game; provide instructions. Send follow-up invitation, including instructions again. Get creative and plan on multiple messages rather than just one. 1 week before launch. Implement plan by sharing out pre-launch “teasers.”. 1 day post launch.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 3, 2017

Invite learners to register for and play game; provide instructions. Send follow-up invitation, including instructions again. Get creative and plan on multiple messages rather than just one. 1 week before launch. Implement plan by sharing out pre-launch “teasers.”. 1 day post launch.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

Here are instructions on mass uploading. Mass Upload Players – You can also mass upload players so that they do not use the registration page. With this approach, you simply send players their login information. Follow these steps to edit player registration options. Quick Steps to Edit Registration Options.

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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. Fish For Facts gives you another option for helping learners build their knowledge comprehension. Get a tour of Drive.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Use the library in conjunction with our free instructional webinars , held every two weeks. You’ll find the admin user guide, a sample design document, and even a Powerpoint template you can use to run a design meeting. That’s what they’re here for, folks!

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You have to think like a game designer and an instructional designer at the same time. That’s because the game mechanics need to carefully link to the learning experience, and help learners achieve the learning objectives in your design.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Sharon holds an MS degree in instructional systems technology from Indiana University, where she graduated magna cum laude. Sharon has 25 years’ experience in learning design; she is the Chief Product Officer of the Knowledge Guru game engine, a platform for creating serious games. About Steven Boller.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2015

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. Here are questions you need to consider as you decide: What are you trying to achieve? How much budget do you have?

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 21, 2013

You can lower the risk of this happening by providing players with specific registration instructions. Since players can type their location in themselves, “New York” and “New York City” will be sorted as separate locations. Manually Register Players.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2013

He has authored 2 books on the subject including The Gamification of Learning and Instruction , one of the best books out there about games for learning. Karl Kapp partnered with Sharon Boller, the creator of Knowledge Guru, to put on the successful Play to Learn workshop. He’s been a thought leader in the industry for a while now.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 9, 2014

With so many different game elements and game mechanics to potentially include in a game design, instructional designers new to game design often struggle to find focus and direction. Sharon Boller talks about this at length in her learning game design blog series.

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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 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 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. 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

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

MARCH 5, 2015

Provide the.CSV file with instructions to make edits, as desired, to the game question stems, responses, or feedback columns. You may add a temporary column labeled “Comments” for your SME to type comments into. This column needs to be deleted before you re-import the.CSV file.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 12, 2015

Jennifer Bertram, Director of Instructional Design at BLP, will present a session on Agile Learning Design on Thursday, January 15th at 5 pm. Come set up a personal demo of Knowledge Guru and get a free T-Shirt! Steven Boller (that’s me) will be giving a solution session on serious games on Thursday, January 15th at 9:10 am.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 12, 2015

Jennifer Bertram, Director of Instructional Design at BLP, will present a session on Agile Learning Design on Thursday, January 15th at 5 pm. Come set up a personal demo of Knowledge Guru and get a free T-Shirt! Steven Boller (that’s me) will be giving a solution session on serious games on Thursday, January 15th at 9:10 am.

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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. I’m teaching a g ame design course online with Karl Kapp that begins next week. 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

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. 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 23, 2015

Whatever your desired business outcomes are, make sure your game-based approach is based on sound instructional design. Of course, implementing a strategy at your company will involve many more steps than what I have shared here, as well as testing to gauge the response a game-based learning approach has with your learners.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2016

Products that were mediocre and not grounded in good instructional design are going to disappear. It means that companies who are more conservative—who are the “let’s wait and see how this shakes out” kind of decision-makers—will likely be ready to jump on board soon. Those with strong underpinnings will remain.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The job of a learning game designer is to combine solid instructional design and game design so the learning gets woven into game play. The learning gets overshadowed by rule complexity or too many game elements. The job of a learning game designer. The game rules support the learning need and the game elements function as reinforcers.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 28, 2015

And while learning solutions must include instructional design that purposely leads to retention of this type of content, retention cannot happen if learners are not motivated to learn. Teaching call center employees how to follow a critical procedure or pushing product information to sales reps in an exciting way is not a simple task.

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