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SAT Prep--Just Like Playing a Video Game

Kapp Notes

Back in March, Kaplan , the huge learning company, announced that it was teaming with videogame developer and publisher Aspyr Media* to create Kaplan-branded interactive entertainment products and bring them to market. No small pedigree for developing educational video games.

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Putting People First

CLO Magazine

When it comes to learning, Jon Kaplan truly understands the importance of emotional engagement. Kaplan finally confessed his secret to a classmate and got the remedial help he needed, but by then he had become “incredibly ashamed” and his academic performance suffered through grade school. You’re more engaged; it’s more interesting.”.

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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

Like many bosses, Jon Kaplan thought he was a good leader. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan. Jon Kaplan was, until May of this year, vice president of training and development for Discover Financial Services. Mike: With that let’s turn to this conversation with Jon Kaplan. The only problem?

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Check Out These 5 Killer Features of The eLearning Designer’s Academy

Tim Slade

Explainer Videos & Tutorials. With each of the three courses I’m initially launching, I was very intentional about incorporating as much video content as possible. In fact, between the two Articulate Storyline courses, they include 13+ hours of instructional content, spread over 130+ videos!

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Knowledge Summit--Talking about Social Media But, Will it Blend?

Kapp Notes

Today and tomorrow I will be at the 7th annual Kaplan-EduNeering Knowledge Summit. I'll be doing a book signing, facilitating a video interview about the strategic relationship between ProtonMedia and Kaplan-EduNeering with Lisa Clune and Ron Burns and generally mixing with a great group of folks.

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Session Notes: Breaking Down Silos @JD_Dillon #TrainingMag

Learning Visions

He supports the guys who work for Kaplan. JD was at Disney for awhile, AMC entertainment, and 5 years at Kaplan. How Kaplan applied social and how that has changed the way work gets done. So he said, wouldn''t it be amazing if we had Wikipedia for Kaplan? How is the work being done at Kaplan? That no one can find.

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After EI, DI?

CLO Magazine

That pretty much sums up our experience at Kaplan of working exclusively remotely this past year. We have been using video conferencing for years, and working from hotel rooms, airport lounges and coffee shops was a familiar part of working life. We thought we were prepared.

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