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What Flappy Bird Can Teach Us About Creating Engaging eLearning

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Considering the rise of gamification in learning, it seems relevant to analyze the phenomenon that was Flappy Bird and see what lessons we can learn from it that can be applied to creating engaging eLearning. eLearning corporate training elearning motivation'

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Year One: 3 Lessons Learned For Creating Engaging eLearning

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Teaching someone how to do something in person is one thing, but online learning is an entirely different animal. There are many ingredients for success in eLearning development and one of the most important… The post Year One: 3 Lessons Learned For Creating Engaging eLearning appeared first on Dashe & Thomson.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

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From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. View all posts by Jon → ← Re-evaluating Evaluation What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning?

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

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In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning.

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The $2 Whiteboard Shows Power of Peer-to-Peer Learning | Social.

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He contrasts two teaching methods that involve different kinds of whiteboards: one that costs $2,000, and one that costs $2. That’s why this post from Frank Noschese is so great. The difference: peer-to-peer interaction. Analyzing the ROI of Social Media in Training | Social Learning Blog - May 3, 2011 [.]

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Can Learnist Hold the Key to Enterprise Social Learning?

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Learn something, teach something.” It separates learning lessons or topics into columns (called Learn Boards), almost identically to Pinterest. Click on one of these lessons and you can read the article or watch the video, as well as related items that anyone can add. Applying the Learnist Concept to Enterprise Learning.

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The Flipped Learning Revolution — Coming to a Brain Near You?

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Essentially, the idea is to upend the traditional teaching model of classroom lecture followed by personal practice at home. When Jon Matejcek first mentioned Sal Khan back in March, his site had 2,200 lectures available, and had registered more than 42 million lessons “delivered.” Nine months later, those numbers are 2,700 and 90.5

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