Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2014

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Games Gamification'

Gamification 124

Gamification Resources Games Slides 124

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2011

And, notice that they even work in some history lessons. Speaking of history lessons, check out Civilization V. I have written about this game before in You want to teach leaders about Strategy: Have them Play Civilization V. Play the game and observe the interplay between activity and story. Civilization V.

Games 160

Games Instructional Instruction Simulations 160

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Instructional designers and trainers need to play a wide variety of games and simulations to truly gain an understanding of what makes a game and then apply those lessons to their own design of instructional games. ” They try to teach the entire sales process from start to finish with all the nuances associated with the process.

Simulations 182

Simulations Games Cognitive Instructional 182

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In the book I’ve shared a lot of the tips and lessons I’ve learned in the 18 (gulp) or so years that I’ve been doing this. Kapp: What do you think is the hardest transition or lesson that an “accidental instructional designer” needs to learn to create effective instruction? Bean: The hardest lesson? Less is more.

Conversation 187

Conversation Instructional Design Write Blog Corporate eLearning 187

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 5, 2017

When I was in college, we learned to teach in the “traditional” manner and I have been doing that for a while and still do in some instances. I teach a course about gamification and a course on instructional game design so both of those courses, of course:) use gamification and games. There are a number of methods.

Gamification 140

Gamification Games Methods Instructional 140

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

One of the areas that gives me particular delight is when they go on to teach in an institution of higher education such as a community college or four year institution and it’s particularly satisfying when they ask for any advice or council I can provide related to teaching within the classroom and concerning life as a professor.

Education 100

Education Teach Ideas Classroom 100

Kapp Notes

JULY 22, 2014

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Games Gamification'

Network 113

Network Resources Gamification Poll 113

Kapp Notes

MARCH 5, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Resources 100

Resources Conference Gamification Online 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 14, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Slides 100

Slides Resources Gamification Games 100

Kapp Notes

MAY 7, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Resources 100

Resources Emergent Security Education 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When teaching a software procedure to learners, we know that you should break down the procedure into its discreet parts and then allow the learner to practice the various parts of the procedure and then put it back together again as final practice. Three Steps for Teaching Software. Let the learners team up and work on the problem.

Create 170

Create Simulations Training Train 170

Kapp Notes

MARCH 24, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. A Meta-analysis Indicating the Benefits of Video Games for Older Adults. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Resources 100

Resources Solution Gamification Games 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Gamification 100

Gamification Resources Slides PowerPoint 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Conference 100

Conference Resources Gamification Slides 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 16, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Resources 100

Resources Gamification Slides PowerPoint 100

Kapp Notes

MAY 5, 2015

Teaching Expert Learners. Talking about Life Lessons from Video Games. Engage Your Learner: Add Suspense, Mystery, Intrigue. Two Opposite but Important Elements of Learning. Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. When to Use #Gamification. Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com.

Slides 100

Slides Gamification Resources Games 100

Kapp Notes

APRIL 22, 2009

Here are the photographs of the panel discussion on teaching from the 3D: Teaching, Learning and Collaboration conference. TEACH: Applying 3D To More Effectively And Efficiently TEACH Courses. The description of the panel is below. You can lean more about the panel at my post 3D: TLC Conference Pannel Discussion.

Conference 100

Conference Photo Teach Discussion 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Here are a few of the lessons I have learned. The powerful little computer literally has dozens and dozens of games that teach every thing from Spanish to French to Problem-Solving and even how to cook. Why 3D Teaching Higher Order Skills in a Virtual World Complaint? Then begin to design your mobile learning objects.

Big Question 100

Big Question ASTD Virtual Classroom Social Networks 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We provide an a method of teaching to standards that gets away from the testing paradigm and focuses on the hands-on experience that motivates individuals to gravitate toward a STEM careers. We talked with teachers, talked with students and decided on a plan to approach the teaching of STEM using a new approach.

Engineering 100

Engineering Standards Games Problem 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The lesson is that all the training and practice and studying doesn't really matter unless you can deliver. The lesson is that Learning and Development Professionals have limits in what we can do. Their willingness to perform and, at time, their ability to improvisationally apply the lessons learned to the situation.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Lesson Coaching Learning 100

Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2008

Once again I am teaching a class using virtual worlds, this class "Learning in 3D" will include the use of both ProtoSphere and Second Life. This semester we have a slightly different twist in that the students in my graduate class are teaching some summer undergraduate Freshmen how Second Life works.

Classes 100

Classes Second Life Virtual World Teach 100

Kapp Notes

MARCH 11, 2011

For example, we were creating an online board game to teach inventory managers concepts and ideas to reduce inventory within the organization. The actual game play would not have changed if the score went down but the instructional lesson may have been diminished if it had.

Games 162

Games Instructional Instruction Player 162

Kapp Notes

MARCH 18, 2010

While it is possible to craft 3D environments to teach facts and declarative knowledge, the real power of these virtual immersive environments is to allow learners to experience concepts, solve problems and work on skills like negotiation, sales acumen and team work (so called “Soft skills”). Learning in a 3D VIE is meant to be experiential.

Virtual World 184

Virtual World Ideas Simulations Score 184

Kapp Notes

APRIL 6, 2009

Teaching young doctors to work with others is yet another skill that can be taught in a virtual world. In an article titled Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? All these steps are designed to reinforce lessons about responsibility and hospital protocol.

Virtual World 100

Virtual World Second Life Teach Tagging 100

Kapp Notes

JULY 20, 2009

What Kennedy did not do was announce "by the end of this decade we will teach more math and science" or "by the end of this decade we will have more standardized tests" or "by the end of this decade we will lengthen the school day." No country had ever put a man on the moon but a mere eight years later the goal was accomplished.

Education 100

Education Lesson Games Tagging 100

Kapp Notes

MARCH 16, 2010

What lessons did you learn? Expert facilitators can make that possible by asking the right questions such as: What did you feel as you went through that experience? Where did you encounter trouble? At anytime was your thinking not clear? Did anything confuse you? What skills did you apply? What would you do differently next time?

Virtual World 110

Virtual World Asynchronous Exercise Synchronous 110

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Here are three games that can be used to teach the civics topics of how elections are conducted, how the Supreme Court functions and the complicated issues of the Middle East. Backed by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and Georgetown University, the Our Courts project is designed to teach middle students.

Games 155

Games Online News Site 155

Kapp Notes

APRIL 8, 2011

Energy efficiency certification requires an understanding of a complex safety issue, Combustion Analysis, which is challenging to teach and test because of the wide number of variables that could affect an outcome in each scenario. Combustion appliance Zone (CAZ) understanding. Worst Case Depressurization.

Simulations 162

Simulations Case Study Games Cornerstone 162

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you are going to put someone in a game/simulation to teach customer service skills or leaderships skills, the way to assess is to put them in a customer service or leadership position and see how they do. The lesson, presented in both formats, was about the attributes of a sustainable “green&# house.

Simulations 140

Simulations Research Games Cognitive 140

Kapp Notes

MARCH 18, 2008

It doesn't always make sense to teach people. Here is something from Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning that helps explain the point: In high school, I literally had a lesson on how to fold a map. The lesson was part of a six week class on how to read and use maps. I always had the last flap inside out.

Education 100

Education Lesson Internet Classes 100

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 29, 2008

IBM has released a 3D game to teach engineering concepts to kids. It comes complete with lesson plans for teachers including one called windturbine design and build challenge. They are working through a group they helped form called TryScience. Read more about IBM and TryScience here.

IBM 100

IBM Games Player Engineering 100

Kapp Notes

JUNE 28, 2010

Teaching concepts involves providing the learner with examples and non-examples of the concept and then allowing the learner to determine the attributes that describe the concept. Steps to conducting a conceptual orienteering lesson 1. Image courtesy of Randy Hinrichs of 2b3d and author of an upcoming handbook about learning in 3D.

Environment 180

Environment Virtual World Comparison Second Life 180

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 19, 2012

We included lesson plans for every chapter, just to give everyone a headstart. We find that sweating through your own in world presentation, teaching, live demo, or conducting any live event makes the user really figure out how to engage the audience, keep their attention, motivate them to interact, and feel the environment intimately.

Virtual World 124

Virtual World Synchronous Asynchronous Environment 124

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 16, 2008

In storytelling we have characters, in e-learning we are teaching people to perform certain roles (order entry clerk, salesperson). In e-learning we have objectives, in a story we have a morale or an underlying theme or symbolism (good ones anyway, i.e. the Christ references in the original Matrix).

Instructional Design 110

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 110

Kapp Notes

MAY 14, 2007

Fortunately and unknowingly, these electronic games, regardless of their content have taught you many valuable lessons. In the next few moments I want to share those lessons with you and your parents who are, by now, shaking their heads in disbelief. They teach you to be resilient. Next, video games teach you to problem solve.

Off-shore 100

Off-shore Games Player Lesson 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 23, 2012

We included lesson plans for every chapter, just to give everyone a headstart. We find that sweating through your own in world presentation, teaching, live demo, or conducting any live event makes the user really figure out how to engage the audience, keep their attention, motivate them to interact, and feel the environment intimately.

Virtual World 113

Virtual World Synchronous Asynchronous Environment 113

Kapp Notes

MARCH 26, 2008

Maybe an LMS Administrator Track, an online learning track and a stand up teaching track. Perhaps have them each bring their best lesson or something to post. An hour or even and hour and a half is not enough time, provide some half day, in-depth sessions. Have different “tracks” through the conference/workshop.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Conference Evalution 100