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6 Top-Notch Sessions at ATD TechKnowledge 2017

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You’ll learn what responsive web design can teach learning and development, and hear about research on how clean, mobile-inspired design improves results. Lessons from the Trenches of Learning Game Design. For each lesson, you get examples and learn best practices to follow and pitfalls to avoid. Learn more.

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How to Increase Learner Retention from Compliance Training… and Reduce Boredom

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Meanwhile, training that focuses just on teaching the necessary material can lead to learner boredom, burnout, and tune-out. Branch scenarios by job type: We wrote a similar blog post on this subject on the BLP Lessons on Learning blog, and it was there that we first shared our approach for branching scenarios in compliance training.

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Using Games to Improve Product Knowledge

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Lesson from the Insurance Industry. They also wanted to teach the basics of mobile marketing. If you need employees to know facts about a product from memory, handing them a bulleted list and saying “good luck” is not going to cut it. A close friend of mine started his career as an insurance agent selling auto policies.

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How Games & Gamification Can Help Align Processes and Procedures

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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. Many of our customers, Johnson & Johnson and Ally Financial to name a few, use Knowledge Guru games to teach a specific process that learners need to follow.

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Designing a Learning Game? Play these 3 Games First

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When rules are PART of understanding process complexity, it can be a good lesson. It is a bona fide learning game designed to teach players programming logic. When does rule complexity actually enhance learning? How would you debrief an experience such as this one with players? It’s a cooperative game as well.

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How Cisco Uses Knowledge Guru to Teach Product and Technical Knowledge (Interview)

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I interviewed Paula Rossini, Global Program Manager at Cisco, to learn more about how Cisco uses Knowledge Guru games to teach its sales associates. We felt that, through Knowledge Guru’s use of spaced repetition, we could teach the associates and engineers better. Can you describe your role at Cisco?

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ASTD ICE learning game design workshop resources

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On the negative side, there isn’t a strong enough correlation between the “teach” moments in the game and the activity. Professor Snerpus delivers periodic lessons on grammar rules. This game uses a simple technique for teaching and requires no upfront explanation on how to play. Simplicity. Aesthetics.

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