Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We create standards-based instructional curriculum for middle school teachers to provide their students with an engaging and unique Play/Make learning environment. Plenty of educational games have failed because they are disconnected from actual curriculum and standards and provide no teacher support. What does 2KLearning Do?

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AUGUST 22, 2011

My goal was to provide value to learning professionals by putting all of these definitions in one place and within reach. We need more performance support tools to lighten our load. It seemed appropriate for performance support and it keeps the file size small, as this is a native app. There were so many things!

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The RFP requested a two part program, a one-day interactive instructor led virtual symposium and a post-event reinforcement and performance support curriculum delivered via mobile devices. On the first day of the event, our CAC members provide presentations to the students to show them examples of what is happening in the field.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Employing the approach of providing spaced quizzes for learners over time taps into two powerful and empirically supported instructional strategies—Retrieval Practice and Spaced Retrieval. Retrieval Practice alone can provide improved recall performance by as much as 10-20%.[2] Create a Challenge for the Learner.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Employing the approach of providing spaced quizzes for learners over time taps into two powerful and empirically supported instructional strategies—Retrieval Practice and Spaced Retrieval. Retrieval Practice alone can provide improved recall performance by as much as 10-20%.[2] Create a Challenge for the Learner.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Katie Moran, Emma Lopo-Sullivan and Richard Thackray, co-founders of PerformTech, announced the acquisition of PerformTech by General Physics Corporation, a global performance improvement solutions provider.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Recently, on one of my blog postings Design e-Learning Like a Game Developer: Provide Incentives for Good Work , I received a response related to the fact that “gamification” is the easy-way-out and that we need to be careful about extrinsic motivation, that I was not correct in my posting about the use of extrinsic motivation.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 2, 2011

Even a simple game like Tic-Tac-Toe provides visual cues as to how each player is performing. The swimming race described before provides visual cues as to progress. Visually understanding how far you are from a goal provides incentive, feedback and an indication of progress as well as a measurement against others.

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JULY 29, 2014

Price Kerfoot, and a pioneer at blending aspects of mobile, gamification, big data and neuroscience to boost on-the-job performance. Right now we support 10 languages in desktop, tablet and mobile environments, and our servers continually sift through response data to provide real-time analytics to the organizations we serve.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

What started out as a very effective microlearning platform has now evolved into a sophisticated multi-faceted platform that provides organizations with everything they need to ensure that their employees acquire, grow, sustain, share and apply their knowledge to the job. First, the Axonify platform has expanded well beyond eLearning.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Everyday I see the dedication, hard work and energy that supports, prepares and prod students to levels of performance they did not think they could achieve. The same advice, ideas and guidance that I provide. The first is a course on how to develop grants.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Learning professionals have had to get much more creative and use a much wider variety of tools: eLearning, job aids, performance support, games, assessments, and more. We have a specific case study on our website with US Foods , where employees who performed well on the mLevel mission had a direct correlation to increased sales.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Sustained relationships with companies in the field of technology-based learning through our 30 member Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) which meets on campus twice a year to evaluate student performance. The CAC also provides direct input and feedback for new curriculum directions and innovations.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 7, 2011

Only, at this point, the players usually have to perform the skills more quickly or under greater pressure to make the application of the skill more challenging. Scaffolding provides support, functions as a learning tool, extends the range of the learner and permits the accomplishment of tasks not otherwise possible.

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JUNE 11, 2008

In the Middle of the Curve: Archive of EHR / EMR Posts Second, one of the newest medical innovations out there are CDSS (Clinical Decision Support Systems) in training we'd call them Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS). As designers of these systems, we need to think of ways to encourage acceptance and use.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

The goal of the interaction between the person and computer is to provide the illusion to the person that the computer is aware of the person sitting in front of it. Make sure the performance of dialogue is seamless. Pause, quit or move on without the user’s response if it doesn’t come soon enough. Creating the Illusion of Awareness.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 24, 2009

A recent study issued by the United States Department of Education, titled Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning found that “ On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. ”

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Theory and/or Empirical Support. Learning content not organized around the work context causes unnecessary overhead for the learner, simulation games can be organized to provide proper context. Game Element. Key Advantage. Learning outcomes presented in a game context with specific missions/goals/tasks.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

Recently, someone sent me some questions about the field of e-learning and I thought I'd answer them here and give everyone a chance to provide input as well. This is e-learning that needs to be done quickly, has information that is not permanent and that needs to be provided to as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

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MAY 11, 2009

On May 21, Tony Karrer of eLearning Technology is hosting and providing an E-Learning Tour of which I am participating by hosting the games and simulations leg of the tour. Abbott Bundy giving a tour. A full description of the tour and critical information is below.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2010

And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs. Under the terms of the agreement, ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere technology will be the basis for customized, 3-D virtual collaboration environments to create high-performance workplaces. While this has not been totally verified by dozens of data sources.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Allison Rossett did a wonderful job of talking about the Big Tent of e-learning and how we need to expand our thinking beyond courses to performance support systems. She provided wonderful examples of blending learning into the workflow for rapid learning on the job. Sometimes "time" is an instructional methodology.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

SkillSoft (Nasdaq: SKIL) a provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses with a huge catalog of "off-the-shelf" courses in a variety of subjects from IT to business skills announced today that it will no longer be publicly held.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 1, 2006

What level commitment will the IT department provide to you when course scores are not being properly reported? What resources are available to determine long term and short term needs in terms of purchasing new hardware or software to support more learners than expected?

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

This is experience provided under the guidance of faculty while students are in graduate school a mixing of theory and practical hands-on experience. (we We had Chris from Zerion Software as company that builds iPhone Applications and Mark from viaAcademies which provides online Instrumental Music courses for school-aged students.

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JUNE 2, 2017

Carson: In the book I discuss five “edge technologies” that are having a profound impact on the workplace (both in the short-term and long-term) and by proxy affect how Learning organizations should approach training and performance improvement moving forward. How do you provide the most relevant information at the time of need?

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 13, 2015

No teacher was involved in this study, and the researcher provided only technical support to the participants when needed. This group played the game Fire Captai n is a real-time strategy game, the players needed to put out a fire atthe end of tutorial mission, and their performance was graded by the game. Experimental Group.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 6, 2014

Doug Harward: The biggest change over the many years is how technology is used to enable learning and performance improvement. For many years, we’ve been caught up in the idea that the training we provide should be focused on the learners needs. Now it is ubiquitous throughout training administration, design and delivery processes.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 13, 2010

The environment supports creating multiple 'worlds' in a single application instance. These virtual machines promote performance efficiency by providing operators of production, processing, and packaging machines with the best practice standard operating procedure. ReactionGrid Inc.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Though these principles aren’t new, coming from the disciplines of software development and manufacturing, we have found they also help us get gains similar to what Lean and Agile have provided for software and manufacturing for the last 10-25 years. The media person pulled the work item for added supporting media.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 18, 2016

mLevel provides numerous pre-developed learning activity and game templates that the learning designer can configure with the learning content and assessment questions upon which the mission is based – all without any game development or coding knowledge. mLevel Analytics dashboard on assessment question performance.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Source Microsoft Lync: A New Name for a New Generation of Unified Communications Solutions ) 3D Virtual Immersive Environment Space In relation to the announcement of Microsoft Lync, ProtonMedia announced that its ProtoSphere virtual immersive environment for the high-performance workplace will support the new Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

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