Knowledge Guru

JUNE 5, 2013

” It’s a great case for games. Games: More than Just Reward Systems.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 6, 2015

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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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Writing iterative questions, or three questions that all teach the same thing. Designing a game and creating measurable learning objectives. Using the basic features and functionality of the Game Creation Wizard. Writing effective distractors, or incorrect answers, for your questions. Creating realistic and engaging scenario questions.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You’re designing a game for a sit-down pizza restaurant to teach the wait staff customer service basics. The secret is to have players complete the same mental tasks they will do in the real world. This does NOT mean your game has to be hyper realistic! Your learners are mostly college-aged.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 24, 2015

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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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 12, 2014

Meanwhile, training that focuses just on teaching the necessary material can lead to learner boredom, burnout, and tune-out. To accomplish these goals, we must think both about retention and engagement. Focusing too much on a fun, novel approach can lead to training that is not linked well to learning principles.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 13, 2015

Serious Games + Learning Science = Win: How to Teach Product Knowledge, Policies, and Procedures. 3 pm – 4 pm, W107.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 13, 2014

What are you using Knowledge Guru to teach? We have also used it internally to help our Training Team learn about new training techniques and procedures. How does Knowledge Guru fit into the overall training? The Guru is great because it can compliment our existing training.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 31, 2018

Spaced repetition and distributed practice , for example, are significant components to help someone actually use what you are trying to teach them. But if you design training reinforcement without considering the underlying science of how the human brain retains information, you put your training efforts at risk.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Saying you need a “serious game” can mean so many things, from a simulator to a teaching game to a “meaningful game” as Marcewski puts it. In a recent blog post on GamaSutra, Andrzej Marcewski points out that “serious games” is too broad of a term to actually be useful.

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Each question set teaches one piece of information, but the three questions each approach it in a different way. In Knowledge Guru, game questions are grouped into question sets , which are groups of three questions. Each question set is linked to a learning objective in the game.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Video games are great at teaching players to healthily manage emotions, self-motivate, understand themselves, and (the part you’re probably most interested in) solve problems. Video Games and Social Emotional Learning. Our last article takes a very in-depth look at games as they relate to social and emotional learning.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 14, 2013

These are amazing results, and the reinforce the fact that games can and do teach. Of those students who played at least 1 hour, 83.8% achieved mastery. Of those students who played at least 45 minutes, 73.4% achieved mastery.” The post GBL Picks, Part 4: Curated Game Based Learning Resources appeared first on.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 21, 2013

This question is part of one question set, designed to teach one of the common game elements. .” Since this objective has multiple parts (seven to be exact), there are actually six question sets written to support it. Notice once again that the objective is simple and straightforward.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I like stressing articles like this one in GBL Picks because if all levels of education are starting to use games to teach students, then the businesses that hire those students are going to really have games in their training. It’s evidence of an attitude shift.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

They also wanted to teach the basics of mobile marketing. As you consider the best way to help learners with product knowledge, consider these examples from Knowledge Guru customers: ExactTarget needed sales and support teams to know all the product facts, terminology for the launch of MobileConnect.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 13, 2015

Serious Games+ Learning Science = Win: How to Teach Product Knowledge, Policies & Procedures. This enables a supervisor to provide pinpoint remediation if needed. This enhancement is in both game types. See What Success Looks like in our Upcoming Webinar. Wednesday, June 10th at 2 pm EDT / 11 am PDT.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The problem is that the more complex the game design or game-play is, the less cognitive space is left to learn the knowledge and skills you designed the game to teach in the first place. They want more action, more sound, more addictive qualities to the game. Timing is everything.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Those who can, do; those who can’t do, teach”? If you’re a sales manager, you’re living proof that this is often far from the truth. Lots of companies take their top performing sales reps and turn them into sales managers at some point in their careers.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 13, 2017

Learners complete a short confidence assessment, then receive customized daily mini-games that teach topics such as features and benefits, how to compare competitors and objection handling. The new app is a training reinforcement tool for sales reps.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 10, 2017

You’ll learn what responsive web design can teach learning and development, and hear about research on how clean, mobile-inspired design improves results. They will show how the design principles of the increasingly mobile web can make training more effective and improve learner adoption rates.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 28, 2015

Teaching call center employees how to follow a critical procedure or pushing product information to sales reps in an exciting way is not a simple task. Why do some learners find a certain type of training engaging, while others do not? The challenge you face is even more difficult when your content does not exactly jump off the page.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 31, 2013

When designing a learning game you should ask yourself: What resources make sense given the skill or knowledge you’re trying to teach? Players can use resource to purchase buildings or Development Cards, or they can trade for other resources. Do I need to include currency to represent something, or would that be a distractor? Perhaps not.).

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 11, 2015

It is a bona fide learning game designed to teach players programming logic. Robot Turtles – This game is actually designed for ages 4 and up. It’s a cooperative game as well. No competition involved at all. You have a “game master” who moves turtles on a board at the direction of the players.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2015

It is a robust example of a gamified approach to teaching CPR. None of us would want someone to perform CPR on us if that person’s skill had been exclusively built by viewing a set of powerpoints and then playing a Jeopardy game for a quick recall of steps and techniques. It feels – and acts – a lot like a video game.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 19, 2013

On the negative side, what do you think of the placement of the “teach” info on grammar rules? This nifty little game is supposed to teach algebra—even to five-year olds. Does it stand alone as a teaching tool or should it be combined with some other form of instruction? Could that be improved? If so, how would you do it?

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 29, 2013

On the negative side, there isn’t a strong enough correlation between the “teach” moments in the game and the activity. DragonBox – this digital game teaches algebra, but I will bet that none of you would realize this if I hadn’t shared this fact. This game offers a great example of this. Simplicity.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 14, 2017

Your learners, for example, may forget up to 90% of what you teach them. Longer breaks between teaching sessions may also result in longer-lasting memories. Subsequent research shows that the forgetting curve is actually quite variable and not set at 90%. Spacing Effect/Spaced Learning.

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Knowledge Guru

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Use it to create a single serious game teaching foundational knowledge or an extended play experience that incorporates performance challenges to help players acquire and practice new skills. The secret? Every game mechanic and game element are carefully linked to the science of how we learn and remember.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 18, 2013

Every time you want to teach someone a different fact, you need to create an all-new question set in Knowledge Guru. Grass is green. Dandelions are yellow. Blue is not the color of grass… green is. Dandelions grow next to grass. I see a plant with small green blades. It’s grass. Let’s look at two learning objectives paired with question sets.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Use it to create a single serious game teaching foundational knowledge or an extended play experience that incorporates performance challenges to help players acquire and practice new skills. The secret? Every game mechanic and game element is carefully linked to the science of how we learn and remember.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 16, 2014

A learning solution that teaches proper safety procedures can save lives. .” Safety issues directly affect the well-being of your employees. This is when learning and development has a mission beyond merely doing the bare minimum and satisfying requirements.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 23, 2015

Our client was able to take this information and launch new training to teach the effective process to the rest of the department. In one survey, a player commented that they learned a more effective way to do their job through the game that had not been covered in company-wide training. See Four Case Studies In Our Recorded Webinar.

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