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Is Your Measuring Stick Allowing You To Manage For The Better.

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It helped, too, that the game moved slowly enough to allow spectators to conduct business and keep track of bets, all while watching the game. Players ultimately developed, and their stats reflected that. Players ultimately developed, and their stats reflected that. You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

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The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts. If a receipt looked suspicious, players could write a description and hit an Investigate This! To add an element of competition, a leaderboard tracked and displayed which players had made the most finds. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen? Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

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After a game is complete, the coach will break down the film, showing players what they did right and wrong. Blended learning may be a newer phenomenon in the corporate world, but coaches have been using a mixture of video, instructor-led, experiential and peer-to-peer learning for decades. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

Module 100