Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

While I understand the need to balance a budget, my sadness is that education fuels economic growth and innovation and while short-term cuts will balance today’s budget. These cuts would set back the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to funding levels not seen since 1989-90.

Budget 133

Budget Education Innovation System 133

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Education is vital to America’s individual and collective economic growth and prosperity, and is necessary for our democracy to work. Interesting perspective on American Education from the Department of Education. Arne Duncan , US Secretary of Education.

Problem 180

Problem Report Education Global 180

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 16, 2009

For something aimed at high school seniors, undergraduate and graduate students check out Industry Player. For some informational but fun videos on financial topics, check out CommonCraft.

Games 180

Games Ideas Business Teach 180

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

So to determine if a degree is practical (helping someone succeed on-the-job), Great Britain may begin to publish how economically successful a school’s students are after graduation and administer a test to determine whether university graduates have any workplace communication skills.

RFP 157

RFP Adoption Adopt Exercise 157

Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2011

“Allowing students to step into the shoes of practitioners in different specialties, health care settings and economic systems, in an immersive and authentic way, could help guide their decisions regarding which career choices would be the best fit with their values and personal characteristics,&# Fetters. Fetters, M.D.,

Games 150

Games Education Simulations Player 150

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

With all this talk about economic disaster, I thought I'd offer some "free e-learning stuff" to help make your day/week/month a little brighter. silver lining in this gray economic cloud. If we all posted a few free things then each of us could benefit each other and expand our own knowledge as well as others.a

Free 100

Free Ning Summary Social Networks 100

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Often Pennsylvanians and others overlook the positive economic impact of professors at local state-owned colleges. Local universities are engines of economic growth and professors are the gears that make the engine run. Each of these roles could be a full-time job in-and-of itself.

Job 150

Job Help Internationalization Engineering 150

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2013

VOI seeks to measure the idea of creating a life-long learner, of tying educational outcomes to economic development and of creating value through collaborative learning at every level of the college.

ROI 180

ROI Compliance Training Metrics Community 180

Kapp Notes

APRIL 11, 2011

The growing use of avatars, the increasing popularity of massively multiplayer online role play games (MMORPGs) and the addition of point systems, badges and leader boards in realms such as economics, retail sales and finance is leading to a proliferation of gamified collaborative and learning techniques.

Gamification 170

Gamification Simulations Games Trends 170

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Is your socio-economic status reflected in your favorite social networking software? Anna Owens says "MySpace has one population, Facebook has another." A recent study seems to indicate a resounding YES. Check out the full article Does your social class determine your online social network?

Social Networks 105

Social Networks Social Network Network Classes 105

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

One colleague told me she is hearing that synchronous learning is picking up because organizations were "headed in that direction anyway" but the current economic situation has accelerated the movement.

Industry 100

Industry Synchronous Training Train 100

Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

Do we expect college students in a economics class to understand entrepreneurship without ever having run a business? We are kidding ourselves if we think we can avoid formal learning events and we are kidding ourselves if our learning events are not as authentic as we can possibly make them.

Simulations 195

Simulations Customer Service Knowledge Worker Learning 195

Kapp Notes

JULY 19, 2010

These games cover the topics of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, peace and economics. Here is a list of educational games that can be used to teach kids during the school year or over the summer break. Here are some games based on Nobel Prize winning research. There are a bunch of games on the web site to check out.

Games 216

Games Classroom Education Virtual World 216

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 8, 2008

With these tough economic times, such decisions can be difficult. It is always so hard to determine what type of corporate gift is appropriate for clients, co-workers or your boss? What do you get them that is not too expensive but not too inexpensive, that is business-focused but not too business-focused.

Ideas 100

Ideas Cost Instant Messaging iPod 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 19, 2012

We recognize the economic argument for scaling asynchronous solutions in virtual worlds – but the technology is designed for interaction, so design for interaction. Just attending a virtual world session and observing is for lightweights. Also, increase your residency, as I mentioned before.

Virtual World 124

Virtual World Synchronous Asynchronous Environment 124

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 5, 2010

Those selected for the Kauffman Education Ventures Program will be immersed in an intensive, hands-on program designed to catalyze the creation of companies with the potential to generate thousands of jobs and dramatic economic benefits.

Education 197

Education Enterprise Director Innovation 197

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 23, 2012

We recognize the economic argument for scaling asynchronous solutions in virtual worlds – but the technology is designed for interaction, so design for interaction. Just attending a virtual world session and observing is for lightweights. Also, increase your residency, as I mentioned before.

Virtual World 113

Virtual World Synchronous Asynchronous Environment 113

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cost Cutting With the recent economic meltdown, even organizations that aren't in dire straights have put the breaks on travel. As more "pandemics" emerge the resistance to travel will increase. This will become especially acute if a more fatal version of the H1N1 flu starts to spread.

Virtual World 205

Virtual World Virtual Classroom Centra Alternatives 205

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 18, 2012

Hinrichs: Virtual worlds for learning is economical. So, the objective for this change of mind is to evolve the definition and focus of the immersive capabilities of the software that is allowing distance to disappear altogether in the way we work, learn and play over the Internet. Where are we headed with all this?

Virtual World 168

Virtual World Wiki Metrics Augmented Reality 168

Kapp Notes

MARCH 3, 2010

While our membership numbers and the number of people in the world have continued to grow, there has been a marked decrease in revenue, which, in these economic times, is no surprise. Throughout the last year and this quarter, we have fought the good fight by churning out new features and revisions as fast as we possibly could.

Virtual World 105

Virtual World FAQ Upgrade Sales 105

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The definition of an economic bubble is, according to Wikipedia , “trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values ”.(Another No matter what the bubble, people within the industry always seem to have a rationale of why "This is different and normal rules of economics don't apply."

Education 118

Education Cost Wikipedia Market 118

Kapp Notes

MARCH 9, 2010

It might just be that the current economic climate is doing something that good will couldn't do.push the "open content movement" further. discusses the possibility that open content can address a number of issues involved with improving (read "reducing the cost") of education.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Open Adoption Adopt 100

Kapp Notes

MAY 18, 2012

math, attitudes, electronics, and economics)…(p.6) math, attitudes, electronics, and economics), this does not tell us whether to use a game for our specific instructional task. 6) [and]… The second “claim,” that games enhance cognitive learning, continues to be supported.

Teach 270

Teach Games Simulations Cognitive 270

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 28, 2008

They then must research what it means to have a “green” structure and how to solve some of the problems with the concept of “Green” in an economical fashion. The first is to ask the students to create a “green” structure within some cost and time constraints. Where to put solar panels?

Virtual World 113

Virtual World Teach Skills Cognitive 113

Kapp Notes

MAY 18, 2012

math, attitudes, electronics, and economics)…(p.6) math, attitudes, electronics, and economics), this does not tell us whether to use a game for our specific instructional task. 6) [and]… The second “claim,” that games enhance cognitive learning, continues to be supported.

Teach 239

Teach Games Simulations Cognitive 239

Kapp Notes

JULY 30, 2008

These games cover the topics of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, peace and economics. Here is a screen capture from the game called AlgebraArcade. You can also check out games based on Nobel Prize winning research. This game teaches about Nobel Prize winning Chemistry Research.

Site 113

Site Games Virtual World Web 113

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Contributions to Pennsylvania’s Community and Economic Development initiatives through projects with local companies (or local branches of national companies) such as Kellogg’s , Kawneer , PPL and DelMonte in support of Bloomsburg University's office of Corporate and Continuing Education through DCED grants and associated funding.

Instructional Design 105

Instructional Design Community Instructional Instruction 105

Kapp Notes

MARCH 11, 2010

A Rhode Island school fires all its teachers for inadequate peformance and in Kansas City 26 of 59 schools are shut down because of economic problems and costs keep going up with no corresponding results. We have a flawed educational system on many levels. Students are graduating with increasingly high debt and without needed skills.

Server 186

Server Player Virtual World Predictions 186

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Normally, I do not blog about political or economic matters but the debacle on Wall street is forcing my hand. Not all performance problems are training related. We learning and development professionals can't save the world if the world doesn't want to be saved.

Compliance Training 100

Compliance Training Stock Attitudes Compliance 100

Kapp Notes

JULY 1, 2008

One book that compliments Wikinomics and Inside the Tornado is The Long Tail which describes a new economic process involving a sale of a few things but all the time. In the book he references some material originally written by Everett Rogers in his book Diffusion of Innovations (which should also be on your reading list).

Long Tail 100

Long Tail Virtual World Reference Streaming 100

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here he is in action hI also saw a fascinating session given by Christopher Chambers, Director, America's Live Fire Program, Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis, Gamechambers, Inc.

Conference 100

Conference Simulations Virtual World Games 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 5, 2008

If economic recession becomes a reality as spoken about.layoffs in the e-learning and training field will hit toward the end of 2008. Several easy-to-use game development tools will be introduced along the lines of Articulate's Engage product making interactive games available to instructional designers at all levels.

Predictions 100

Predictions Second Life Rapid eLearning Write Blog 100

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Students can view a slide presentation of an economics lesson along with the audio or download just the slides or just download just the audio. Drexel's University's LeBow College of Business has 150 online students all over the world enrolled in its MBA program.

iPod 100

iPod Games Podcasts Podcaster 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 28, 2018

Much like actual work environments and economic systems of which many employee are an integral part. The games often models of complex systems which require the player to understand how the works and the trade-off inherent in the system.

Games 213

Games Player Sales Exercise 213

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 13, 2015

One hundred and eight third-graders from a middle/high socio-economic standard school district in Taiwan participated in the study. Results indicate that computer-based video game playing not only improves participants’ fact/recall processes (F = 5.288, p.

Study 100

Study Cognitive Games Video 100

Kapp Notes

JUNE 26, 2007

He is negotiating, bartering, cold calling, strategizing, building and partnering to accomplish his goal.not doing that sitting in school in a single file row listening to a lecture about economics.

Synchronous 100

Synchronous Learning Environment Environment Webcast 100