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

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings?

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. To be effective the game must make work seem like play.

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eLearning: Top Posts of 2009 - Upside Learning Blog

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Here’s a screen grab of tag cloud for our posts: Here is a list of some of the best posts of 2009: Top 20 Most Viewed Posts. Top 100 Learning Game Resources. Upside Board Game Exercise - Download the Winning Game. Patterns at Play – Fundamental to Games. Top Posts Category Wise: Game Based Learning.

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Adopting Digital Game-based Learning: Why and How

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It’s everywhere – these varied conversations about learning games and the spending of millions of dollars to further the state of art in learning games. It’s evident that they do need to, an audience familiar with game-based metaphors and interfaces are starting to enter the workplace in force. Where do they start?

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. It sounds like Weejee is growing quickly with Ian and Tracy at the helm, but they too are frustrated with the slow adoption of informal learning. Go take a peek.

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Do We Learn Differently Now?

Upside Learning

Just before I went on holiday recently I was asked how human learning has changed with the advent, penetration and increasing ubiquity of computing technology. While you hold that thought, it’s good to think that the technology is on the cusp of providing an ‘infinite’ amount of information.

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. More about me here.