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5 Steps to a Successful Blended Learning Strategy

Learning Rebels

Polling or Survey Tools: Use for projects to gather information, create challenge games or quick knowledge checks Assessment Tools: Develop knowledge checks and self-study tools Document Collaboration Tools: Allow project teams, or facilitator/ participant collaboration (i.e. Slack, MS Teams, OneNote, Evernote, etc.)

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5 Ways a business LMS supports learner engagement

Matrix

Let’s take polls as an example. It’s wise to use polls for information repetition and retention and to gather feedback from learners. Furthermore, polls can gather feedback from managers, team leaders, and coaches. The amazing thing about game elements is that they may require effort but make the process entertaining.

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Keynote Resources from #LUC2017

Kapp Notes

Challenge : As the game-based learning expert James Paul Gee has said, good games give players a set of challenging problems and let them solve those problems until they can do it automatically. Then those same games throw a new class of problem at the players requiring them to re-think, their now—taken for granted—mastery.

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Friday Find Finds — Evidence-based Training Lessons, Signal vs Noise, Persuasive Copywriting

Mike Taylor

People don’t tend to do learning challenges (or anything really) for fictitious rewards.This article examines the differences between what makes games fun and what we think makes them fun along with some techniques you can use to make your edTech and eLearning more enjoyable. Get Acquainted lets you make free chatbot polls fast.

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NJEdge.net Storytelling and Gamification Workshop Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are instructions for using Poll Everywhere to create an interactive story. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. Five Gaming Elements for Effective eLearning. 8 Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Feedback in Learning Games.

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Karl Kapp "The Case of the Disengaged Learner" #ATDTK

Learning Visions

hours a day on their phones, some of that playing games. Your frontal cortex gets active - it''s like your brain is rehearsing what it hears in a story. Our brains are programmed to filter out repetitive activities. If there''s no risk, there''s no skin in the game. Losing points, losing the game. Add novelty.

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Why Wordle Works: Lessons for e-Learning

SmartUp

Created by Josh Wardle for his partner, the game has since been bought over by the New York Times for a seven-digit figure. For a game that was originally just for the two of them, it has grown to attract millions of players daily. We enjoy keeping our brains active and love a good brain teaser. Most of us need cognition.

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