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

Dashe & Thomson

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.” It is amazing ho.

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

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by Paul on March 23, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Opening weekend of March Madness is over. After a game is complete, the coach will break down the film, showing players what they did right and wrong. The plan starts in the classroom and eventually makes its way onto the practice court. It is amazing ho.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

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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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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6 Examples Of Self-Paced Learning In Business

Academy of Mine

With traditional in-person college courses, students are required to show up and learn in physical classrooms at a specific time, usually multiple times per week. Would training quality stay relatively the same or improve from dialing back the need to do everything in person? Who can benefit from Self-Paced learning?

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6 Examples Of Self-Paced Learning In Business

Academy of Mine

With traditional in-person college courses, students are required to show up and learn in physical classrooms at a specific time, usually multiple times per week. Would training quality stay relatively the same or improve from dialing back the need to do everything in person? Who can benefit from Self-Paced learning?