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Revolutionizing Employee Training: McDonald’s POS Training Simulator

Epilogue Systems

Gone are the days of monotonous lectures and shadowing seasoned cashiers. But its impact goes beyond just button-mashing. So, take a page out of their playbook, ditch the dry textbooks and fire up the training simulator. It took careful planning, development, and a willingness to break the mold.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Instead of coding, programmers built apps by mashing up shared packages of code. To tell her friends about breaking up with her boyfriend, she references a song from Life of Brian, Always look on the bright side of life. Professors give horrible lectures on esoteric subjects. How much of my code can be recycled?

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a December 2011 issue of Business Insider, the mobile apps analytics firm Distimo said many popular apps were games such as Angry Birds, social networking such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter, and other content such as Google Maps and iBooks. Don’t try to be a Swiss Army knife for everything in education.”

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Commonly Used Training Evaluations Models: A Discussion with Dr. Will Thalheimer

Convergence Training

Convergence Training: I’m sure people will be like sponging that up. And last year, I thought I would capture maybe 15 to 20 of these, but I came up with 54. They’re all mashed together. And then level two learning is mashed up. Convergence Training: The full screen, not just one PowerPoint slide.