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How gamification enhances eLearning solutions

Aptara

Incorporating more game methods into electronic resources could prove instrumental for educational systems and businesses looking to better engage their learners. According to Technorati, one of the major drivers behind the gamification trend is the relationship millennials have with technology. aptaraeditor.

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Herding Cats or Managing Informal Learning

The Learning Circuits

And where is the non-business gossip or the discussion about the best ski resort for a weekend getaway? Any instructional designer can tell you that instructional designs which are are less transparent, more realistic, more "doing vs. learning" take far longer to create than simple, non-contextualized lessons.

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How Do You Communicate with Your E-Learners? - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Because of this you can assess the learner’s understanding and your ability to communicate the lesson and then make any adjustments on the fly. b) I also had the experience of being able to trial some new e-training courses with a group of people from the business who would be users of the system, while I was in the same room.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Tell me your latest/greatest books on learning.

Mark Oehlert

January 23, 2008 in Books | Permalink Technorati Tags : books , learning TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Tell me your latest/greatest books on learning. Robinson promotes creativity (same as "innovation" in business circles). books futures Web 2.0

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Escape from Compliance Training Jail - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

So while your points are spot on, in the interest of my job security, I’m not going to show your post to my management or business sponsors! I am trying to design an e-course on,&# designing and developing PowerPoint-based lesson plan that incorporate Gagen 9 events&#. Technorati. January 29th, 2008. February 7th, 2008.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Reflecting on the e-Learning Guild Annual Gathering

Mark Oehlert

Nexlearn produces a tool called SimWriter which really makes the process of creating branching stories really very simple - that doesnt mean its easy - in fact I think one of the great lessons for people will be how quickly it can get difficult to add all the branches and nuances you want. See Carl Jung quote below. Overall.great conference!

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

Xyleme

So I dug deep into the comments and survey results to see what lessons I could apply to our next event. The inventive CLOs and others who are establishing more social approaches are probably too busy to spend time taking surveys! What I saw from these results is that we were potentially on to something.