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

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? Those of you that enjoyed the non-stop college basketball action, whether at home, at the games, or in Vegas, are trudging back to your offices.

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Supercomputer's Win on Jeopardy: Little Comfort to Those.

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Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! Rob Mueller: Great post on using games as a training device. A lot of people, apparently, agree. is little more than a publicity stunt.

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

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Plagued by his trademark stammer Bertie engaged the help of an innovative speech therapist who the world bypassed for his lack of traditional credentials. Rob Mueller: Great post on using games as a training device. Jim: Glad you enjoyed the post, Liam! It is amazing ho. Liam McCoy: Thanks for this. Ive been looking for some ammo t.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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He broke to the world what is most likely going to be the biggest story of the year, while it was happening in complete secrecy. As I write this blog, the man now has 94,894 followers on Twitter and every major news outlet in the world is scrambling for an interview. Rob Mueller: Great post on using games as a training device.