Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Rewards are an important part of game play. People do not play games just for the rewards but rewards can help with motivation, provide feedback to learners about progress and rewards are a way of being judged favorably by the game. Reward shelf from The Knowledge Guru. Here is a list of common types of rewards primarily compiled by Jesse Schell, a game developer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'I started my journey with Harbinger Systems sometime back. Though I am just a couple of months old here, the knowledge and exposure which I have received has been enormous. I have interacted and learned a lot from my colleagues who always push and encourage me to dabble in new things. A few days back, one of my colleagues mentioned about The Internet of Things (IOT) to me.
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Absorb LMS
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the instructors to clarify to what extent these exams would influence the final class grade. If the exam in one class was worth, say, 25 per cent of the final grade, and the exam in the other class was worth 50 per cent of the final grade, she would spend significantly more of her efforts studying for t
LearnDash
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'We have all been there before. You see a great service or product, and you think to yourself, “wow, there is a good opportunity here” So you spend some time getting your website together, establishing an online identity, and detailing your services (or perhaps product). Unfortunately, many people who do this just look at their competition.
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Absorb LMS
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the instructors to clarify to what extent these exams would influence the final class grade. If the exam in one class was worth, say, 25 per cent of the final grade, and the exam in the other class was worth 50 per cent of the final grade, she would spend significantly more of her efforts studying for t
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eLearning Brothers
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'So you want to develop an eLearning course huh? But you are not a graphic designer, and need some tips on eLearning Art and Design to get you started? Here is the second post of my three-part series on eLearning Art and Design tips for the non-designer. Click here to read my first post on eLearning Art and Design Tips for the Non-Designer (Part 1).
Absorb LMS
OCTOBER 9, 2014
A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the instructors to clarify to what extent these exams would influence the final class grade. If the exam in one class was worth, say, 25 per cent of the final grade, and the exam in the other class was worth 50 per cent of the final grade, she would spend significantly more of her efforts studying for th
SHIFT eLearning
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'"Training doesn’t help one jot if people can’t remember it in the real world" —Teresa Ewington. Our biggest goal in training is to get students to remember the material. In order to do this more effectively, it helps to understand exactly what causes the mind to forget things. By understanding what makes a person forget, we can incorporate things into our programs that help counteract those causes.
TalentLMS
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'If you’re into eLearning you must have heard of a concept called Social Learning. On the contrary to some myths, it’s not a new thing. It’s actually the oldest way of learning that we know. It is all about learning from each other, just like you did when you were a kid and friends were showing you how to kick the ball. It’s a known fact that learning through mimicking others, through discussion and working in a group brings better results than acquiring knowledge and ski
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DigitalChalk eLearning
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Whether you are surfing the web or slowly building your online course, chances are that you’ll run into a few infographics along the way. Infographics have been growing in popularity over the years and they are typically educational, entertaining, and useful tools. But what exactly is an infographic? Well, it is a visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data.
Trivantis
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'In college, I had to take an entire semester of Typography. That’s right—in the realm of higher education, there exists a semester-long, 400-level course all about typefaces. Spoiler alert: If you’re trying to tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, look at the differences of the uppercase G or the lowercase t. Or you can take a look at the helpful graphic I’ve mocked up here with the help of Buzzfeed’s extremely informative Cats as Fonts article.
OpenSesame
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Hello! I’m Whitney Ashe and I’m OpenSesame’s new Lead Development Rep. I’m excited to join the OpenSesame team and get the chance to work with some of you that I’ve met through BlueVolt. Before I came to OpenSesame, I was at Nordstrom for a brief stint. Before that, I was the Project Manager for BlueVolt’s creative team. During my transition to Nordstrom, I very quickly realized that I missed the elearning environment, as well as the culture that both BlueVolt and OpenSesame embrace.
TechSmith Camtasia
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Are you an educator who wants to learn from others and get inspired? Perhaps you’re excited about a new discovery, device, or idea that you’d like to share? Maybe you’re just curious about using technology in education, but don’t know where to begin? Well, have we got an answer for you: host a CoffeeEDU ! CoffeeEDU is the brainchild of edTech superstar, Alice Keeler.
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OpenSesame
OCTOBER 9, 2014
Hello! I’m Whitney Ashe and I’m OpenSesame’s new Lead Development Rep. I’m excited to join the OpenSesame team and get the chance to work with some of you that I’ve met through BlueVolt. Before I came to OpenSesame, I was at Nordstrom for a brief stint. Before that, I was the Project Manager for BlueVolt’s creative team. During my transition to Nordstrom, I very quickly realized that I missed the elearning environment, as well as the culture that both BlueVolt and OpenSesame embrace.
cogentys
OCTOBER 9, 2014
' I want you to get the most out of your retail learning management system! Okay, you know you need to implement a retail learning management system, but you need the boss to sign off on your. [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].
Aptara
OCTOBER 9, 2014
Tablet content presents a unique case. Creating mobile content would be complicated enough if it were merely for the many different smartphones on the market. The emergence of tablets has put this function into a whole new light and added another wrinkle to companies' efforts to reach consumers where they are. Tablets are growing larger, close in screen size to laptops.
Living in Learning
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Trolling through my networking groups on LinkedIn yesterday, a post caught my eye where an individual was lamenting how the disjointedness of running disparate systems compromised effective and efficient operations. The suggested solution was a desire for the creation of a unified enterprise platform to eliminate the disparity. I agree that unification is the answer…but not among disparate systems.
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Gyrus
OCTOBER 9, 2014
e-Learning Best Practices, and why they can fail from the very start. There are a lot of things that need to go right for your web based content to be successful. Some of them are easy to see. Like when a learner launches a course and the video refuses to play. Others are harder to see. Like when the internet connection that learner is using gets bogged down and the course never shows up.
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