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25 Random Acts of Kindness for L&D Professionals

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Kindness makes the world a better place. Write a glowing review or testimonial for a company you’ve done business with. Leave a nice comment on a video, social media post, or blog that you appreciate. Write a stellar LinkedIn recommendation for someone you’ve worked with. Play a board game with your family or friends.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

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.

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Designing eLearning Games Using Interactive Stories

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction I’ve been playing video games quite a bit lately. Mainly, I’ve been trying out new-to-me games that use interactive stories, gathering ideas for a project. I’ve also been scouring the internet for examples of various types of eLearning games. As I told my husband, “it’s research, I swear.”

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Learning Games and Gamification

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction The Training, Learning, and Development Community recently hosted Learning by Doing: Games and Gamification for Instructional Design. It was three days with ten sessions and fourteen speakers that added up to one amazing conference focused on learning games.

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Engaging Learning Activities for Students: Spark Curiosity and Boost Achievement!

Kitaboo

Types of Engaging Learning Activities for K12 Students Debates and Role Plays Brainstorming Sessions Games and Gamification Storytelling and Creative Writing Hands-On Experiments and Demonstrations Educational Trips and Virtual Tours III. They encourage students to actively participate and engage with the study material.

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Tradeoffs in Scenarios-Based Learning: Costs and Impact

Upside Learning

None of this should be different, but in our experience, the ways of thinking about changing how you write questions does take some time. Going beyond, to full simulation-driven experiences, serious games, is another matter. 3D environments, e.g. virtual reality, or alternate reality games will similarly be dearer.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. 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. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg. Go take a peek.