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eCombat: Lessons from the Interactive Battlefields of Afghanistan

Vignettes Learning

Spencer Ackerman features Vanguard of Valor, an interactive teaching tool built to instruct the mid-career officers who pass through the Army’s Combined Arms Center, about the lessons accumulated from years of hard-fought war in Afghanistan. Vanguard of Valor also contains a compendium of lessons learned from past military engagements.

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5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in the Classroom

LearnDash

AR can boost student engagement and help lessons be more memorable. Marker-based uses: Marker-based AR applications are ones that can recognize or scan an object using the phone’s camera. For instance, they may scan a QR code, or they may identify features on a model or manikin. Safety and compliance lessons.

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The happy selfscanner: lessons about introducing new technologies

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Yet I've thrown myself into the self-scan adventure because it seemed a good experience. The first day after the opening as self-scan supermarket there was immediately a girl at the entrance who invited me to try out self-scanning. There was no code to scan on the banana. Scanning and searching the code also takes time.

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Let’s Talk Scenarios! Bryan chats with Anna Sabramowicz

eLearningArt

I think watching the whole interview is great … but, if you’re short on time, scan the topics below and jump to the section that interests you most: How I got started in eLearning – I’m an accidental instructional designer, too. ( My biggest career lesson – There’s passion, and there’s drive, which one comes first in success? (

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What Copywriting Can Teach Us About Writing for an Audience

Association eLearning

This technique can be used when creating lessons and courses as well. Just make sure your stories are relevant and support the lesson, and include elements of all good stories. Many readers begin something first by scanning it to see if it’s relevant to them and let’s be honest… to get the highlights. And finally….

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The 4 lessons Kid Fury teaches us

E-Learning Provocateur

Scan the web for mentions of your brand. if you don’t scan Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Foursquare and other forums for mentions of your brand, you don’t know what your customers (and prospective customers, and employees, and ex-employees) are saying about you. And you need to ensure they know it. In this age of Web 2.0,

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6 Visual Design Tips to Make Your Course More Effective

LearnDash

The lesson for educators is clear: Visual design is an essential part of a good learning experience. Organize content so that it can be scanned in an E. When Focus Mode is enabled, it automatically removes the main navigation, footer, and any additional side bars from the screen so that the learner can focus entirely on lesson content.

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