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Revolutionizing Employee Training: McDonald’s POS Training Simulator

Epilogue Systems

By simulating real-world situations, training simulators enable learners to gain hands-on experience without the consequences of real-world mistakes. But its impact goes beyond just button-mashing. So, take a page out of their playbook, ditch the dry textbooks and fire up the training simulator.

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Pictures from the Innovations in e-learning conference

Kapp Notes

Here are some photos taken the last day. Here I stand with Sid Meier, game developer guru, apparently, we are both a little blurry for the photo. Henry Kelly, the President of the Federation of American Scientists talks about "The Mashup of Virtual Worlds and Learning" at the conference. Sid was great.

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TCC09: Digital User-Generated Content and Our Emerging Digital Literacy

Experiencing eLearning

“Video mashing, game modding, Youtube, wikis, blogs, and the communities that rise up around them are becoming yet another facet of our communication landscape. Could do other therapy things with virtual worlds–recreating relationships. Liveblogged from the TCC online conference.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Virtual Worlds/Reality - Second Life. Photo/Image sharing – Flickr. Open Source/Mashups - APis, open source – while open source and APIs are not social media, they will enable multi-faceted social media features and capabilities. Actually, in some circles, mashups are considered a form of social media.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. Then the world wide web. Self Serve Can also pick up packaged food -- self-service from a vending machine, etc. About Gary: Classroom teacher in the early 70s. 1984 doctorate in applied psychology. Lives in Ontario, Canada.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a baggage handler accessing a job aid on his or her bag tag scanner or a copy machine service technician connecting via the machine interface to a live, virtual mentor. Collaborative learning also can be informal discussion groups in Yammer, rating content on SharePoint or mashing up a video.

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First Time Visitor Guide

Tony Karrer

Once we've interacted to some level, you might consider linking up with my via LinkedIn - I found this to be a good way to stay connected with people. Start-Up Guides Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Informal Learning, Communities, Bottom-up vs. eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift eLearning 1.0, eLearning 2.0