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Met some wonderful people and had a great time at the inaugural SPBT event The medical Device and Diagnostic Trainers Summit. The presentation was a great deal of fun. We played “Fact or Fishy” which resulted in a tie between team A and Team B. We had a wonderful tour of Princeton (lot of smart […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →For those of you who may not know, Michael W. Allen is a leader in the field of design, developing and delivering online instruction. He is the author of seven book including a best-seller on creating effective e-learning and in has received ASTD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award in 2011. He founded […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here are some tips for teaching expert learners. As employees and learners gain experience performing tasks and learning information, they develop mental representations known as mental models or a schema. These mental models are used by individuals to drive performance, make decisions and interpret a situation. These models are not necessarily completely accurate understandings but […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The blog book tour for The Gamification of Learning and Instruction has come to an end. I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the tour. THANK YOU! The tour gained a great deal of momentum and has served to raise the awareness of gamification (both the pros and the cons). To date, the tour […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Just read an article in our local newspaper that indicated the state of Pennsylvania spent $30 million dollars last year on testing. It kinda made me sick…especially since fill-in-the-blank testing only really has value when measuring a person’s ability to be successful at fill-in-the-blank tests, no real-world application. Games would be so much better at […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here are three thoughts I had the other day when I was discussing gamification with some folks. 1) The term “game” has some really positive associations with it. Lots of people like to play games and games mostly seem to be fun but the term also causes people to have some really negative reactions. I […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →My friend, Randy Ran Hinrichs, of 2b3d who has a wonderful motto of “Move Photons, Not People” is offering a program that you need to take advantage of if you are involved, interested or curious about 3D virtual worlds. The program is offered for credit from the University of Washington office of Professional and Continuing […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →As learning professionals, it is important that we understand that novice learners and expert learners demand/require and need a different approach to instruction. You cannot develop learning events for novices using the same instructional strategies as you do for someone who has a high level of knowledge in a content area. In fact, Ruth Clark […]
Continue Reading →Here are some slides and the articles I referenced in my presentation to a great group of folks today. Fall 2011 Training Industry Quarterly Article: Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer July 2012 T&D Article: Games, Gamification and the Quest for Interactive Learning Fall 2012 Training Industry Quarterly Article 5 Gaming Elements for elearning […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This weekend I finished my first ever Olympic Length Triathlon (although I think the bike was a little shorter than Olympic distance and the swim a bit longer). Anyway it was 1 mile swim, 20 mile Bike and 6.2 mile run. It was the Second Annual Atlantic City Triathlon. The event included a sprint triathlon […]
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