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When Gamification Goes Wrong: Avoid These Hazards When Gamifying eLearning Content
When implementing gamified content, it’s easy to lose sight of learning goals. Avoiding the pitfalls described here can ensure that gamification succeeds!
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xAPI Camp Recap: Learning Solutions 2017, Orlando
xAPI Camps offer a day-long immersive experience around the Experience API. Intended to help participants understand the totality of what is possible with xAPI, the camps meet the needs of beginners and experts alike. Here’s a summary of the xAPI Camp held at Learning Solutions 2017 in March!
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Toolkit: The New Captivate 2017 Edition
Adobe Captivate 2017 has been released, and once again Adobe has forged ahead and not rested on its laurels. It has brought Captivate even further into modern times. No other authoring tool contains as many features as Captivate does to customize the different views. The others may be a bit simpler, but they lack some of the power. Some still don’t offer responsive design at all.
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Three Initiatives Aim to Educate Tomorrow’s Employees Today
How to get young people, particularly girls and people of color, engaged in STEM fields is a topic of much discussion—and some action. This article looks at three programs that engage underserved youths in technology.
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Questionmark Taps Credly to Help Learners Share Achievements Online
This partnership will allow organizations to issue digital credentials as employees demonstrate competencies and acquire new skills in high-demand fields.
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Case Study: Vistaprint Hacks a Path to eLearning Solutions
Vistaprint applies the “hackathon” approach to developing eLearning—with astounding results!
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Research Spotlight: Next Generation of Asynchronous Authoring Tools
In October 2013, The eLearning Guild published a comprehensive research report on asynchronous authoring tools. Now we present our 2017 report, which provides major updates on the impact of technologies not widely used back in 2013, as well as functional requirements for authoring tool selection and additional features essential in today’s asynchronous authoring environment.
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Engaging eLearning on a Budget: Tools Roundup
Free and low-cost tools are available to help eLearning developers create engaging content without breaking the bank. Here are some suggestions for budget-friendly video, animation, and polling tools.
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In Real Life: What I’ve Learned After 15 Years of Playing Games at Work
Practical takeaways from using game elements to support workplace learning.
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Getting Started with xAPI: Take a Hike with an Expert
All fired up about xAPI? Maybe you were at an xAPI Camp at a Guild conference, read a blog post, or checked out some demos, and you’re eager to dive in. It’s like having a new, shiny piece of equipment, and you’re just itching to find a reason to use it. Well, then, let’s get you started!