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Blending Fantasy with Reality Drives Successful Alternate Reality Games
Alternate reality games (ARGs) are an effective way to hone essential soft skills, such as communication, collaborative problem-solving, critical thinking, and negotiation; the games can be used to teach “harder” skills as well, such as digital media literacy, or to deliver compliance training. Find out more in this article!
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Toolkit: Upgrading Minds, Upgrading Tools: Raptivity and iSpring
As time passes, more authoring tools have moved from our hard drives to the cloud. Pricing has changed, at the same time, from periodic purchase of a new version on a new CD or DVD to an annual subscription that results in a new version over time through incremental updates. Here is Joe’s take on this, plus news about changes to two important tools.
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Buzzword Decoder: Serious Games and Gamification
Serious learning games present opportunities to create engaging and interesting content that learners voluntarily spend time with—and learn from. Gamification also engages learners and might draw them in to spend more time with eLearning content. This article explains both approaches.
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Access to Experts: Seven Steps to Leveraging the Expertise in Your Organization
Can people in your organization get critical expert advice with ease and confidence? Here are seven steps to create or improve your expert network.
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Raise the Bar: Five Ways to Make Slides More Engaging with Photoshop
Create slides that engage—no matter whether your students are sitting with you in a classroom or watching you in a virtual environment. Two skills are involved here: creativity and production. With a little of both, you can greatly improve the quality of your presentation. Here are five techniques to get you started.
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Beyond Multiple Choice: Seven Strategies for Assessing eLearning Effectiveness
Is your eLearning successful? A learner’s ability to correctly answer multiple-choice or true-false questions doesn’t mean that she can apply that knowledge to doing her job. Use these strategies to measure learning more deeply.
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Book Review: Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning, 2nd Edition
Michael Allen’s Guide was originally published in 2003. The second edition has been released, containing significant changes from the original.
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Research Spotlight: Using Interactive Video to Enhance Onboarding and Engagement: Allianz Global Investors
It is no secret that employers within the global financial services and banking sectors have endured tough times during the past decade. Employers in these sectors face serious issues with low morale, high turnover, and job candidates who no longer view the sector as a desirable career. Learn how the L&D team at Allianz Global Investors used interactive video to confront these challenges.
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Waterfalls or Whirlpools: Why Use an Instructional Development Model?
Using a model helps with the identification and analysis of a problem, the description and prediction of potential ways to address the problem, and the conceptualization, design, and implementation of a solution. In eLearning development, it can ensure addressing the real need, rather than simply creating training. Here are some of the most-used models.
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In Real Life: Enabling Your Knowledge-Sharing Advocates
In an ideal world, workplace information and experience would flow together into a powerful collection of shared knowledge. Employees and teams would know what to share and how best to share it. L&D would focus on tools and enablement rather than content and control. Sorry to disappoint, but we don’t live (or work) in that world. Yet we could. Here’s how to get on the road to that world.