Joel Ippel, Author at MindSpring

Gamification

Building A True Learning Experience Game: Decision Points, Design Steps & Development Tips

You already know that games can be powerful tools for enhancing learning experiences. But what happens when you want to move beyond including gamification elements in traditional eLearning? What is it like to create an actual game that motivates and fully engages your audience? How will you know it’s time to move to a true game? How are such things actually achieved?

September 30, 2021

The 4 Ways Augmented Reality Fosters Success on Service Teams

AR is proving to be a vital answer for these challenges and is providing a step forward to the future of digital thinking in manufacturing. With more innovative AR solutions becoming available for service organizations, companies are seeing 4 big benefits.

September 30, 2021

Gamification

Building A True Learning Experience Game: Decision Points, Design Steps, And Development Tips

What process do organizations go through when deciding to build a true learning experience game? This eBook is that story…a fable if you will. The company, AshCom, is fictional, but their story is based on a real company that wanted to increase its managers’ financial literacy. The learning team’s challenge is to find a way to increase management’s understanding of corporate finance, not a subject that is near and dear to most peoples’ hearts.

September 14, 2021

Mobile Learning

How L&D Leaders Are Using Mobile Learning To Increase Performance And Revenue

The company featured in this fable, AshCom, is fictional, but the mobile learning challenges faced by Kathryn, AshCom’s CLO, and her team are real and commonly shared by learning teams in corporations, non-profits, associations, and education. Download this eBook to connect with the characters, their challenges, and the custom mobile app solutions they discover.

July 15, 2021

3 Ways Augmented Reality is Changing the World of Workforce Training

By integrating augmented reality training methods into the workforce, innovative and modern companies will have the puzzle pieces needed to accelerate learning curves, prevent knowledge loss, and solve the ever-growing problem of cost efficiency in traditional training methods.

June 15, 2021

Curriculum Mapping

A Journey Through Curriculum Mapping: A Large Manufacturer Learns to See the Big Picture

Kathryn’s learning team functioned well. They were in the third year of a five-year plan that was clear and had a dedicated budget to accomplish its objectives. The main goal each year was to update 10% of their learning assets and make them available in digital format.

June 5, 2021

Augmented Reality: The Next Step To Getting Frontline Workers Back On Track

During a time where all workers are eager to get back to their everyday routines, safety needs to be put at the forefront of every company’s new operations plans. Let’s breakdown three of the biggest ways using innovative technology to support your team can build success for your company from bottom to top.

April 22, 2021

Curriculum Mapping

A Step-By-Step Guide To Nail Your Training Needs Analysis: 7 Essential Elements

Kathryn, the chief learning officer of a large manufacturing company, was recently handed a challenge. Her company acquired another company and was growing from 4,500 to 7,000 team members in a matter of weeks. Kathryn’s learning team had to figure out how to provide world-class learning experiences while speeding up their transition to digital. What she needed was a thorough needs analysis. The learning experts at Inno-Versity are going to tell the story of Kathryn’s needs analysis journey.

April 20, 2021

Mindspring Partners With Feyen Zylstra to Establish West Michigan As A Destination For Industry 4.0 Solutions

Feyen Zylstra and Th3rd Coast Digital Solutions, a global leader in emerging and immersive technology solutions for enterprise clients, are partnering to establish West Michigan as a leading Extended Reality (XR) and Industry 4.0 hub.

April 16, 2021

Curriculum Mapping

How To Change The Way You Approach Needs Analysis: A Story Around the 7 Essential Elements

This eBook is written as a story. It’s a fable, if you will. But even though the company, AshCom, is fictional, the learning challenges faced by Kathryn, AshCom’s CLO, and her team are real and commonly shared by learning teams in corporations, non-profits, associations, and education. While this might not be the typical format for an eBook on Learning Needs Analysis, it is our hope that you will be able to connect with the characters, their challenges, and the solutions they discover. Building and following a Needs Analysis system is vital to the success of the learning opportunities we create. Get an inside glimpse of this essential process as AshCom follows the seven elements of the Needs Analysis.

March 30, 2021

3 Pillars That Should Be The Foundation Of Your Learning Objectives

Almost every learning leader has struggled to develop clear, achievable, and definitive learning objectives. Inno-Versity has helped corporate, non-profits, and higher education clients around the world to clearly define and achieve their learning goals. We call it the Know/Do/Believe triangle. While there certainly will be crossover, focusing on what you want learners to know, be able to do, or believe at the end of a learning experience will strengthen your learning objectives and help you achieve them.

February 6, 2021

Microlearning

Why Microlearning Is A Game Changer For Your Training Programs

Microlearning is a wonderful tool for delivering great bite-sized learning content when and where learners need it. More precisely, it is learning suitable for maximum retention and behavioral change. In this way, employees and students can rapidly and efficiently develop their skills and deepen their knowledge. Furthermore, the use of microlearning is effective in specialized training programs, national and international organizations, and educational initiatives.

December 27, 2020

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