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GuildChat. Learning and play. Friday, March 13, 2020. 11 AM Pacific. 2 PM Eastern.

#GuildChat for 03/13/20: Learning and Play

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, March 13th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. This week’s chat is on Learning and Play. Play can have a lot of meaning when it comes to learning. As kids, we often used play and experimentation to figure out the world around us. As …

#GuildChat for 06/01/18: Creating Engaging Simulations

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, June 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is  Creating Engaging Simulations. Simulating authentic events for training and development is nothing new however with the advent of new technologies over the years the ability to create different types …

When Simulations Work – Jenny Saucerman

This guest post comes to us from Jenny Saucerman, an instructional designer at Web Courseworks. She’s also an upcoming speaker at Learning Solutions 2018 Conference & Expo, where she’ll be facilitating a hands-on workshop on building branching scenarios. As instructional designers, we are constantly on the lookout for new educational tools. Some …

#GuildChat for 06/16/17: Learning in Context

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, June 16th at 11AM PT/2PM ET. This week’s topic is Learning in Context. It’s more than a common sense idea; we learn “better” in the context in which we will and do use the skill. There have been studies, one of the more famous was the …