Talent Development professionals are constantly bombarded with emails, calls and chats from learning solution providers. The options provided can be quite diverse and many providers claim expertise in multiple categories. How then do we filter the ones that provide quality-learning solutions from those are merely great at marketing?
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Gamification
Gamification of Learning: The Benefits
Actual games are still taboo in most organisations where the stereotype of the work-avoiding employee cracking new high scores in Minesweeper has given gaming a bad name. In addition also, the corporate executive playing games to improve his or her strategy-making skills is still rare. Therefore the authors think that the next generation strategy games will finally be able to prove a real business case. Visual materials are great to foster intellectual understanding, but they are not interactive and do not reflect the reality of busy schedules and declining attention spans. While coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. Games on the other hand, can create an experiential, interactive and tailored understanding of strategy at low cost and in a scalable manner. They also allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective multi-variate medium for absorbing ideas.
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Global L&D
3 Ways to Increase Your Memory Retention During the Festive Season
It’s the year of the rooster and we from Think Codex would like to wish everyone of you a Happy Chinese New Year. This time around, we thought it would be interesting to share with you some tips on how to remember the things you have learnt, and at the same time enjoy your moments with your family and friends so you could spearhead the year with full force.
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Gamification
Make Corporate Learning Fun Again
They say all play and no work makes jack a lazy boy. But what if we are able to make work fun again? This is why here at Think Codex, we aspire to design and promote learning through the medium of play. To be specific, we design simulations based on the learning needs of corporations. Play has been around in our ages and we believe that through simulations, we are able to help build ownership and practice within the participants, which will enhance the learning process.
