While labor woes are spurring many organizations to accelerate their efforts in exploring automation and technology, one rather interesting, and somewhat outside the norm area of technology that shows potential, and is being used by some organizations such as Amazon to enhance employee engagement and retention is gamification.
Read MoreIf we're striving for higher order thinking and maximum learning transfer, then we're giving up a golden opportunity when we forgo informative feedback and instead resort to corrective feedback. Corrective feedback informs the learner whether their response is correct or incorrect but gives no explanation.
Read MorePlay is the best way to consolidate any form of information. It is the language children speak, adults utilize it to encourage team building, and it's a great way to instigate competition. When we look at the importance of games, either in a professional environment or as a way to learn, we need to see the benefits of what play can do. Games are a fantastic resource, even when they are used in a passive sense, such as video games or in a testing environment such as a learning game. But how do games make you better at strategy and becoming a better strategist?
Read MoreFeedback can be a powerful force in college classrooms, and there are ways to make the experience of providing and receiving it even stronger.
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