SIMmersion has developed a series of virtual role-play clients with substance abuse disorders to help Peer Support Specialists build needed skills. As shown in the Figure provided by the National Institute…
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Making E-learning More Interesting –Microlearning Modules
People who buy and manage employee training have told me that they want to limit the time employees spend training. The cost of employee time away from the job effectively adds to…
Making E-Learning More Interesting – Blending Classroom & E-Learning
Classroom Training Interactions between students and instructors in a classroom helps keep the attention focused on the topic of discussion. Instructors may call on a student for their opinion, have open and…
Making E-Learning More Interesting – Motivating the Learning
Decades of classroom teaching and online experience have provided me with some insights into how we can make e-learning more interesting. One particularly memorable classroom experience happened when two of my students…
Making E-Learning More Interesting – Mixing the Educational and Skill-Building Components
Training can be divided into an educational component and a practice or skill-building component. Often in traditional classroom training, there is a lecture explaining concepts and methods followed by exercises or homework…
Making E-learning More Interesting – A Quick Look at Gamification
We play games for fun and at the same time improve our skills, whether we’re playing cards, football, or a PlayStation® game. Gamification of training is intended to make it fun and…
Making E-learning Interesting: Connecting with the Training Content
In the early 2000s, e-learning was touted as the new great thing that would quickly replace traditional classroom training. Everyone wanted it. Text was quickly being digitized and called e-learning, but for…
A View of SIMmersion After 20 Years
SIMmersion recently celebrated 20 years of delivering virtual role-play training systems. There were reasons why we beat the odds and were successful. Starting a New Technology Company In 1995, I was working…