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This book offers trainers and educators the information and perspective they need to understand, design, build, and deploy computer simulations for this generation. It outlines the design principles and critical decisions around any simulation's components— the interface, the physics and animation …
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Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) consists of two parts. In the first part, Prensky argues that the prevalence of video games has actually rewired our brains and made traditional learning methods less effective. In the second part, Prensky makes the case that DGBL can be used successfully by corpo…
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A guide to creating over 300 special effects for clinical simulations. Simple recipes with over 1,200 vibrant, full-color illustrations provide step-by-step directions that use readily available ingredients. Heighten the realism in your simulations whether using manikins or live actors.
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This book provides the nuts-and-bolts information needed to incorporate e-learning solutions at minimal cost. The author offers strategies for building from-scratch programs, recycling, reusing, and repurposing resources; negotiating reasonable expenses for "store bought" e-learning products; and i…
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This book debunks the accepted wisdom that video games are harmful to children. Instead, he contends that games can teach a multitude of skills, including problem solving, language and cognitive skills, strategic thinking, multitasking, and parallel processing.
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This book details a journey from theory to practice, informing the design of powerful and engaging online learning environments. A consistent theme in this book is the interaction between pedagogical models, instructional strategies, and learning technologies. This process is embedded in a flexible…
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New business realities and customer demands, coupled with new technologies in a changing competitive landscape are causing corporate learning departments to rethink their value, role, and impact in the organization. In a constantly changing business landscape with limited resources and tight budget…
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Offers you a concise and comprehensive overview of performance support (PS) practices - ongoing, job specific resources, that ensure employees perform effectively on the job.
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This concise, yet comprehensive reference provides nurses with a resource for their role in the preceptorship experience, whether they are the preceptors, preceptees, teachers of the educational programs, or administrators of the practice agencies. The book discusses the different dimensions of pre…
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This book emphasizes the concept that every person's viewpoint is unique, that we each have our own reality or story, and that we bring that story to every interaction we have with others. Thus, a critical component of having effective and meaningful dialogue with others is our ability to be aware …
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This text demystifies the many choices involved in developing mobile learning content, and provides real-world experience on how to get down to the business of creating mobile learning. The author's goal is to explain mobile design and development to learning professionals in the context of creatin…
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The ADDIE process is past its prime.; It was developed long before Agile and other iterative processes that have introduced greater efficiencies in design and development, fostered more creativity, and addressed effective stakeholder involvement. Leaving ADDIE for SAM introduces two new concepts - …
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This second edition of an acclaimed book for nurse educators provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulation scenarios and integrating them into the nursing curriculum. Based on extensive discussion with contributing authors and new faculty, the text has been updated…
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For health care providers or educators interested in developing educational material in print or for the Internet, this book provides best practice - supported by knowledge from the emerging field of health literacy. In this 3rd edition new evidence is presented, including information from recent r…
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With the help of families, informed and educated patients can participate in their own treatment, assist in identifying errors before they occur, and improve outcomes. This fact is the foundation of the revised edition of this book, which is designed to guide and support educators at all levels of …
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This book provides short gaming exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. The companion DVD shows the authors introducing and running each of the thirty games. The thirty games are classified by these areas of learning: Systems Thinking, Mental Models, Team Learning, Shared Visi…
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Widely understood to be the best tool of social change, education offers a space to interrogate persistent and damaging oppressions, calling into question the cultural and political antecedents, as well as the current politics and practices, that have facilitated inequity. Educational leaders thems…
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While upbeat lingo abounds about ?complementing strategic objectives? and ?driving productivity,? the fact is that most training does not make a significant enough impact on business results, and when it does, training professionals fail to make a convincing case about the value added to the bottom…
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This practical text/reference provides theory-based approaches to teaching patients of all ages and their families in a variety of healthcare settings.--Table of Contents: Principles of Contemporary Patient Education;; Patient Education in Nursing Practice;; Health Promotion: Models and Application…
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Teaching is one of the most valuable services nurses provide to patients and families. But whether in the hospital, clinic, home, or long-term care facility, other tasks and responsibilities often compete for nurses' time. This book offers nurses useful, everyday information to apply to real-life …
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