If you build, they come… If that’s not the case, you must do something about motivating people to go to your course. One creative way to do that is the following: Business Problem: Let’s assume you have a short quiz you...

Heading to ATD ICE in May? Let’s bound! Meeting like-minded L&D professionals from all over the world is exciting. This time, we’re doing a little gamification experiment to make networking even more fun. Let’s disrupt! Let’s bound! Come and join...

Example of Using Parallel Effect (and markers) in Storyline What you need: Slider 1: picture in the background (city and sky) Slider 2: picture in the front (houses) Slider 3: dragging the “day” Slider 1 and Slider 2 are controlled...

Seriously, I’ve been reading articles after articles that start out like that: “Gamification is not about playing games.” Then they go on with game design, game elements, even examples of games in learning. And finally, they conclude that gamification is...

How do you feel about completing a task under time pressure? If there’s one single topic I get asked most about gamifying e-learning is this one: the timer. The story usually goes like this: THE DESIGN Based on an extensive “5 things you...

Working out loud on whimsicability… What I learned last year from David Anderson, Melissa Milloway and Jane Bozarth, is that you never know what people find interesting, useful or even funny. Unless you show your work. Well, it started almost a...

Last year, I started a Work Out Loud (actually Tweak Out Loud) project: a gamified Storyline elearning that addresses common myths about gamification/game-based learning. I’ve learned a lot since the first edition, so here comes Gamification of Thrones v2 It’s...

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure to do two hands-on sessions at the ATD TechKnowledge conference in Las Vegas, NV. The point I was trying to drive home was to use Game Thinking while designing a course or assessment...

I had the honor to speak at the ATD TechKnowledge conference last week in Las Vegas, NV. This is a reflection on things you might find useful or at least interesting as well. Warning: you may need a good cup of coffee...

Using the YouTube iFrame API In Articulate Storyline, you can embed videos and you have full control over them. However, many times you want to show an external YouTube video and yet, you want to be able to pause, restart,...