AJ OConnell

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7 Common Gamification Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Gamification in training has aged well.
In the few years gamified e-learning has been around, it has grown from a buzzword into a mainstay of online training.
The fact that it’s been around for a few years hasn’t dampened the corporate training market’s enthusiasm for adding points, badges, and leaderboards to learning. If anything, L&D leaders are more interested in gamifying training. A new report from Technavio projects the global gamified training market will grow at a rate of 9.99 percen...

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AI, Machine Learning, and Your Business

The robots are here, but are we ready to work with them? There are a lot of barriers to AI adoption in the workplace. Here are some ways we can welcome (and work well with) our new AI overlords.

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Using Microlearning to Accelerate Productivity

You’re right in the middle of a big project at work, something you need to get done today, but — oh no — you can feel yourself getting hungry. You can’t work like this. You need to eat. So what do you do: get a snack, or go out for a long lunch with co-workers?
Of course you get the snack. If you went out for the long lunch, your project wouldn’t get done. Also, the interruption would interfere with the flow of the work you were doing. After you return from lunch, you’d have to get back into ...

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How to Fill Your Sales Pipeline With Hot Leads (and Lose the Cold Leads Fast)

If you’re a sales manager – there’s a red hot chance you’ve had this problem:
You’ve got a great team of hard-working sales reps and a pipeline full of leads…
But you’re also not hitting your sales targets.
Despite the fact that your reps are always reaching out to numerous leads, they’re not getting the results you need.
Your loyal, passionate and hard-working sales team spends a lot of time interacting with difficult customers, and they send email after email, only to be met with objection,...

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How University of Arizona Is Solving the Food Crisis

By: A.J. O’Connell
It’s the kind of farming you see in science fiction: plants grown, not in a field, but in a series of tubes rising high into the air in an enclosed space. But vertical farming is very much real. And it’s happening here on Earth, masterminded by University of Arizona professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering Joel Cuello.
Cuello, director of the Global Initiative for Strategic Agriculture in Dry Land, has patented a modular farming system that will allow people to ...

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Lessons Learned From Teaching With Multiple Digital Tools

Back in 2011, I was offered an opportunity by the community college where I was an adjunct to design and teach the institution’s very first digital journalism course.
I’d been teaching there for a few years, advising the student newspaper, and teaching the associated class using a pre-existing syllabus. When the course was offered to me, I jumped at it. I was eager to build something new, and as a newspaper reporter who’d learned to use technology on the job at work, I wanted to develop a cou...

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13 Ways Sales and Marketing can Combine to Close More Deals

Do you feel like your sales team is endlessly spinning its wheels?
Your reps are always busy, and they have lots and lots of leads, but despite the fact that they’re constantly selling – somehow you’re not hitting your sales targets.
A low conversion rate and exhausted reps isn’t a great combination.
Clearly, something has gone wrong.
Part of the problem: your team may have too many leads.
While you may think having a heap of leads is a good thing, sales can be counter intuitive. Quantity is ...

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Adaptive Learning: What Is It And What Does It Mean For Your Learners

Recently, workplace learning expert Donald Taylor released the results of his annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey. In that survey, Taylor asked 885 people from 60 countries one single question: “What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2017?”
The top answer, beating out social learning, micro-learning, and augmented reality, was personalized and adaptive delivery of learning.
Taylor’s survey was specifically about 2017, but adaptive learning has been hot for a few years. Time wrote about the adapt...

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Psychology & Technology: 4 Ways to Engage Learners With Gamification

Gamified learning has been in the public eye for a while now. The term was coined in 2002 by Nick Pelling, a programmer, but most most people probably became aware of gamification around 2010, when businesses started adding gamification to things like reward systems. It quickly became a buzzword when companies began adding game elements to their products and websites to attract and retain customers.
In case you’re not up on gamified learning, gamification is the use of game elements — points,...

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The impact and importance of leadership training

Is leadership training really necessary, or do great leaders do their best learning on the job?

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5 tactics to convert employees who resist continuous learning

In an economy filled with rapidly changing technology, continuous learning is vital for both organizations and their employees. It has to be — according to Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report, the half life of a skill is five years.
Employees have to keep on top of their learning to stay relevant, and employers’ traditional centralized methods of training (corporate universities, for example), just cannot keep up. It makes sense that, according to Deloitte, 83 percent of compan...

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How Kickstarter Is Changing Publishing

The crowdfunding platform lets authors skip the hurdles of traditional book publishing—but is it worth it?

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Simple Ways To Build a Culture of Continuous Learning at Work

Learning and development is in the middle of an exciting transformation.
New technology, the changing nature of work, and an influx of millennials into the workplace mean companies have to move away from a training culture — in which companies serve specific training to employees — to a culture of continuous learning.
The need to do this is pressing — transforming corporate learning emerged as the second most important trend in Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report. The reason? R...

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Augmented Intelligence, Not Artificial Intelligence: E-learning’s Game-Changer

Artificial intelligence is a term that comes with a lot of baggage, thanks to popular culture. From Asimov to Westworld, machines that act and think like humans are a mainstay in science fiction.

In reality, however, there are limits to what artificial intelligence can do: machines don’t make good decisions on their own, and they’re not creative. Examples of the limitations of AI abound: Last year, for example, trolls corrupted Tay, Microsoft’s Twitter bot, so badly she had to be taken offlin...