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The first Growth Engineering users begin their ISMM eLearning journey

After months of hard work cre­at­ing highly enga­ging, ISMM accred­ited eLearn­ing our first users have finally taken to the Academy to begin their learn­ing jour­ney. For many, it is their first chance to see Growth Engineering’s pion­eer­ing learn­ing meth­od­o­logy, ‘the Dis­cov­ery Method’ in action. We have care­fully designed our eLearn­ing con­tent to be as interactive […]

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Download PDF: Revolutionising the Academy Platform LMS through gamification

There is an unruly mass of deadly dull eLearn­ing plat­forms out there. Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tems designed with the base level of func­tion­al­ity in mind. The gen­eral approach is as fol­lows: login and plug away. The prob­lem, for most users, is that this offers all the appeal of a minor head-cold. Growth Engin­eer­ing hold that the […]

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The Case for Gamification:

Gami­fic­a­tion is much more than a mar­ket­ing tool. As imple­men­ted on our Academy Plat­form LMS it is cap­able of engin­eer­ing unpre­ced­en­ted levels of user engage­ment. The fear is that gami­fic­a­tion will help exacer­bate a reward-based cul­ture. That’s to say, we won’t be motiv­ated to act unless it will gen­er­ate a reward. We won’t do something […]

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How gamification has shaped our attitude towards failure

Video games are mas­ter­ful in their abil­ity to find the right dif­fi­culty level to engage their user. The aim is to cre­ate some­thing that is chal­len­ging enough to gen­er­ate some sense of accom­plish­ment when object­ives are met. But it must also be access­ible enough to pre­vent the frus­tra­tion that comes with con­stant fail­ure. Growth Engineering’s […]

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How a Gamified Academy Platform LMS engineers engagement:

At Growth Engin­eer­ing we’re experts at con­coct­ing engage­ment. Our Plat­form is designed to keep learners trans­fixed and motiv­ated. Fogg’s beha­vi­oural model doc­u­ments how cer­tain beha­viours can be determ­ined. The three key ele­ments involved here are: Motiv­a­tion Abil­ity Trig­gers Provide all three at the same time and tar­geted beha­viours can be determ­ined. Thus, to determ­ine a user […]

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Can Gamification make learning fun?

Intro­du­cing gami­fic­a­tion fea­tures onto Academy Plat­forms is pivotal to answer­ing the reg­u­lar cri­ti­cisms of online learn­ing. But what exactly is gami­fic­a­tion? Loosely defined, gami­fic­a­tion “is the applic­a­tion of gam­ing mech­an­ics to non-gaming envir­on­ments”. It’s an attempt to take all the things we like about games – the fun factor, the chal­lenges, the poten­tial for rewards, […]

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Gamification and our Academy Platform LMS: The Basics

There is an unruly mass of deadly dull eLearn­ing plat­forms out there. Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tems designed with the base level of func­tion­al­ity in mind. The gen­eral approach is as fol­lows: login and plug away. The prob­lem, for most users, is that this offers all the appeal of a minor head-cold. We believe that learn­ing does […]

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Bensons for Beds Case Study

A case study show­ing the impact for Ben­sons for Beds on the launch­ing of their own Ben­sons Academy. With 300+ retail stores they had a need to rad­ic­ally change their L&D struc­ture. They needed to deliver a com­pany wide change com­mu­nic­a­tion pro­gramme as well as a sig­ni­fic­ant cost sav­ing. Find out how they did this.

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Download PDF: Winning Edge Article on Sales Academies

Download PDF: Winning Egde Article on Sales Academies

This art­icle looks at what a sales academy is and how the approach works for organ­isa­tions look­ing to cre­ate a high per­form­ance sales force.

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What are the benefits of a blended learning approach?

What are the benefits of a blended learning approach?

they found that blen­ded learn­ing delivered a 12% increase in pro­ductiv­ity, as against a 10% increase for instructor led training.

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Learning Management Systems — Frequently Asked Questions

Learning Management Systems – Frequently Asked Questions

What is an LMS?
An LMS can be thought of like an elec­tronic school. In a school, you enrol stu­dents, con­duct classes, track attend­ance, admin­is­ter tests and exams, and provide certificates.

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