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Slides from Serious Games for Human Capital Management

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

I was really pleased with last week’s webinar on serious games. The application of game technology and “game mechanics” to human capital management purposes at first seems to be a new and radical departure from conventional practices. However, I think in some sense it represents technology catching up with tried and true training and performance [...]

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Design Options for SCORM Run-Time Environment Web Services

Monday, March 23, 2009

Last week, I attended the IEEE Learning Standards Technology Committee (LSTC) meeting in Alexandria, VA. There are at least a couple topics discussed at the meeting I’d like to cover. I’m starting in reverse order in this post since I’m covering a topic discussed on the last day of the three-day meeting.
On that [...]

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Bringing Agility to Standards Development

Saturday, March 21, 2009

One of the LinkedIn Groups I subscribe to is the “Informal Network of Standards Professionals”. There have been a few interesting threads over there, including one about how standardization processes have changed — or need to change.
In the case of information and software-related standards, the issue is simply that standards development methodologies haven’t kept [...]

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Jan 22 Webinar: Universal Data Model Patterns, Len Silverston

Saturday, December 27, 2008

A well-conceived data model is a necessary foundation for any service oriented architecture (SOA). Architects looking for proven data model templates and best practices will find few resources more valuable than the The Data Model Resource Book series. In the recently published third volume (Universal Patterns for Data Modeling), data modeling experts Len Silverston and [...]

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