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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences
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George Kalmpourtzis (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Play to Learn: Everything You Need to Know About Designing Effective Learning Games
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Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions: Debunking Learning Myths and Superstitions
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3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train
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4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Design Thinking for Training and Development: Creating Learning Journeys That Get Results
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Designing for Modern Learning: Beyond ADDIE and SAM
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Design for How People Learn
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Julie Dirksen (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
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Design for How People Learn
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Julie Dirksen (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
score: 99,
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The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 56,287 ratings
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Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design
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4.45 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 30,425 ratings
score: 96,
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 30,425 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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4.11 avg rating — 86,839 ratings
score: 94,
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
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4.16 avg rating — 21,901 ratings
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Write and Organize for Deeper Learning: 28 evidence-based and easy-to-apply tactics that will make your instruction better for learning (Make It Learnable Book 1)
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Patti Shank (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 92,
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Practice and Feedback for Deeper Learning: 26 evidence-based and easy-to-apply tactics that promote deeper learning and application (Deep Learning Series Book 2)
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Patti Shank (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 91,
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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4.25 avg rating — 36,655 ratings
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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4.04 avg rating — 74,189 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 93,387 ratings
score: 86,
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Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
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Telling Training's Story: Evaluation Made Simple, Credible, and Effective
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4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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4.09 avg rating — 44,035 ratings
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
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4.17 avg rating — 4,676 ratings
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Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
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Content Strategy for the Web
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Learning Everywhere: How Mobile Content Strategies are Transforming Training
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3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Learning On Demand: How the Evolution of the Web Is Shaping the Future of Learning
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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
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4.39 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
score: 76,
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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3.89 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
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John Medina (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 34,258 ratings
score: 74,
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 93,331 ratings
score: 73,
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Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
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Nancy Duarte (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 5,568 ratings
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Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals
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Performance-Focused Smile Sheets: A Radical Rethinking of a Dangerous Art Form
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4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Designing Successful e-Learning
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Show Your Work
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 124,175 ratings
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
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Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 9,657 ratings
score: 60,
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Performance Consulting
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
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3.91 avg rating — 7,361 ratings
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First Principles of Instruction
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4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
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4.28 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
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StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect
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Hadiya Nuriddin (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 54,
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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People's Attention
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Ben Parr (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 384 ratings
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The New Social Learning: Connect, Collaborate, Work
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Marcia Conner (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Learning Theory and Online Technologies
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3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Visual Aid: Stuff You've Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew, and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning
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Draught Associates (Editor)
4.02 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide
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3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Interface Design for Learning: Design Strategies for Learning Experiences
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Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals
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E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
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Psychology of Learning for Instruction
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3.81 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Online Learning: Concepts, Strategies, and Application
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Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology
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Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (A Bradford Book)
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