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Moments Of Delight – Using Animation To Personalise Corporate Messages
The engagement problem with corporate communications? Sliced Bread Animation creates, amongst a number of other competencies, animated explainer videos for corporate communications. For these, we’ve followed a lot of scripts that were supplied by either the clients themselves, or in cooperation with a PR or strategy agencies (who provide usually provide consultancy on the psychology [...]
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The 5 Key Benefits of Adaptive Learning and Scenario Training
Back in the 1980s, role-playing gamebooks were all the rage. The ever-popular “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series spawned a whopping 184 entries, while the “Fighting Fantasy” series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone lasted for 59 books. Fast forward four decades, and the same theory used in those gamebooks — adaptive learning — has [...]
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The Power Of The Animated Explainer Video: Why 80% Of People Learn Best Through Visuals
If you want people to comprehend and accurately recall information, the best option is usually to use visuals to illustrate your point. And, yes, we’re well aware of the irony in communicating this concept using a text-based blog post! Visual storytelling — used in our bespoke animated explainer videos and other forms of visual media [...]
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Level-Up Employee Learning With Gamification
Today’s workforce often lacks the time for complex, time-consuming training sessions. After all, by the time employees catch up on email, read the company newsletter, converse with colleagues on Slack, and participate in a few Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls, it’s more or less time to call it a day. How do businesses find time [...]
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How VR Training Can Save Your Organisation Time and Money
A common misconception regarding virtual reality (VR) training for businesses is that it’s too expensive to generate a positive return on investment (ROI). The truth is that — while VR training does have somewhat higher upfront costs than traditional methods — the relatively low ongoing costs often make it an excellent investment. Therefore, the real [...]
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Has The Power Of The Whiteboard Animation Gone? Or Does It Remain The Ultimate Tool For Corporate Communication?
If you're considering whiteboard animation for your corporate communication campaigns, it's natural to wonder about its effectiveness in today's media landscape. While it's true that whiteboard animations might not have the same flashy appeal as some other types like 3D animation or animated AR or VR experiences, it is still an highly effective communication tool [...]
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How Immersive VR Enhances Learning And Memory Retention
Virtual Reality (VR) is a powerful tool in education, revolutionising the way we learn and retain information. By immersing users in realistic and interactive environments, VR offers unparalleled opportunities and a unique learning experience that engages multiple senses and enhances learning and memory retention. From STEM education to medical training and cultural exploration, VR has [...]
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Accessible E-learning: Ensuring Inclusivity in Your Training Programs
Accessibility is important - everyone deserves to feel included in a workplace, regardless of any physical or mental differences with their colleagues. However historically only the most able are considered. So how can we change for the better? And how can e-learning perform a key role? Ensuring your workplace is inclusive and making your employees [...]
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Empower Your People With An Engaging AR Corporate Training Game Powered By AI
Have you been stuck in team building that feels not only forced, but uninspiring? How about a multiplayer AR corporate training game powered by AI? Or are you a manager who’s tired of seeing their team turn glassy-eyed and fatigued during leadership training. Well, it's time to introduce Riley, the main character in our groundbreaking [...]
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Types of Gamification to Drive Results in Your Workplace
Gamification is synonymous with e-learning and offers plenty of benefits to the table. But how can businesses practically apply the features that game mechanics offer to ensure you reap the rewards? In this article, we’re going to walk you through how gamification enhances e-learning platforms and how to choose game mechanics that will improve your [...]
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Confused About Gamification? You Might Already be Using it.
Gamification is fast becoming the golden egg for enhancing productivity and collaboration in the workplace. You may already be using it in your office. But what does the term ‘gamification’ actually mean and how can you apply game mechanics in your company? What does ‘gamification’ mean? The term "gamification" was coined in 2002 by Nick [...]
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Immersive Technology – The Value of Using AR + VR at Live Events
Live events can be tiring. Long days soon become a blur and you come into contact with so many people you don’t remember who you spoke to and who you said what to. In addition, you have all the pre-event preparation and the post-event administration to take care of. And you're never sure whether you [...]
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How to Optimise Virtual Reality Training
We’ve written about VR training and its benefits on a number of occasions. Whilst we undoubtedly love what virtual reality brings to the training room table, it can be easy to lose sight of the purpose a VR training program should aim for. So in this article, we’re going to switch focus towards optimising VR [...]
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The Long Term Benefits of Animated Explainer Videos
Here at Sliced Bread we’ve gone over the benefits of explainer animations many times, posting deep dives about the cost benefits, the engagement and emotional benefits extensively. However we’ve only ever touched upon the long term benefits of creating animated explainer videos in other blog posts. This blog post will look deeper into the longevity [...]
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How We Use Unity to Create Gamified Training and Interactive E-learning
Are you curious about virtual reality training and its applications to the workplace? Is it also slightly daunting trying to look into interactive learning when it can seem like such a huge leap from even the digital e-learning you’re used to? Here at Sliced Bread Animation we’re experts in making immersive communications, from VR Culinary [...]
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E-Learning in Education: The Origins of Gamification in Learning
E-learning and gamification are growing in popularity. With a generation of workers raised using gamification and interactivity in school classrooms, it makes sense for the trend to sweep into the corporate world. E-learning, or online learning, uses digital tools as a teaching platform. Today students largely consume educational content on computers, tablets and smartphones. And [...]
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Learning by Doing: Why Is Retention The Goal In E-learning and Training Courses?
Retention is a key factor to consider when creating e-learning and training courses. But what does retention mean, and why is retention so important? What is retention? The Cambridge English dictionary defines retention as: “The continued use, existence, or possession of something or someone”. When you apply this definition to e-learning and training, retention essentially [...]
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How Gantt Charts Optimise The Production Process
When it comes to project managing, Gantt charts form the backbone of our production process. On the surface it's easy to assume a Gantt chart is just a way to visualise a schedule. However, some of you may not even know what a Gantt chart is. So let's look at what Gantt charts are, why [...]
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Redefining Learning: The Rise of Virtual Reality Training in the Workplace
Virtual reality training is already used in a huge variety of industries, and it has already proven to be the next step in e-learning and workplace education. However, despite its widespread use, using virtual reality (VR) for education and vr training is still something that hasn’t breached into public consciousness despite its huge potential. For [...]
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Construction & Engineering Communication Projects
We make it our mission to transform our clients’ requirements into compelling stories that captivate and engage target audiences. We partner with clients such as Network Rail, Hitachi Rail, Costain, Airbus, and MTR to help them visualise their messages. We have an extensive history and understanding of immersive animation processes. We know how important it [...]
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E-Learning Solutions: A Deep Dive into Gamification For Learning
You may have heard phrases like interactive e-learning, gamification for learning and gamified training thrown around when discussing the ever developing education industry. However, do you know what these terms mean? With all of the apps, websites, virtual workstations and online spaces constantly being updated and integrated into our daily life, it's hard to know [...]
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Animated Explainer Videos: Using Animation To Communicate ‘How’
Animated explainer videos are an excellent way of getting your point across. Especially complex topics that are not easy to explain in writing. Communication is key. We’ve already looked at how to communicate the why using animation in a previous article. This time round we’re going to look at how to use animation to communicate [...]
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Why AR Could Be Your Next E-learning Solution
Do you work at a company that handles complex information, or deals with specific and difficult to understand subject matter? Most industries have intricacies that can be extremely hard to convey, and in many cases, finding the correct way is still elusive. Augmented reality could be the solution. Unlike virtual reality, where the user is [...]
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Innovative Training for Health and Safety: Exploring E-Learning Solutions
Among team leads and organisational managers, no two words manage to provoke such scoffs, jeers, or snorts of derision quite like ‘health’ and ‘safety.’ Packaged as some great prohibitive exercise in ‘can’t do this, mustn’t do that’, health and safety is much maligned throughout industries, leading many employees to nod knowingly: “everybody hates the safety [...]
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Advanced Medical Training – Information, Animation, & Educating Healthcare Professionals
The pursuit of knowledge is a long and winding road – and is there any road longer, or more winding, than the journey to becoming a professional healthcare practitioner? These are the workers – the doctors, nurses, technicians, analysts, first-responders, psychologists, social carers, and patient liaisons – doing such incredible and valuable work throughout our [...]
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Gamification In The Workplace: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity
What does the word ‘work’ mean to you? Data entry? Medical appointments? Emergency services? Teaching? NASA astronaut? (OK… unlikely. But you never know.) Whatever your place of work, ‘fun’ and ‘games’ are probably not concepts that immediately spring to mind. It’s a long-held, not-often-spoken, almost universally-accepted truth about the postmodern work/life paradigm (The Muse): free [...]
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Communicating Transformation And Change Using Animation
Communicate changes easily If there’s ever been a time for animation to communicate company messages, it's now. Animation can help companies communicate changes easier, increase engagement, soften negative responses to wholesale changes, and alleviate fears your employees have post-pandemic. Disruptive technologies have been turning the screw on the need for digital transformation in the corporate [...]
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Surgical Simulation & the Future of Medical Communication
Since its introduction, surgical simulation has become a central component of the way doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals learn and ply their craft. But let’s begin by establishing a definition, as surgical simulation can cover a wide range of technologies and tools: encompassing everything from physical models of the human body for students to train [...]
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Level Up Your Hiring With Gamification In Talent Acquisition
In August 2004, Google (anonymously) placed a billboard over Highway 101 in Silicon Valley. The billboard read, in stark, unbranded, black and white script: ‘{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com.’ The answer – of course – is 7427466391.com. People who followed the trail this far were met with another equation. Having beaten this [...]
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2D Animation Explainers For Healthcare
We have produced a number 2D animation explainers for the healthcare and medical sector which helps explain complicated treatment processes within the body. Whilst 3D animation is still the ‘star of the game’ in delivering beautiful and captivating imagery that is highly explanatory and helpful in gaining understanding about the inner workings of healthcare treatment, [...]
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Training Tomorrow’s Doctors: Augmented Reality in Healthcare Education
As technology continues to revolutionise the healthcare industry, AR (augmented reality) has emerged as a powerful tool for medical professionals and students alike. It has proven itself to be an effective tool for training surgeons, enhancing patient care, and improving medical education. Notably, AR technology has already been used in numerous medical procedures, including spine [...]
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Gaming Culture – Utilising Game Mechanics to Enhance Your Learning and Development
Gamification has been a phrase thrown around in corporate e-learning and training space for many years, with organisations using it to create more engaging and interactive training for their employees, however, most gamified learning continues to be nothing more than a multiple choice quiz, and some digital content. The gaming industry is immense; the board [...]
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