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Several Awards In International Serious Play Competition

Posted by Karl Kapp on June 18, 2019

Three games designed for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) have been cited for excellence in the 2019 International Serious Play Award Program. Gold Medal citations were awarded to: Trauma-Informed Practices for K12 Schools, an interactive professional development solution for educators to build skills, confidence, and empathy to better support students whose behavior might be caused by […]

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Research Article: Success factors for serious games to enhance learning: a systematic review

Posted by Karl Kapp on October 9, 2018

Recently, I was doing some work for a peer-reviewed article and came across this interesting piece. Good guildelines for creating serious learning games. Abstract: There is no doubt that an abundance of factors exists that makes learning with serious games successful. Research articles reporting on these factors, however, tend to focus on select serious game […]

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Resources from eLBX Conference

Posted by Karl Kapp on June 11, 2018

Great time at the eLBX Conference. Met up with some old friends and made some new ones. Here are the slides and some resources discussed. Here is a link to the conference. Games, Gamification and Game-Thinking: Making a Impact with Learners from Karl Kapp Click here for a link to the Zombie Instructional Design Card […]

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Resources from Training Magazine’s Training 2018 Conference and Expo

Posted by Karl Kapp on February 13, 2018

Here are the slides and some resources from my presentation Games, Gamification and Interactivity for Learning. Here are the slides: Games, Interactivity and Gamification for Learning from Karl Kapp Here’s how to make notes right in PowerPoint. Instructions on How to Take Notes Directly on a PowerPoint Slide from Karl Kapp […]

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Board Games and Card Games: Leading the Learning Game Field in 2018

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 28, 2018

If past is prologue, the learning game industry is set for a wild ride in 2018. One of the most interesting trends and developments across the gaming industry is the surge in the popularity of both board and card games. From my personal observation and interactions with clients, the board game, card game trend is […]

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Keynote Resources from #LUC2017

Posted by Karl Kapp on May 3, 2017

The Lectora 2017 Users Conference promises to be an exciting and engaging event. Here are the slides from my keynote (but no peaking until it’s over) Mission Possible: Creating Learner Engagement from Karl Kapp As indicated in the keynote, all of the topics were not covered but, they are all covered here. What we missed […]

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“Play to Learn” Book Tour has Begun (Live and Online)

Posted by Karl Kapp on March 3, 2017

So excited to be able to say that PLAY TO LEAN, the book Sharon Boller and I have been crafting, writing and assembling is finally available. The book is based on a workshop we’ve been conducting for years and combines our findings, best practices, aha moments and game design thinking insights. We’ve put these “lessons […]

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Struggling = Learning

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 24, 2017

The other day, an online colleague of mine, Peter G. Shea, introduced me to the term “disfluent” from the book Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg. The term means “harder to process at first but stickier once it was really understood.” The term resonated with me because I believe one of the reasons games are […]

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TK Session Resources:Thinking Like a Game Designer

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 11, 2017

Here are some resources related to gamification and, more importantly, thinking like a game designer when creating instruction. Here are the slides of my keynote. TH504 – Stop Thinking Like an Instructional Designer: Start Thinking Like a Game Designer from Karl Kapp Also, many people ask me how I am able to add notes directly […]

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Answering #Gamification Questions from a 7th Grade Student-Part 2

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 6, 2017

Here is part two of the questions about gamification from a 7th grade in a California school. You can see part one of the question and answer session at this link (and you want to check it out, she asked some great questions). 10. How long have you taught with a traditional learning version? AND […]

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