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To ensure that the learning goals of a game, gamification or simulation are met, the first priority is to design the interactive learning event to focus on learning objectives from the beginning and not as an afterthought. One can’t bolt game elements onto traditional learning after it has been developed and expect that to be […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Had a great time last night presenting to the New York ASTD chapter, great folks and great dinner afterwards…made it home by mid-night so that was a nice unexpected treat. Here are the slides from the presentation. Also, here are some links that provide some additional information about what we discussed in the workshop. Articles […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →It seems that if I am not confronted with a person who is convinced that learning games and gamification are evil re-incarnated and will corrupt the minds of all learners and destroy Western Civilization as we know it, I am thus besieged by a person who believes that learning games and gamification are a magic […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Simulations and Serious Games have both differences and similarities. While there are many definitions of games and simulations, here is a synthesis of decades of work from Aldrich, Alessi & Trollip, Clark & Mayer, Kapp and Shank to identify defining characteristics of games and simulations. The chart below synthesizes some ideas about distinctive traits of […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →People often ask me how they can get started making learning games, the best way to get started making learning games it to begin to play games with a critical eye. One way to provide people within an organization to lots of different games is a GameFest. It is a quick method of generating a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here are the slides from my virtual presentation to the CIBP Forum Game based learning from Karl Kapp Also, here are some links that provide some additional information about what we discussed in the workshop. Articles Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer The Gamification of Retail Safety and Loss Prevention Training Blog Entries Creating […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Games are emotional, in a game there are typically winners and losers. The winners feel great! The losers, don’t feel great:( As someone creating or commissioning an instructional game, are you prepared to deal with the losers of that instructional game? That’s right, if you create an instructional game or gamification that is based on […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Recently Sharon Boller of Bottom Line Performance and I did a presentation at ASTD2013 on Instructional Game Design. We talked about game design, the need to play games and how games can be used for learning in the first part of the one day workshop and in the second half of the workshop, we had […]
Continue Reading →Sneak peak from theupcoming The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook. The best place to start to design a game, gamificaiton experience or simulation is to play games, lots of games. In today’s modern online and video games, the elements of gamification and simulation abound. The simulated environments of Call of Duty games are highly […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Lately, I have been talking about gamification for learning and instruction with a number of different people in several different venues. Here are some of the interviews that I’ve had. Over at Engaging Leader with Jesse Lahey, we had a great conversation about Gamifying to Engage. He has an entire series on Gamification, go over […]
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