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Tour Stops for Week Two of Gamification of Learning and Instruction Tour

Posted by Karl Kapp on April 23, 2012

TODAY’S STOP:April 27: Connie Malamed The eLearning Coach: Are you a Gamification Wizard This week promises to be an exciting second week of the Gamification Blog Book Tour. Here are the stops for this week. April 23: Clark Quinn Learnlets April 24: Karl Grieb ASTD Philadelphia Chapter April 25: Webinar Presentation for Houston ASTD Chapter “What Research […]

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Gamification of Learning and Instruction Blog Book Tour Week One Recap

Posted by Karl Kapp on April 21, 2012

Week One Recap The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy. The week opened with a posting of the tour stops on the Learning Circuit’s Blog and the Kapp Notes blog […]

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The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Blog Book Tour Underway!

Posted by Karl Kapp on April 17, 2012

TODAY”S TOUR STOP: April 20: Judy Unrein OneHundred Forty Words and Rich Mesch Performance Punctuated. The tour is going well and has garnered some controversy as Kathy Sierra has weighed on as a self-proclaimed gamification curmudgeon and is appropriately warning folks about the downside of gamification–which certianly exists. It’s lead to some great discussions about […]

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Excerpt from Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning

Posted by Karl Kapp on April 2, 2012

Looking through some old files, I found this interesting excerpt from “Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning.” Managing Team Members Across the World SAP—an inter-enterprise software development and implementation company—needed to provide their project managers with a learning experience to address a specific challenge—managing teams whose members were scattered across the globe. With team members […]

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Announcement of Serious Games Directory

Posted by Karl Kapp on March 28, 2012

New Online, International Directory for Serious Games Industry Offers Offers Free Listings for Titles, Tech, Services, Textbooks, Schools The Serious Games Association announced a new, international resource for developers, providers, analysts, educators and consultants, the Serious Games Directory. All listings and access will be available free in 2012. The Serious Games Directory will cover commercially available o Games and sims o Developers […]

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Impact of Games on the Economy, the World and Schools

Posted by Karl Kapp on March 26, 2012

Here are some interesting facts about the video game industry in terms of the impact on society from The Entertainment Software Association web site. A study, “Video Games in the 21st Century: The 2010 Report,” detailed the impact that computer and video game companies have on America’s economy. The report stated:From 2005 to 2010, the […]

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Presentation Resources and Notes from IMU Learning Webinar Series

Posted by Karl Kapp on March 21, 2012

Tonight I am speaking at the IMU Learning Webinar Series. The series is about “connecting inspiring and exceptional educators around the world to share their knowledge, best practices, experiences and wisdom to IMU and educators attending from around the world.” My talk this evening is on the topic of “Games, Gamification and the Need for […]

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Gamification Company Bunchball Makes Interesting Announcement

Posted by Karl Kapp on March 14, 2012

Eariler this morning, the gamification company, Bunchball made an interesting announcement about the personalization of gamification, which ties nicely into my posting the other day–What Happened to the Promise of One-to-One Online Learning? (of course the announcement is unrelated to my blog posting but the company is going ahead in that conceptual direction and making […]

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TechKnowledge 2012 Presentation Resources

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 25, 2012

Here are my slides from the TechKnowledge 2012 presentation “What Research Tells us about 3D Avatars, Storytelling and Serious games for Learning and Changing Behavior” plus videos and other links that go into more detail based on the topics I discussed. Kapp's ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 Presentation View more presentations from Karl Kapp. Here is a […]

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Consider Player/Game Interactions

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 9, 2012

Instructional or serious games should be driven, in part, by the types of interactions you wish to illicit from learner. A common mistake among novice instructional game developers it that they focus too much on the topic or instructional goals and not enough time on the interactions that will drive the learner toward those goals. […]

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