Here are three interesting videos about game design, they are not focused on instructional games but if you substitute “instructional game designer” every time they mention “game designer” you will learn a great deal about designing instructional games. This presentation talks about the different genres of games. This is a great top ten list that […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Doing a presentation for an online conference called GAME ON: Exploring innovative pedagogies: Using game design to enhance online learning being conducted by Charles Darwin University in Australia. In that presentation I am going to discuss game-based learning in a 30 minute talk called “Where is the learning in games?” So here are the games […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →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) →The other day I had a chance to have a conversation with Lucas Blair an alumni of Bloomsburg University’s Instructional Technology program and the founder of Little Bird Games and who is working on a wonderful project in which you can get involved. Here are some sound bites from our conversation… Kapp:Tell us a little […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Over at the Upsidelearning blog they published an interesting list of quotes related to mLearning. I think there are some really inspiring quotes in the group and I was pleased to be included in the list. Amit also did a great job of matching the images with the quotes. Take a look and choose your […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I have been a long time fan of comic books and thought they would be great for creating a learning curriculum especially one that was transmedia. Here is an interesting TEDx video that makes a powerful argument for comics for learning (although not the central message of the talk.) Additionally, recently a friend of mine […]
Continue Reading →Here is an interesting and fun video put together by my friends at Designing Digitally showing a very gamified life. A fun look at one of many possible futures of gamification. Here is a similar vision of a gamified future as well…a little darker.
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Leave a Comment (0) →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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