Campus Party Europe 2013 in London … one of the best kept secrets! Campus Party Europe 2013 in London: a great technology secret Thanks to the Smarta newsletter I subscribe to I entered a competition for what to me seemed like an unusual combination…
Category: game based learning
Games for transformation
Games for transformation In training both as a participant and instructor games have proven to be a fantastic means for transformation. It has always fascinated me that the training environment often brings out masked or model behaviour, but when you add in a game…
What if my e-learning is a bit flat?
Is gamification the solution, when my e-learning is a bit flat? In my view as an instructional designer as well as gamification designer, you can improve content delivery by working in gamification elements. There are a number of questions you would want to answer first,…
Facts about game based learning
by JakeHuhn1. From Visually.
Do you want to create engagement for your existing content?
In learning gamification we often receive the request to create engagement for the existing content. Either hosted on a learning management system, a website, SharePoint, or other content management systems. The missing information typically is, why are your people not using it? Here are the…
Gamification stuff we love: Answerables
Gamification stuff we love: Answerables We came across Answerables from Nexed in our research for EdTech tools. The software allows children to explore a 3-D world as themselves or even a cyborg. Teachers set the online content provided or they can even hold some of…
Gamification stuff we love: Growth Engineering
Gamification stuff we love: Growth Engineering Yesterday I attended the Gamifiers Meetup group hosted in the lovely IBM client centre. We learned from case studies from fellow industry experts, I saw an update on player types from Andrzej Marczweski, which made me look forward to his…
Gamification stuff we love: Rework – future of education
Gamification stuff we love: Rework – future of education Earlier this week I attended the RE:work Future of education event under the banner of #edtech. It was absolutely refreshing to see how innovative minds are designing ways to engage with students across the education curriculum….
Gamification Stuff we love: The Gronstedt Group
Gamification Stuff we love: The Gronstedt Group Yesterday I had the chance to speak with Anders Gronstedt, the founder of The Gronstedt Group Inc based in Colorado in the USA. We shared out interest in 2nd live and 3D-simulations for learning purposes as well as…
Gamification stuff we love: Game-Learn
Gamification stuff we love: Game-learn After Learning Technologies I promised to delve deeper into a number of tools and let you know more about it. One that has impressed me when I looked into it further are the learning games from Game Learn from Spain….
Gamification stuff we love: MLevel
Gamification Stuff we love: mLevel – game based learning platform Over the past week I had the chance to test out the game based learning platform MLevel and I also got a tour behind the scenes how the back-end would work, if I was an…
Gamification stuff we love: Attensi Simulations
Gamification Campaigns we Love: Attensi Simulations Thanks to the Norwegian Innovation Board I recently met with the Norwegian company Attensi, who make simulations for learning purposes. One of their showcase projects is in retail. They developed a virtual image of the real store of a…