Avoid the wrong reasons for interactive learning
Editor’s note: Gaming and simulations are easier and cheaper to design and implement than ever before but unless you are clear about what you are trying to achieve they can just as easily fail.
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Badgeville gamifies salesforce platform toolkit to drive behaviour, increase use of cloud apps
Editor’s note: Using the Badgeville toolkit, developers can reward cloud user behaviors in realtime by leveraging mechanics, such as points, achievements and missions. They can also provide recognition and rank to make users feel special or smart by leveraging mechanics, such as levels, tracks and leaderboards.
Playing action videogames improves visual search
Editor’s note: Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a relatively short time, improves visual search ability.
#ASTDTK2013 resources from ASTD presentations
Editor’s note: Slidedeck from Karl Kapp on immersive learning through games, gamification and virtual worlds.
An evaluation of the value of virtual games in fitness
Editor’s note: Dr Kelly Brooks of the American Public University looks at research into whether video games can help to increase fitness. can games produce real work behaviour change?
Summary of games research qualitative literature review conducted by Fengfeng Ke
Editor’s note: Meta-analysis of studies that look at gaming in learning. Useful information to support moves into using games mechanics in learning.
How Deloitte made learning a game
Editor’s note: Introducing game mechanics into its online leadership academy has seen an increase of 37% in users returning to the site each week. This article looks at the ingredients for the success.
30 iPad games for your brain
Editor’s note: You may want to play some of these or you might find them useful in term,s of how the games work.
Secrets of success for game-based learning: Ben Betts on PonyPrep
The Pony Club’s site PonyPrep won gold at last week’s E-learning Age Awards for the…
18 ways universities are using video games to learn
Editor’s note: This article does what it says on the tin. If you are looking for examples of who is using games in learning – and how – then this is worth a read.
How games are being used for learning
Editor’s note: This 10-minute video looks at how games are being used in learning. The focus is on schools and how students interact with a range of different types of games.