Kapp Notes

MARCH 19, 2015

'A number of meta-analysis studies have been conducted in the field of game-based learning attempting to create generalizable findings that can be used to select and create meaningful educational and instructional game experiences. Here are three guidelines culled from research on the subject. The vast frozen wilderness faces the player as she learns about heat flow formula.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 18, 2014

'My experience at the TEDxNavesink event was great, many moving and insightful presentations but the subject of this presentation and the correlation of the decline of play with the rise in mental health issues was timely, potent and on-point. Check it out.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 17, 2014

'The other day I had a chance to ask my friend Jane Bozarth a few questions as we caught up. I’ve known Jane for a long time and I am lucky enough to see her at almost every conference, usually we have a quiet meal together, catch up on what each other is doing and talk about the world of learning development and design (it’s a rip roaring good time:).

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Conversation Social Media Virtual World Camera 199

Kapp Notes

JUNE 16, 2014

'My TEDx Talk has now been posted. What a wonderful experience I had with all the great people at TEDxNavesink. It was so much fun to spend the day with such knowledgeable and insightful individuals. Preparing for the TEDx talk, I leveraged some stories and ideas I had been thinking about for some time. I was nervous for the talk, I had gone through a write up of the script, Skype rehearsal and several version of the talk.

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Video Skype Games Version 198

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Here are the slides and some links related to my presentation at the conference. Five Things Game Designers Can Teach eLearning Designers from Karl Kapp. Here are the five elements of thinking like a game designer. Begin with Activity:Add Action and Adventure. Put Your Learner at “Mock” Risk. Create Curiosity, Mystery, Intrigue. Give Learners Choices Also related is to Create Multiple Levels of Entry into Your Instruction.

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Slides Informal Resources Diversity Training 175

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

'Challenge is a strong motivator in learning (Malone, 1981; Schlechty, 1997; Jones et al., 1994). A challenge is a call to engage in a difficult, but achievable task. Uncertain outcomes are challenging because of the variability depending on the use’s actions, multiple goals, hidden information and randomness (Wilson et. al. 2009). Challenge is correlated with both intrinsic motivation and motivation related to fostering competence and student efficacy (R.W.

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Gamification Design Cognitive Simulations 207

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

'Some thoughts on competition and cooperation for learning within the context of gamification. For more information on content and structural gamification, click HERE. Competition. Competition is often associated with structural gamification. Competition is when students are “constrained from impeding each other and instead devote the entirety of their attentions to optimizing their own performance.

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Gamification Case Study Cognitive Games 229

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2013

'A sense of suspense, mystery and intrigue draws people into games, movies and novels…but rarely learning events. When playing a game, inevitably, players become curious—what happens if I go over to this place or explore this room. What if I run into the open? What if I open this door or go out through a window? Game players explore gamespaces to see what happens.

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Learner Learning Objects Player Movie 211

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 7, 2013

'You know the old saying, “No risk, no reward.” Lots of training has no risk and, for most learners, it has no reward. Nothing gets the heart pounding or the sweat beading on your brow like the prospect of messing up a major project at work or shutting down a production line because of a dumb mistake that you’ve made. Unfortunately, in most learning environments, the thought of increasing a learner’s pulse or causing him or her to sweat rarely occurs to the instructional

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Learner Player Games Attitudes 216

Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2013

'Here is a funny video about what happens when the schools system is totally taken over by testing as well as making an argument against compartmentalizing subjects. Scary funny. You’ll laugh and kinda cry.

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Education Video System 211

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The other day I posted Three Questions to Ask Before You Create a Learning #Game and it was rightfully pointed out that those questions could be asked about a gamification project or even a simulation project. When creating any type of Interactive Learning Experience (ILE) it is always important to spend time asking questions before you get started, the process is helpful in your design and will help make your effort a success.

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Games Simulations Create Player 185

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

There are many considerations that need to go into creating a learning game. Here are three questions you should ask before you begin. 1) What business problem is prompting the need for the game? – Lack of sales? – Lack of customer service? – Quality? – Time Problems? – Other? 2) What are the learners not doing now that they should be doing in terms of the problem described above?

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Games Create Attitudes Customer Service 212

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Here are some thoughts on what needs to be done to develop an instructional game that meets the objective of actually teaching something to the player. To ensure that the goals of a serious game are met, the first priority is to design the game to focus on those learning or social objectives from the beginning and not as an afterthought. One can’t bolt game elements onto traditional learning or social education and expect that to be an effective, interesting or even instructional game.

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Games Player Attitudes Behavior 275

Kapp Notes

APRIL 23, 2012

TODAY’S STOP: Clark Quinn Learnlets. Clark is not necessarily a fan of the term “Gamification” and provides some powerful reasons why in his post. And his suggestion of “Beyond Gamification” would have been a really good title. This week promises to be an exciting second week of the Gamification Blog Book Tour. Here are the stops for this week.

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Gamification ASTD Instructional Instruction 133

Kapp Notes

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 and then introduced everyone to the Facebook page for the book and then the discussion really ramped up with Jane Bozarth talking about the how the book takes a common sense look at the subject.

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Gamification Blogging Instructional Instruction 264

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 4, 2011

As someone who has been actively running for a year or so I know how difficult it is too get motivated to wake up on a cool rainy morning and go for a run. Still this year I managed to run 3 sprint-length triathalons, a couple of 5Ks and one half-marathon (it wasn’t pretty). All this exercises is great but motivation is still an issue for me that’s why I sign up for the races so that I am motivated to practice so I don’t fall over in the race but…I’d like more motiv

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Exercise Gamification Games Issue 165

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 3, 2011

At Bloomsburg University, twice a year we have our Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) meeting and representatives from corporations all over the country come and evaluate the students as the students present and they take some time to show off some cool things that they are doing. One of the companies that has consistently presented to students over the years has been The Phoenix Group which does outstanding design and instructional work and they have a really cool facility that students and facul

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Site Instructional Design Instructional Instruction 164

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I would not call myself a "crafting" type of person. I like to make stuff for myself sometimes but not all the time. Generally, I just don't have the time, the space or the patience. But every once in a while I get in the mood and spend the whole day churning out a bunch of project. And I have to admit this is a Pinterest-fueled post. I saw a bunch of cute ideas on there, ran to Michael's and bought a whole ton of stuff to make.

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Project Ideas Personal Personalization 134

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Here are three game related news items that I think are of interest. 1) Using a crowdsourcing game called FoldIt , players have unlocked a protein mystery that had baffled AIDS researchers. As the linked article states: “Following the failure of a wide range of attempts to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease by molecular replacement, we challenged players of the protein folding game Foldit to produce accurate models of the protein,” the study reads.

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News Games SAP Player 157

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Games provide players with instant reward in the form of points. Sometimes those points are directly related to the activity. In football video game Madden NFL 12 when a player scores a touchdown, the team earns six points. In the social networking game Mafia Wars points are earned by completing jobs or winning fights which are both activities directly related to the narrative of game which is running a criminal empire.

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Games Social Networks Player Social Network 154

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I was looking for some resources on Gamification and found a talk by Sabastian Deterding who presented a fasinating and thought provoking Google Talk called “Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right&#. He makes a few excellent points about Gamification: 1) Having a make-believe story wrapped around an experience and adding rules and challenges to make an experience more interesting. 2) Setting goals and having feedback. 3) Having a free, safe play space and shared toy objects that can b

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Instructional Design Sound Gamification Instructional 179

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Over at The Escapist , they have a series of short clips called Extra Credit related to video games and how they are becoming an art form. Simple but provocative videos. This one is particularly interesting as it describes how narrative can be embedded within the mechanics and game play of a game without involved scripts, complicated plot lines or high end graphics.

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Games Video 145

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

One of the hallmarks of the instructional systems design process is the use of formative evaluations to judge the effectiveness of the instruction as its being developed so that it can be improved as it is created. A major part of that process is a small group evaluation. A small group evaluation within the instructional design process checks the efficacy of previous revisions and helps to ensure that the instruction or learning event is effective in helping learners reach their learning goals.

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Evalution Instructional Design Instructional Instruction 128

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I was first introduced to the idea of an interest curve in the fascinating and informative book The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses. The book describes an interest curve from a gamer perspective but I think we should also consider it from a learner’s perspective. Much of this post is based on the words of Schell re-phrased from a perspective of learning rather than gaming or entertainment.

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Case Study Attention Instructional Instruction 162

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Recently, I wrote an article for ASTD’s Learning Circuits titled Barriers to Adopting Games in Corporate Environments. The concept behind the article is that there are some major reasons why games, which should be readily adopted as efficient, effective learning tools are not being adopted. So, here is the list of the reasons why they are not being adopted, go to the article to see the detail, and a few more reasons: Barriers to Adopting Games in Corporate Environments.

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Simulations Games ASTD Adoption 168

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn't seem like much unless you are one of the.1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the last 20 years. As a faculty member of Bloomsburg University--a stated owned University, I am a Pennsylvania state employee.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Labor Day is here, traditionally, many people in the US consider it the last day of summer. And to celebrate they usually cook out on the grill and have a picnic. Well, the celebration doesn't have to end even when the weather gets cold, there are plenty of fun and exciting cooking games that you can play to stay sharp. You can even challenge the Iron Chef if you feel up to the challenge.

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Games Tagging Guide Video 150

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Social Media for Trainers is a great book for understanding the ways to leverage social media to extend training beyond the traditional four walls.

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Social Media Media Google Wave Ideas 185

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Social Media for Trainers is a great book for understanding the ways to leverage social media to extend training beyond the traditional four walls.

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Social Media Media Google Wave Ideas 233

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. In 2007, when children's marketing research firm KidSay asked boys what virtual worlds or online games they had visited in the past two weeks, 35 percent of boys aged 8 to 11 replied "none." In 2010, when M2 Research asked a similar question, they found 91 percent of boys and 93 percent of girls aged 8-11 are playing games online on a regular basis.

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Social Networks Games Online Social Network 185

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

James Paul Gee, who writes prolifically about video games for learning, has a paper out titled Good Video Games and Good Learning. You should check it out yourself but here are a few points from the 14 he lists in the article related to the learning principles good games incorporate. Solving a puzzle in Uncharted 2 (great game, contains all elements listed below) Identity – no deep learning takes place unless an extended commitment of self is made for the long haul.

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Games Cognitive Player Newsletter 181

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There is research evidence to indicate that informal language in an e-learning module is more effective than formal language. In Ruth Clark's book " e-Learning and the Science of Instruction " she discussed a study by Moreno and Mayer, 2000 that compared a formally worded course with one that was more informally worded. In the study students who learned with text that was more informal and personal (for example, used the word "you" or "I") produced 20% to 46% more solutions to a transfer problem

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Informal Journal Module Conversation 199

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 31, 2010

The short definition of Metacognition is "Thinking about Thinking." Here are some more definitions from a variety of sources. What people know about how (their own) cognitive processes operate is termed metacognition (cognition about cognitive processes). Acquiring knowledge about how to think might well affect how one thinks which will affect how one performs on cognitive tasks (Brown & DeLoache, 1978) as written in the book Cognitive Processes by Bourne, Dominowski, Loftus and Healy, 1979)

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Cognitive Case Study ISPI Journal 160

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 30, 2010

As schools adapt to new technologies and hardware and software, curriculum changes need to reflect more than just the inclusion of technology; changes needs to impact methodology, approach and instructional activities. Yet, even today, instructional methodologies are heavily influenced by the instructional models and cultural influences of teachers and administrators, not the students.

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Teach Case Study Format Pedagogy 205

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 27, 2010

Here is some rapid prototyping advice courtesy of simulation developer, Thinking Worlds. Use a stock environment with the same general characteristics that the final environment will have. For example, select one of the stock offices in Thinking Worlds if your final game will be in an office. For characters, use several stock characters that have the same general look-and-feel that the final characters will probably have.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here is a number of interesting predictions for virtual worlds done in a nice and interesting SlideShare presentation Virtual Worlds 2010+ View more documents from KZero Worldswide. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide. Tags: virtual immersive environment.

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Virtual World Predictions Slideshare Tagging 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 31, 2009

According to the BBC: Virtual goods such as weapons or digital bottles of champagne traded in the US could be worth up to $5bn in the next five years, experts predict. In Asia, sales are already around the $5bn mark and rapidly growing. As one venture capitalist noted "We have seen companies go from nothing in the last 18-24 months to tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

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