Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Assume a Role. A role-play that involves speaking to a nurse. To foster higher level skills, the player should assume a role during the game and not just play. Assuming a role means the learner must actively think about their actions, decisions and choices from a perspective other than themself.
Kapp Notes
MAY 27, 2010
A 3D Virtual World role play provides a realistic environment in which two or more people act out a scenario. Role playing is valuable for immersing a trainee in a job she would actually be doing. In a virtual immersive environment, some of the traditional obstacles and barriers of conducting face-to-face role plays are eliminated.
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Kapp Notes
JANUARY 27, 2014
A learner needs to be engaged with the learning process through activities, decision making and responding to stimuli. While this seems straightforward, most students are used to playing passive roles in the classroom and not being engaged during the teaching process. These are the “in-process” activities undertaken by the students.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Encouraging Learner Movement and Activity Develop activities to encourage learners to move their avatars around the instructional space during the group activity. The 3D virtual world is about movement and activity. When students are in small group activities, stop by and visit. Form small groups and visit them.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 16, 2012
A definition that includes using elements like challenge, story, role-play, feedback–what I call “deeper” game elements. The traditional design of instruction is based around the content, game development is based around the activity…big difference.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Competition has to be long enough to avoid learner demotivation because of bad initial results, and to assure that all participants have a good chance of winning until the end of the activity (Cantador & Conde, 2010). Working together and achieving a goal is the winning state of cooperative gamification.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 31, 2012
Simulating instructional roles through pedagogical agents. Simulating Instructional Roles through Pedagogical Agents. Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions: The Role of Agent Competency and Type. Watching an avatar that looks like you performing an activity influences you to perform a similar or same activity in the future.
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