Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 14, 2013

Cognitive flow is something you should definitely stove to achieve with your learning game. This is a great article for anyone looking to design learning games because one of the key advantages of games, the reason they are being so widely adopted in training, is engagement.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 3, 2013

” The article is definitely worth a read, and you may even decide to go check out Blitz yourself. . “The gamification principles strengthening Blitz stem from the basis that time-constrained thinking sessions provide a game with minimal rule-based stipulations but plenty of play.”

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

It definitely mirrors the trend of lots of learning games I see that spend lots of time telling people how to play before they actually get to play. Its target audience is young veterans or military personnel. The goal is to make these people better at managing their money and planning their financial futures.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Here’s the definition for games Sharon Boller includes in her presentations: A game is an activity with a defined goal or challenge, rules that guide achievement of the goal, interactivity with either other players or the game environment (or both), and feedback mechanisms that give clear cues as to how well or poorly you are performing.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 21, 2014

It’s more than just a fun pastime for me (although I definitely love to play!), Last month, I shared a game evaluation worksheet I use when playing games. but also part of my idea generation process for the games I design. I’ve said it many times: “you can’t design a great game unless you play lots of games.”

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 12, 2013

The part of ADDIE that you definitely don’t want to dump is the “A”— analyzing what your learners need to know or be able to do, and what they already know and can do. ” Step 3: Think about the learning first—and then the game. This is a blog series about creating learning games. Your game will fit into those gaps.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 7, 2013

We noted some players definitely responded positively to their existence in the game (“Oh, I hit another milestone”) and so we decided to keep them in the game. After testing the game many times, we concluded that these achievements matter to a significant subset of players, but not at all to others.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 14, 2017

For example, Dempster (1987) found that students remembered more vocabulary definitions when a term and definition were repeated every five minutes, rather than when the same term and definition were repeated back-to-back. Successive Relearning.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 26, 2013

These dynamics definitely aligned with their real world environment where they worked under time constraints and they were developing a product. Make sure you distinguish between game goals and learning goals.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 29, 2017

Here’s a quick definition of each quadrant followed by a checklist of factors to consider within each quadrant: User Experience (UX) Design – the framework and navigation design of your game; this framework makes it easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to add/build onto it if you need to roll out future enhancements.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 21, 2014

It offers detailed explanations of the terminology of games as well as solid definitions of what a learning game is and how a learning game differs from gamification of a learning solution. I read the entire book (not just my chapter), and I was impressed by the wealth of knowledge it contains.

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