Upside Learning

MAY 21, 2015

Client: This year, for our Sales training program, we would like to have a game designed. Sales Manager: What exactly do you want in the game? Scene: Sales meeting between executives of a leading learning service provider and an organisation planning to outsource its learning content development.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2011

There sure are lot of learning design community folks who love to play digital games. It’s always interesting to hear gamers talk about why they play certain genres of games and what aspects of those games they love. What is even more impressive is the passion and motivation that gets individuals to play these games.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 3, 2011

A very popular myth surrounding game-based learning is that it involves learning through video games. This article showcases The Healing Blade , a card game which is slowly gaining popularity among medical students in the United States. In the game you play as either an Apothecary or a Lord of Pestilence.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The paper describes a Professor of Reading’s teachers experience and learning from playing digital games and describes some of the learning principles good games incorporate. Two that he describes I found particularly interesting, the first about Interaction, where he mentions “ Games do talk back.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 23, 2010

As games continue to establish themselves into our daily lives, the future as we know it will not be the same. Below are a few interesting talks from TED’s past, focusing on games, which are sure to get you thinking. Jesse Schell: When games invade real life. Jesse Schell: When games invade real life.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

While turning everything into a game sure seems like fun, it’s not as easy as it sounds. The GameiT Handbook illustrates how games or elements of games can be included in educational practice, and to what end. Why Game Designers Are Better Motivators Than Your Boss. The Fun And Games Of The FBI.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We’ve had our fair share of digital learning game development projects; and a recent one threw a spoke in our design wheels like never before. Be absolutely certain about the game objective; what must the player do to win? – Make sure to tie down to a singular objective, and one that is achievable given the game mechanics.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are – a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. What Makes a Learning Game?

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are - a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. Marc Prensky - Digital Game-Based Learning.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Over so often I get asked what fundamentals of game design apply to the design of learning games – a very difficult question to answer that. In my opinion, every sort of principle ever used in the design of commercial video games applies to the creation of digital learning games as well. more about that here.

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Upside Learning

MAY 24, 2011

I came across a challenge posted on the Innocentive website titled – Games for Health: Inspiring Adolescents to take Control of their Health. The purpose of the challenge is to seek ideas for the design of a video game that would inspire and empower kids with chronic diseases to become more engaged in managing their own illnesses.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 6, 2012

With our increasing focus on Game Based Learning, each week sees us sharing interesting articles and resources about Game Based Learning on varied social networking platforms. Teaching Science Through Video Game Design. A well designed game is akin to a good teacher.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 19, 2010

I’ll be making an online presentation about the fundamental differences between games and simulation at 11:00 AM IST on 24th April, 2010. The presentation is meant for beginners, and will help them draw lines between simulations and games from a learning and learner experience perspective. See you on Saturday.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 8, 2011

She also espouses three fundamental small steps to take in higher education – make goals clear, make progress transparent, think about your game-play. . “Education has been a system of status and points since the dawn of the Industrial Age.&#.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It’s been an interesting start of the week, with the tiny Regifting game going viral of sorts within our office. Typically users follow repeat the game a few times to see if the game can actually guess your numbers. Perhaps all games can be regarded as composed of patterns of play. Related posts: What are Serious Games?

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Upside Learning

APRIL 1, 2010

I attended the two day conference on Game Based Learning held earlier this week in London. The delegate strength suggests increasing interest in game based learning, which is nice. It will also feature an industry first game based learning awards! I attended a key session about Games for Healthcare.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Top 100 Learning Game Resources. Upside Board Game Exercise - Download the Winning Game. Patterns at Play – Fundamental to Games. Top Posts Category Wise: Game Based Learning. Top 100 Learning Game Resources. Upside Board Game Exercise - Download the Winning Game. These Are NOT Serious Games!

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Upside Learning

APRIL 19, 2010

So I had to rely on the session videos put up on Game Based Learning website and my own notes from the sessions. After day 1 at the Game Based Learning conference I was looking forward to another great day. I headed straight to the session titled “Getting Serious about Games”. Check out this video of this game on TruSim website.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 25, 2010

You need to take the time to listen to what Seth Priebatsch says about the emergence of the game layer. He also talks about four game dynamics, very interesting. “…we You need to take the time to listen to what Seth Priebatsch says about the emergence of the game layer. He talks about four dynamics, and gives examples.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 1, 2009

We’ve been trying to inculcate a culture that’ll inculcate innovation in our creations, and in line with the buzz around learning games, we zeroed in on a game design exercise. Started out at 10:00 AM, when I gave the teams a (very) brief talk about five fundamental elements to be found in most board games. Talked about: 1.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 1, 2009

We’ve been trying to inculcate a culture that’ll inculcate innovation in our creations, and in line with the buzz around learning games, we zeroed in on a game design exercise. Started out at 10:00 AM, when I gave the teams a (very) brief talk about five fundamental elements to be found in most board games. Talked about: 1.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

It’s everywhere – these varied conversations about learning games and the spending of millions of dollars to further the state of art in learning games. It’s evident that they do need to, an audience familiar with game-based metaphors and interfaces are starting to enter the workplace in force. Where do they start?

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 17, 2009

Soon after I posted These are Not Serious Games on the blog and as a discussion on Linked-In , there was a flurry of comments over a couple of days that quickly covered some thoughts about Serious Games. Another major distinction between ‘casual’ and serious games is that serious games work on the logic of cause and effect.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2010

Craig opines that the SCORM Cloud is a potential game-changer in the eLearning industry. I don’t think it’s going to change the game. Read this news about SCORM Cloud going live on Monday 7 th June. Craig Weiss also posted a comprehensive product review on his blog – Product Review: SCORM Cloud.

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Upside Learning

JULY 30, 2013

Over the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed a sharp decline in the proportion of Flash-based eLearning that we create for our clients and partners. And with a team of over 100 dedicated to custom eLearning development, we sure do quite a bit of eLearning development. In the last 6 months, Flash-based courses have been [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 17, 2009

We receive requests for information about game-based learning development services. Customers have determined that using digital games is a good choice, but aren’t quite certain about whether it’s a casual or serious game they need. There are pronounced differences between casual and serious games.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 3, 2009

We’ve been following GDC’s Serious Games Summit, and the Serious Game portal has just posted about emerging trends in the serious games market as evident from the summit presentations and discussions. Hybrids Studios and Hybrid Games. Either way, the serious games market stands to gain much from this trend.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

The Evolution of the Learning Game. The strategies for creating and using serious games have advanced. No longer confined to rote learning at the end of a tutorial or even to the desktop, serious games come in all shapes and sizes. Read here to know how today’s experiences in games can be much more immersive.

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Upside Learning

MAY 11, 2021

In this third episode of Gamification of Learning, Amit Garg, Founder & CEO of Upside Learning Solutions talks to Animesh Kumar, President -HR & Transformation, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. Watch the full podcast below.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

“There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo. At Upside Learning, we believe that this is the right time to leverage mobile learning at the workplace. We worked hard, came up with ideas, criticized them, went back to the drawing board, and came back with better ideas.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Going beyond, to full simulation-driven experiences, serious games, is another matter. There may be tools, such as 3D game environments, that make rendering the world easier, but you still need to capture the underlying relationships. 3D environments, e.g. virtual reality, or alternate reality games will similarly be dearer.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For instance, you can use game engines to build branching scenarios, as these can handle rendering visuals quite powerfully. Simulation games, whether rendered on-screen or in an immersive environment, are powerful learning tools. There are tools for all types of branching scenarios and ones dedicated to video.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Media We’ve seen scenarios executed as text adventures, graphic novel formats, audio stories, branching video, and full games. You could do a scenario all in text (think the early text adventure games, such as Colossal Cave), but you can also augment with visuals, as above. Don’t forget to have consequences first!

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 13, 2020

So, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) a fantasy role-playing tabletop game, that was invented in 1974 according to me and many others, is responsible for giving birth to many genres of gaming, and its features and ideas have inspired almost 40% of the games that we see.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Leaderboards as a game mechanic is synonymous with Gamification as a practice. It’s one of the mechanics of gamification/game design that has the highest reach amongst people, Points & Badges being the other two mechanics from this star-studded lot.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 5, 2021

What made Albert Einstein say, “Games are the most elevated form of investigation”? In her course Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future Jane McGonigal attempts to solve this mystery. As a physicist, shouldn’t he have put science on a pedestal? McGonigal discovered that Einstein was a “very obsessed chess player”.

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Upside Learning

MAY 26, 2023

The company had prepared various fun events for its members and their families, including the renowned “Guess the Movie” game. The game, which involves identifying classic movie phrases, was a big hit with everyone.

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