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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

This is an outcome of the Adobe initiated Open Screen Project , which was started a couple of years back. The Open Screen Project was started to help create a singular experience on multiple devices (using Flash) be it Computers, Mobiles, TV or Game consoles. Here’s a whole bunch of CEOs praising the Open Screen Project.

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Make Online Classrooms Fun with Game-Based Learning

Raptivity

Game-based learning has witnessed tremendous growth and adoption in the past few years and continues to be recognized as one of the most important elements of the modern learning approach. Endless life lessons have been derived from games that we all have played from childhood until date. Specify Game Rules at The Start.

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Why Play is Essential: How Gaming Helps Children Learn and Grow

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In a world filled with screens and devices, it’s easy to dismiss gaming as simply a form of entertainment. However, research has shown that play is an essential part of game based learning for kindergarten and gaming in particular can have numerous benefits for children. What is Game-Based Learning?

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Game Element: Feedback

Kapp Notes

One feature video games, board games and gamification have over traditional learning environments is the frequency and intensity of feedback. Feedback in games and in gamification is almost constant. In fact, often a screen or a player will flash to indicate the players are in danger of being eliminated with the next wrong move.

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Game Element: Strategy

Kapp Notes

Strategy games are a popular type of games that require players to outwit and outmaneuver fellow players through careful decision making, planning several moves ahead and attempting to predict outcomes and consequences of both their moves and their opponent’s moves. Perhaps one of the best known strategy games is Chess.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings? Essentially, the U.S.

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Game Element: Rewards

Kapp Notes

Rewards are an important part of game play. People do not play games just for the rewards but rewards can help with motivation, provide feedback to learners about progress and rewards are a way of being judged favorably by the game. They are from his great book The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses. Types of Rewards.

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