Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 16, 2012
A definition that includes using elements like challenge, story, role-play, feedback–what I call “deeper” game elements. Elements that when applied to instruction raises the level of learner engagement, focus and performance and that’s all documented in the literature regarding learning.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
And designing learning that challenges the learners and, when you challenge learners, at times they will fail but will learn from that failure.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Competition is when students are “constrained from impeding each other and instead devote the entirety of their attentions to optimizing their own performance.” Competition is often associated with structural gamification. Crawford, 2003). Working together and achieving a goal is the winning state of cooperative gamification.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 1, 2014
The characters should represent the learner in some way so the learner can identify with the characters in the story and see themselves learning or performing the correct tasks as is modeled within the game environment. Next there are characters. For example, a branching simulation has many pre-generated decision points.
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.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 23, 2011
We’ve decided to create powerpoint driven downloads of content without immersing the learner in the context of where they will be actually performing the work. We don’t put learners in scenarios or role-plays instead we give them lists of policies and procedures to memorize. It is meant to drive performance.
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 30, 2013
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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