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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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Learning Games Should Be Part of a Learning Strategy

Kapp Notes

Include learning games as part of a larger learning strategy for the organization, not as simply a “bolt-on” to existing learning or as something “extra.” Games should not be an after thought when designing and instructional strategy. They need to be an integral element within the entire strategy.

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Resources from eLBX Conference

Kapp Notes

Game Element: Strategy. 3 Lessons from Converting a Face-to-Face Role-Play Into an Online Simulation. Types of Structural Gamification. Game Element: Freedom. Game Element: Fantasy. Struggling = Learning. Board Games and Card Games: Leading the Learning Game Field in 2018. An Elusive Definition: “Gamification for Learning”.

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Rewards of Glory and Other Ways to Keep Gamification Interesting

Kapp Notes

In the book, rewards (originally derived from thinking about computer role-playing games) are described as such: Rewards of Glory. When well handled, according to Salen and Zimmerman, rewards of facility should increase the number o strategies and options the player has for playing the game. References. Games Gamification'

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Resources from Training Magazine’s Training 2018 Conference and Expo

Kapp Notes

Here are some resources related to the concepts and ideas behind the presentation: 3 Lessons from Converting a Face-to-Face Role-Play Into an Online Simulation. Game Element: Strategy. An Elusive Definition: “Gamification for Learning”. Types of Structural Gamification. Game Element: Freedom. Game Element: Fantasy.

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DevLearn Student Docent Program

Kapp Notes

In this session we’ll look at actual job descriptions from the eLearning Guild Job Board and explore how best to position yourself as a candidate for the role. How do I get that Job? – You can read more about it here.

DevLearn 150
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Summary of a Literture Review on The Effectiveness of Instructional Games by Robert Hays

Kapp Notes

“It is worth noting that none of the featured companies started in instructional design…they come from business strategy, marketing, and the games industry” Although each company used interdisciplinary design teams to create their instructional games, none of the teams included instructional developers.

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