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Coding Adventures: Introducing Programming Concepts through Game-Based Learning in K12

Hurix Digital

This is where game-based learning, a powerful approach to K12 education , comes in. Games are a fundamental part of childhood, fostering creativity, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking. Games are a fundamental part of childhood, fostering creativity, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking.

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Gamified Assessments: Evaluating Learning Outcomes with Educational Video Games

Hurix Digital

Game-based learning in education is more popular than ever. But it’s not just students who are benefiting from game-based e-learning. Educators are also benefiting thanks to game-based assessments that provide opportunities for interactive assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments.

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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. One type of feedback often in games and gamification that helps with learning is conformational feedback.

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What Is Game Based Learning?

Upside Learning

I spent close to a year laboring under the delusion that game based learning was all about incorporating course material into a game. If I incorporate all the course learning objectives into a game setting and keep score – it qualifies as game based learning doesn’t it? What makes a good learning game?

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Free learning & development webinars for April 2022

Limestone Learning

Using the familiarity and flexibility of email, these simulation-based assessments immerse trainees in day-in-the-life scenarios, while objectively evaluating essential business skills in a real-world environment. How can organizations possibly address all this while meeting critical business needs in a disruptive environment?

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How Educational Games Enhance Engagement in K-12 Education

Hurix Digital

In recent years, using educational games in the classroom has soared in popularity. Though game-based learning has been in use for generations, gamification in learning has become one of the leading digital learning tools that educators employ in K-12 education.

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Five Lessons From Learning Game Development

Upside Learning

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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