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AI Tools, Games, Freelancing: ID Links 2/14/23

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on AI tools, games, freelancing, top learning influencers, copyright, and more. Games and branching scenarios Play GO VIRAL! Stop Covid-19 misinformation spreading Great example of a quick game to educate people. PDF) Video game meets literature: language learning with Interactive Fiction. |

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Games, Organizing, & Motivation: ID Links 10/25/22

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on games built in Twine, storytelling, organization, useful tools, motivation, and transitioning from teaching to ID. Games built in Twine. Top games made with Twine – itch.io. All of the top games made with Twine on the hosting platform itch.io. Storytelling and CYOA books.

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Insights for L&D, Twine, Games: ID Links 3/8/22

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on insights for L&D, Twine, game design, graphic design, and quality assurance for elearning. Games and branching scenarios. How to Craft Branched Scenario Choices Like a Game Designer – E-Learning Heroes. Plus, Bianca includes recommendations for games to try for more ideas.

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Games for Learning, Video Captions: ID Links 12/14/21

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on games for learning, video captions, and how to handle “pick your brain” requests. Games for learning. “Game Making for Dummies” | HiEv Heavy Industries on Patreon. 6 Things Video Games Can Teach You About Writing Engaging Scenarios – E-Learning Heroes.

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How to Fix the 10 Biggest Mistakes in Gamification

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, ELB Learning

According to instructional designers interviewed by The Game Agency, some errors are very common when implementing gamified learning. Don't miss how to make your training stick!

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Success Factors For Serious Games in L&D

Dashe & Thomson

What are Serious Games? Serious games leverage the playful aspect of games to help learners easily and effectively grasp new content. For serious games to be effective they must enable the player to utilize their skills, while adapting to the new skills or information being taught throughout the game.

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L&D and D&D: Learning and Role Playing Games

Experiencing eLearning

I was invited to be part of a discussion about D&D (Dungeons and Dragons), role playing games, and learning. We discussed our experiences with paper RPGs, both as players and DMs (Dungeon Masters, the folks who run games). We talked about how games overlap with instructional design. It was a really fun, geeky conversation.

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How Games Motivate People and Applying it to eLearning

B Online Learning

Every year globally, people spend huge amounts of money and time playing games. Most people who engage in video games choose to do so voluntarily, because it is fun and […]. The post How Games Motivate People and Applying it to eLearning appeared first on B Online Learning.

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6 Design Tips for Building Effective Learning Games

LearnDash

But how do you design a game for your course? I learned to type from an old computer game. It offered several typing games, each designed to teach a certain skill—where to find letters on the keyboard, where to find numbers, how to use capitals and punctuation, and (the hardest) how to gain a sense of rhythm. (I Interactive.

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5 Game-based Training Examples

Ed App

Game-based training has gained popularity as it’s more engaging and enjoyable than traditional forms of training. If you’re looking for ways to implement this, let’s look at some game-based training examples you can use. What is Game-based Training? Game-Based Training Example #1 – Simulations.

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Everyone Wins! How Games Can Improve Learning Outcomes Across Multiple Generations

Speaker: Stephen Baer, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Game Agency

Nearly 70% of American adults play video games. Because games provide a fun, motivational, and risk-free medium to compete, collaborate, and conquer. More and more instructional designers are asking what games they should use to increase the effectiveness of their training and to engage their target audience.

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Board Games and Card Games: Leading the Learning Game Field in 2018

Kapp Notes

If past is prologue, the learning game industry is set for a wild ride in 2018. One of the most interesting trends and developments across the gaming industry is the surge in the popularity of both board and card games. Resurgence of “Analog” Games. In fact, in 2017 over 5,000 board games were introduced into the U.S.

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The Game Agency Wins Gold Learning Technologies Best Learning Game Award

eLearning Industry

The Game Agency, a division of ELB Learning, won a Gold Learning Technologies Award for Best Learning Game. The game-based course, sponsored by the NHL, taps into students' interests, specifically video games and sports, in order to teach STEM skills. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Adaptive Assessments: A Game Changer for Students with Learning Disabilities

eLearning Company

Unlike traditional standardized testing methods, which present the same questions to every test-taker, adaptive assessments administer questions dynamically adjusted to a student’s … Continue reading "Adaptive Assessments: A Game Changer for Students with Learning Disabilities" The post Adaptive Assessments: A Game Changer for Students (..)

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What Is UX In Games?

eLearning Industry

As the video game industry expands, game designers are already aware that the concentration of strategy and culture on the player will generate a positive User Experience that will raise user engagement. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Stop Thinking Like an Instructional Designer, Start Thinking Like a Game Designer

Speaker: Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology, Bloomsburg University

Game designers tend to think action first. As a result, most games are engaging, intriguing, and immersive, while instructional content tends to be boring and perfunctory. Simply changing your mindset from instructional designer to game designer will help you to create engaging and effective instruction.

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[UPDATED] Game-changing Moodle™ Plugins

Lambda Solutions

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eBook Launch: Rethink Training With Virtual Reality And Games

eLearning Industry

Download this eBook by ELB Learning to make the most of Virtual Reality and games and transform your training program. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why Is Game-Based Learning Important?

eLearning Industry

This article discusses game-based learning, including its benefits and the various forms it can take in children's education. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Game Design: Magic Spells to Get Learners Spell-bound with Learning

G-Cube

As a learning and development professional (L&D), have you always secretly envied gaming apps for their ranking on the engagement meter? What is it about these gaming apps that have people hooked for hours? People stay up all night to achieve different game levels, even spending money to buy points.

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Virtual Sales Coaching 2.0: How Time-Shifted Video and AI are Changing the Game

Speaker: Jonathan Carlson, Senior Director of Marketing, and Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Allego

How enhancements in artificial intelligence are changing the coaching game. During this webinar you will learn: What the latest research says about virtual coaching. 5 ways to use asynchronous video to improve your virtual coaching. Practical recommendations for adapting coaching to a virtual environment. And much more!

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Game-based training delivers significant ROI for EQ call centers

Attensi

The post Game-based training delivers significant ROI for EQ call centers appeared first on Attensi.

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5 Criticalities While Designing Game-Based Learning

eLearning Industry

Hence, they need to take compliance training more seriously, using game-based learning. Companies have a lot at stake when it comes to compliance. If anything goes wrong, they have to bear the brunt of the fallout. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Testing Games vs. Teaching Games

Kapp Notes

There is an important difference between games that teach a learner how to do something and games that test what a learner already knows. Too often those two types of games are confused and an instructional designer or other person places the wrong type of game into the curriculum.

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Game-based Learning: Improving Skills Training

G-Cube

The days of traditional classroom sessions involving loads of reading exercises are quickly being replaced by game-based learning. Game-based learning has become a popular trend, and HR managers enjoy maximum participation from such training programs. Need For Game-based Learning. 2- Improves attention span and retention power.

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The Four “Levels” of Gamification Implementation in Learning Experiences

Speaker: Jonathan Peters, PhD, Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification

Unfortunately, many people think that gamification means adding a simple activity, creating a computer or a video game, or just adding points, badges, and a leaderboard to their learning program.

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Watch Us Build a Wheel of Fortune® Training Game

eLearning Brothers

® training game. This time around, they showed us how to build a Wheel Of Fortune® game using ELB Learning’s The Training Arcade®. ELB Learning owns the only licensed Wheel of Fortune training game. In their last webinar , Jake Kwiatkowski and Carrie Wiser demonstrated how to build a Jeopardy!®

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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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Game Element: Freedom

Kapp Notes

We don’t often think of something as abstract as “freedom” as a game element but actually, “freedom” is a large part of games. Games give you the freedom to fail, you can safely do something wrong and then start over again with minimal consequences and almost no longer term negative implications.

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Game Element: Balance

Kapp Notes

The concept of “balance” in a game experience encompasses many ideas. Everyone wants to create a balanced game…it’s just…what is a balanced game? Is it a game that unfolds at a comfortable pace but with surprises thrown-in? Is it the idea of not too challenging but not too difficult?

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Partnering Well on a Rapid Timeline

Speaker: Becci Zweirs, Learning Projects Leader, Inno-Versity, Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist, Inno-Versity, and Pam Whetstone, Training Development Manager, Williams-Sonoma

Learn how they co-created a luxury brand look that employed a simple game approach to a technical AS400 system. Incorporate creative animation and game elements into highly brand-focused eLearning modules. Our speakers will share valuable lessons learned, including how to partner well with a vendor and support a large roll-out.

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6 Game Types for Learning

LearnDash

Incorporating gaming methodology into formal learning events is a great way to help learners grasp complex concepts. What might not be as well known is that the use of games for teaching initiatives is more than just throwing up leaderboards and ways for distributing points. Used best when reinforcing singular lesson objectives.

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10 eLearning Games

Ed App

If you’re interested in using games in eLearning to make your lessons more fun and exciting, then we’ve got here some eLearning games you can consider. These eLearning games are designed to be interactive for learners and effective in improving their learning retention. . eLearning Game #1 – Word Find.

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10 eLearning Games

Ed App

If you’re interested in using games in eLearning to make your lessons more fun and exciting, then we’ve got here some eLearning games you can consider. These eLearning games are designed to be interactive for learners and effective in improving their learning retention. . eLearning Game #1 – Word Find.

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How To Use Game-Based Learning To Train Your New Team Members

eLearning Industry

Game-based learning is the perfect solution to help your new hires adjust quickly and learn more effectively. Let's dive into some examples and all the benefits that come with them. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Does Your Company Need Help Solving These 4 Common eLearning Challenges?

If you want to know how to get ahead of the game and avoid the common mishaps in selling your eLearning courses, you’ve come to the right place! Lambda Solutions has identified the most common and costly challenges faced by eLearning providers today. These include: Overcoming the high cost of scaling.

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Tool For Creating Educational Games

LearnDash

In recent years games have started to play a bigger role in not only learning but also elearning. There has been quite a bit written on the topic of games, gamification, and gaming elements in training & education. But what about games? But Dan also has a passion for games as well as education. Enter Gamefroot.

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Crosswords in Claro: an eLearning Game Sample

dominKnow

In past blog articles, we've talked about the difference between eLearning gamification and eLearning games. Gamification involves leveraging certain game mechanics to increase engagement. Learners won't necessarily be aware they're playing a game.

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ELBX Online 2022: Why Embrace Games and Gamification

eLearning Brothers

In the ELBX Online 2022 session: Why Embrace Games and Gamification, we learn valuable insights from speaker Karl Kapp of Bloomsburg University. In his presentation, he answers 3 key questions:

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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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How Video Learning Is Transforming Skill Mastery in Sales

Speaker: Pat D'Amico, Founder and CEO, About-Face Development

Join us as we delve into how technology advancements in learning are changing the game and why it’s critical to sales success. Video learning is not new, but the marriage of video learning and today’s technology is transforming our ability to achieve skill mastery in sales.