eLearningworld News The German car manufacturer Audi has chosen a gamified path to train salesmen in partner-companies. It is focusing on skills improvements in service and dealer development, and it is introduced by the Audi Virtual Training. The trainee uses an avatar to walk around in a virtual game environment in …
eLearningworld News In the intersection of technology, social sciences and design the founders of Fields Of View are creating games to improve policy-making. The clients are on every level from local authorities to the UN. This as an answer to questions like, how to make policymaking more relevant in people’s …
eLearningworld News At the summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and healthcare hosted by MIT, Robert Califf, the vice chancellor for health data science at Duke University and former FDA commissioner said the following: “Things have to change, but the fundamental that shouldn’t change is that you …
eLearningworld News A new report from McAfee shows that 46 percent of respondents believe that the number of cyberthreats will increase and where some think it will be impossible to defend against them. The problem becomes much worse because of “the cybersecurity skills crisis”, according to the respondents. Automation is …
eLearningworld News Reactland is a new campaign in form of a virtual reality game from Nike directed towards customers in four shops in China. The game lets the customer’s test drive the shoes in a virtual environment in form of an avatar. Where they run and jump in a rough …
eLearningworld News How to improve language learning in school? In a EU funded project via the Erasmus+ programme, partner schools from Malta, Spain, Poland, Greece, Turkey and Italy are exploring the opportunities. The driving forces on the gamified learning area in comparison with traditional pedagogy is engaging storytelling, problem-solving and …
eLearningworld News New research from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Medicine shows that the company of a friend and a gamified application is the best environment to reach your exercising goals. This means that social interaction and a gamified mechanisms that …
Last week I visited the ICT Spring 2017 conference in Luxembourg, which was a very inspiring event with speakers like the co-founder of TomTom, Peter Frans Pauwels, interesting startups like MyMusicTeacher and Jo Bertram, Regional General Manager for Northern Europe at Uber that talked about the power of sharing to …
eLearningworld News A new scientific discovery game, developed by Center for Game Science at Washington University in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, has the purpose of enabling citizen scientists to build complete 3D-reconstructions of neurons from different regions of the brain in animals and people.The public research …
eLearningworld News Can digital games improve healthcare? That is what the annual Games4Health Challenge competition is trying to find out. The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at University of Utah that is arranging the competition invites college students from all over the world to design games that motivate healthy changes in behavior. …
