Integrating engagement in an organization with gamification So you have reached a new level, WOW! Great work! Higher-level often means higher status, you feel the heat, must continue, to the next level and even higher status is within your reach. You never know what is waiting around the next corner …
When so-called serious games for learning purposes first was introduced the focus was set on its benefits to provide a purposeful, fun way to develop cognitive change and knowledge. But can this non-traditional teaching tool also be a source of behavioural change? Research from the eConfidence project and Schoolnet shows …
The possibilities of making games to improve history education are next to endless. Strategy, simulations of events and to explore connections between different events or ages, is only some of the ways to empowering history education digitally to activate the learner. Mehmet Şükrü Kuran, Ahmet Erdem Tozoğlu, Cinzia Tavernari at …
eLearningworld News Three researchers from Tallinn University have participated in the development of three agile serious games for engineering students. One of the games is based on Scrum that is a rugby term that focuses on situations when the strategy have to be changed very fast. This game is beside …
eLearningworld News Social and emotional learning skills are one of the main pillars to a child’s success in school and later in life. But still, the understanding how to boost those skills is lagging behind. Megan McClelland, the Katherine E. Smith Healthy Children and Families Professor in Human Development and …
eLearningworld News from US New research from Yale University shows a correlation between using brain training games and boosting the performance both when comes to reading skills as well as math skills. The game called “Activate” that was used is developed by Yale and Dr Bruce Wexler, professor emeritus of psychiatry …
eLearningworld News from South Korea Aspiring game developers from ten different universities from all over the world at the moment is getting together for Global Applied Game Jam 2016 held at POSTECH in South Korea. The concept of the show is a 48-hour game development challenge to develop playable applied …
eLearningworld News from US Science Game Lab is a new portal that aims to become a central hub for citizen scientists, gamers, microvolunteers, students, researchers, educators and developers to come together and advance science. The Lab is initiated by The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and built as a portal that aims …
