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Jane McGonigal – Games Designer and Futurist
McGonigal is known for advocating the development and use of games for tackling real-world problems and for fostering mass collaboration. […]
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How To Foster Virtual Environments For Your Dream Team To Thrive.
One of the key factors of high performing teams is the ability to understand each other, even to the extent of understanding the non-verbal messaging. […]
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Liberate your online meetings and events
When I tweeted about how to fully involve and engage 100 people in a full day Zoom workshop, the first response was “a full day – on Zoom?” We are all online on Zoom now. […]
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Focus on… Game Theory and Toy Games
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction among rational decision-makers. It features ‘toy games’ to explain theories of conflict […]
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#Play4Sustainability: Engaging employees in sustainability through play
Sustainability is an aspect of business that is perceived by employees as complex, confusing and time consuming. A topic that is still too often ‘siloed’, leaving employees disengaged and lacking interest to understand the full […]
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Review of Evivve: The Leadership Game
The game set-up is well-balanced to test a range of real-life collaboration, communication, strategy and decision-making skills. […]
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Legacy Games and Tipping Points
One of the much-vaunted advantages of using games to facilitate learning is the idea of the ‘safe environment’. The premise is, that players and teams can experiment with taking actions, and, because there are no […]
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Octalysis Analysis of a Sustainability Learning Programme
When I first discovered Yu-kai Chou’s Octalysis framework, shortly after he published ‘Actionable Gamification’, I knew straight away that I would find it an invaluable tool, not just to help me design learning with learner […]
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Enhancing Biophilia for Sustainability Learning
Edward O Wilson popularised the term Biophilia a hypothesis that humans innately possess “…the urge to affiliate with other forms of life”. […]
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Natural & organisational ecosystems
A design challenge I have frequently tackled over the past few years has been to create games which relate to the functioning of ecosystems. This is not perhaps surprising as I have been delivering learning […]
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Imagining a Better World: Game Design with and for Teens
As long-time youth program developers, several years ago we became curious about game design, inspired in part by Doris Rusch’s work on deep games.[1] In Making Deep Games and her TEDx Talk[2], Rusch describes how […]
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What playing games and turning life into games can teach us?
This article contains a list of twenty-three lessons learned from games and turning our lives into games. This list is an extended excerpt from the book Gameful Project Management. The extensions are mainly from Self-Gamification […]
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Things to keep in mind when developing Educational Games
There are many things that need to be taken into account when developing games that are intended for educational purposes. Whilst every product requires different approach depending on things such as your team size, the […]
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Climate Change-Catalyzed Simulations in the Anthropocene – Going Back to the Future with Jurassic Park?
Water stress, searing heat, refugees, displacement, geopolitical uncertainty. In talking to innovative colleagues in the serious games space in The Hague this past week, the wargaming of the future is complex, and multidimensional—and climate change […]
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Transferable skills learning through games
In any face-to-face learning situation, the facilitator has to consider that they may face dissent from the learners. I used to like to believe that as someone who works with adults, that I wouldn’t have […]