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Review – Coursera’s Futures Thinking Specialisation
The tools are easily and immediately applicable to work and life. Although this learning is about the future, the skills it teaches are applicable immediately […]
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Review – Coursera’s Futures Thinking Specialisation
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Focus on… Zoom Games for Learning
A ‘Zoom Game’ is a game which is designed to be run for a group of people, who will play it while meeting through the video-conferencing platform Zoom. […]
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Agile / Scrum Terminology for Dummies
For those of us who are not experts in Agile / Lean /Scrum. I have created these definitions, but am no expert, so please let me know if any are not right. […]
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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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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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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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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 […]
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How do we gamify sustainability at scale?
Personal behaviour change is arguably one of the most powerful tools that we have in the fight against environmental challenges, such as Climate Change, ecosystem degradation and overuse of natural resources. Although the contribution of […]
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The Resource Management Mechanic in Sustainability Learning
The process of designing learning games should always start with the learning. Games, although they are at the heart of all we do, are just a tool for implementing the outcomes we have already designed. […]
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Ecosystems Game Materials Download
Ecosystem Game from Aprils’s issue of the Magazine – facilitator instructions, team instructions, role cards for teams and suggestions for debrief questions. […]
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Remote IRL Scrabble
This is a game played via Zoom, Skype or similar. This game is played according to the ordinary rules of Scrabble, except […]
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Richard Bartle and his Player Types
Richard Bartle’s taxonomy of player types, from observations of players of Multi User Dungeons. Player types are Killers, Achievers, Socialisers and Explorers […]