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How to Make Your Learners Feel Like Rockstars
How do you really become a rockstar? Practice. Lots of practice. But for most people practising the same songs and notes over and over can get pretty tedious. […]
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What’s in a Game? – Debriefing Learning Games
Many have discovered that learning games and playful activities are effective for learning if you are required to use ‘online’, rather than a classroom setting. […]
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Games and Gamification as a tool for Social Change
Games make a difference, today more than ever. When people play, they get inspired and open to learn new things while interacting with each other. […]
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Behavioural Change through Transformational Games
Cultural change is deeply behavioural, if you want a new culture, it means you have to define a new way of being, starting with changing individual behaviour […]
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Unlock Behaviour Change with Games-based Learning
One of the most challenging aims of games-based learning is behavioural change. How can a game-based experience affect the long-term behaviour of players? […]
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Will gamification improve pro-social behaviours, motivation, academic and vocational orientation?
The perspective of a French Economics, Social Sciences and Management teacher Expressing a vision of the future is taking a risk. Nevertheless, it’s useful to imagine what where the underlying and powerful trends of today […]
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Observing how games teach players to think and plan ahead
I have always subscribed to the idea that almost every game has something to teach you as you play it. Whether it is sharing a philosophical world view with games like ‘Spec Ops: The Line’(YAGER […]
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Worldbuilding in Game-based Learning Environments – A System and a Tool
The Fun Paradox While playing videogames, children seem to reach immersion levels not found anywhere else. They go to sleep thinking about how soon they can be awake again so they can keep playing. While […]
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Start on Day 3: Liminality in High-Stress Wargames
“Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the first day of the crisis response wargame! Please note that the crisis actually started three days ago. Half of your computers are down, a third of your employees […]
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Increasing Engagement by 2000% Using Games
I run a certification program in which I help trainers and facilitators learn how to use a multiplayer game to facilitate their own virtual learning experiences. Because of the multiplayer and virtual nature of my […]
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Communicating through games
The more work I do with teams and groups, the more it becomes apparent that communication is the absolute foundation to everything that goes around it. You can’t build trust without talking. You can’t explore […]
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Designing for accessibility in games
What is Game Accessibility? Broadly speaking, game accessibility refers to the accessibility of all gaming products including video games, tabletop RPGs (role-playing games) and board games. Accessibility involves two key issues: how people [with disabilities] […]
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Making an impact with Educational Stories
Although I have no experience of being a teacher, if there’s one thing that I do know, it’s enjoying a good engaging story, especially when there is a lesson to be learned from the events […]
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Once Upon a Webinar
Once upon a time, an engineer ‘Nour’ from the future was faced by a huge challenge where the air pollution forced humans to stay home as the air became no more breathable. As an engineer […]
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THE REMOTE FRAMEWORK: Guide to Remote Working
Turbulent times for engagementThe world is going through turbulent times. We are all busy adjusting to unprecedented realities. Companies worldwide have had to readjust to at least one aspect of this ‘new ‘normal’: many of […]