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Making the Value of ‘Together’ Better: Local Gamification
According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, gamification entered the 5th stage – ‘stabilization in 2022, moving from the 2nd stage – ‘before popularization’ in 2012. […]
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How to Help Your Child Fall In Love With Learning
Learning done well is more like play than ‘work’. There are many games which can help to instill learning skills, as you and your family enjoy time together. […]
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Play, Learn, Speak: How Games Transform Language Learning
Language learning is big business. Games-based learning and gamification have emerged as powerful tools to engage learners and enhance language acquisition […]
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Resisting the Purge – LinkedIn as a Game Platform
Can anything be a game? I think the answer is probably ‘Yes’, and I want to try out the idea that ‘real-life’, e.g. work, can be deliberately designed gamefully […]
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Gamification – A Recovering Force Towards the Archetype
Why would Steve Jobs want to trade all his tech for an afternoon with Socrates? Why did he say, “In Apple’s DNA, it’s technology married with liberal arts.” […]
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Purpose Increases Pleasure in Serious Games
An infographic compiled from Dive Deeper: Empirical Analysis of Game Mechanics and Perceived Value in Serious Games, looking at how purpose increases pleasure. […]
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Learning Models in Educational Game Interactions: A Review
This infographic summarises Learning Models in Educational Game Interactions: A Review – which is a literature review by Syahidi, Supianto, Hirashima and Tolle […]
Application
Card Games or Board Games?
Using the Theory of Flow and the PENS model of player experience, this study explores differences in types of experiences depending on the games being played. […]
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How Games Can Help You Navigate the Workplace
Although playing video games may seem counterintuitive to workplace productivity, the values that people can learn from games may benefit the overall business. […]
Ideas
Playing your Cards Right – Walkman Lab
As soon as you are introduced to a game and its storyline, your resources and characters, the meeples, the boards, are literally and figuratively in your hands. […]
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Socializing Games
Rarely are games alone the catalyst for students reaching their learning outcomes. How do players use, play, and develop from a socialized gaming environment? […]
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Five Ways to Keep Kids Learning in the Holidays
The key, according to many experts is to allow self-directed activity – and not to act as some kind of entertainments manager for your kids. […]
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What is the core value of metaverse?
The meaning of the metaverse is still hard to define, although the word was created more than thirty years ago. Is it devices, avatars or the space itself? […]
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What is Gamification?
What makes something “gamified?” How can gamification be used strategically? What are the pitfalls of gamification and how can we avoid them? […]
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Games are Just Invitations to the Magic Circle
Are ‘magic circles’ only found in games and play, or is that entering magic circle, means the activity you are taking part in is, in some way, playful? […]