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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. […]
Workplace Learning
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Pizza KATA II Retrospect is a Mindset and Not an Action
Teams need to retrospect to get better, not just to celebrate wins. If teams want to improve they need to change what was wrong, or even not quite perfect. […]
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Pizza KATA or “Change is a Mindset and not an Action”
Sometimes it is not easy to make experiments, because we need realistic, failsafe and quick situations. Here is where games could support people […]
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Change: a Game of Probabilities and Behaviours
Based on experience, our behaviour will be heavily biased for, or against the recently announced organisational change initiative at our place of work. […]
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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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Dementia: changing attitudes with a game.
The Dementia Awareness Game is a digital game that improves knowledge of dementia and attitudes to people living with dementia. […]
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Four Reasons Game-Based Learning Makes Corporate Training Better
Game-based Learning has the ability to build strong associations with reality – a direct correlation with how you may deal with similar situations in real life. […]
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A dialogue about creating a new game using two different lenses
When you are playing (in) a game you are actually interacting with a system. Understanding how the system is working is the basic nature of System Thinking. So, a player is a natural Systems Thinker. […]
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Gamification of Strategic Thinking with a COTS boardgame
Editor’s note – while Ludogogy is most definitely a magazine and not a journal, and we normally publish relatively short articles, I thought that this more academically written article, submitted by Thorsten Kodalle, had a […]
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EdUTeam Wargames – Table-top wargames to train business school students
The work presented in this article is part of the EdUTeam educational and research project to assess the relevance of leisure games in higher education (https://eduteam.fr/). Our text is particularly interested in table-top wargames that […]
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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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Wargaming: The Challenges of Preconceptions
Imagine that inevitable moment, usually with a mug or a glass in hand, that someone I’ve just met asks me what I do for a living. It used to be so simple. “Oh, I’m in […]
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Business Wargaming….for an uncertain world
Against the dramatic backdrop of the COVID-19 virus outbreak around the world, how can businesses develop a better understanding of their risks and uncertainties moving forward and stress-test their future opportunities? Wargaming can help organisations […]
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From Battlefield to Boardroom….. and back again!
Wargaming, red teaming……. these terms can often seem misleading. Much of it stems from the fact that the military heritage behind them gives them a credence all of their own. Having served in the Royal […]
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Why Playful Thinkers are Enjoying 2020
I think, as years go, we can all agree 2020 hasn’t been what any of us had in mind. As someone who travels internationally for work, enjoys planning events up to 6 months in advance […]