Andrew Hughes
President, Designing Digitally, Inc.
Andrew Hughes is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. and has over a decade in the strategical planning and development of enterprise custom gamified learning solutions for government and Fortune 500 clients. Andrew is also a professor at the University of Cincinnati and prior to this was a contractor for the US Department of Education, Ohio Board of Regents, and General Electric. Andrew oversees a team of 30 employees and is focused on ensuring the clients’ challenges are met with engaging, educational, and entertaining learning experiences.
Latest from Andrew Hughes
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Does Your Learning Ecosystem Support Current and Future Needs?
What will a flexible, technology-enabled learning ecosystem require in order to support a successful workforce? The strategies and trends are already apparent.
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Project Management: The Devil Is in the Details
While successful project management is often not easy, it is simple; this article summarizes the key guidelines. The half-dozen tips suggested in this article cover most of what you must do.
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Comparing Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning
When a company decides to embark on an eLearning project, there are many decisions to make. One of these decisions is about the choice between synchronous and asynchronous learning. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches? Here’s a quick guide!
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Gamification and Game-based Learning: When to Use Them
“Gamification” and “game-based learning” are buzzwords in the education and training industry. Although both are innovative ways to train your learners, they aren’t actually interchangeable. While both may relate to education and training, each supports learning in a different way. Here’s a quick comparison!
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In Serious Games, Analytics Are Everything!
Learning analytics—the measurement, compilation, and analysis of data for the purpose of optimizing learning outcomes—is an important part of serious game development. Analytics provides the development team with actionable insights for improving results. Here are three basic methods that game developers can use to begin collecting data!
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Serious Game Secrets: Best Practices Revealed
Serious games are a great way to engage and entertain your workforce as you educate them. Here are some hints from the experts that will help you create and maintain effective immersive learning!
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Putting Together Your Serious Game Development Team
What does it take to make an award-winning serious game? Technology and skills are important, but team dynamics make the essential difference. Andrew Hughes and his team at Designing Digitally share their lessons learned in this guide to team and process.