Games & Learning
Games and gamification are powerful ways to enhance engagement, adding elements of story, challenge, motivation, and other gaming principles to improve learning outcomes.
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Metafocus: How Realistic Should Your Serious Game Be?
How realistic should your serious game be? Do the quality of the effects matter, or is the quality of the learning experience enough? Read on to find out.
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Spark Behavior Change with Narrative Game-based Learning
A game-based learning approach drives behavior change by encouraging short, daily bursts of training.
By Pamela Hogle • -
Serious Learning Games Can Invigorate Compliance Training
Serious learning games can make compliance training—or any eLearning—engaging and effective.
By Pamela Hogle • -
Metafocus: Serious Games and the Forgetting Curve
Learn how serious games harness the seven principles of the forgetting curve to maximize learning retention.
By Matt Sparks • -
Show Your Compliance Training Some Love
The eLearning Guild just released a new complimentary white paper, Creating Compliance Training Learners Will Love, that aims to enliven mandatory training.
By Cori Miller • -
Learning Agility: Failing to Learn
Have you ever learned something by failing to learn? Are there strategies for deliberately using failure? Here are some insights.
By Arun Pradhan • -
Think Like a Game Designer to Create Meaningful Learning
Think like a game designer in order to create meaningful learning that is engaging and compelling.
By Karl Kapp, Beth Myers • -
Metafocus: André Thomas Discusses Learning Game Development
André Thomas, of Triseum and Texas A&M University, and Matt Sparks discuss the development of learning games—and their integration into higher education.
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Metafocus: Using Educational Video Games as College Courses
André Thomas, of Triseum and Texas A&M University, talks with Matt Sparks about using sophisticated educational video games as stand-alone college courses.
By Matt Sparks • -
BizLibrary Introduces New Product Features at DevLearn
BizLibrary is introducing new features of its online learning product at DevLearn 2017 Conference & Expo.
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