Or Why Games Won’t Cure the Common Cold, but They Will Solve a Lot of Other Problems by Rich Mesch Welcome to the next stop on the blog tour for Karl Kapp’s new book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction! Hop off that blog bus and shake the dust off. When reading Karl Kapp’s new [...]
Archive for the ‘Learning Games’ Category
The Chocofication of Learning
Posted in Learning Games, Performance Improvement, tagged Games, Innovation Strategy, Learning Games, Performance Improvement on April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
How Games Improve Performance, Part 2: Why Are Games Effective?
Posted in Learning Games, Series, tagged Learning Games, Learning Theory on August 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Rich Mesch Other posts in this series: 1 2 Do you want your learners to collaborate? To demonstrate leadership skills? To drive towards a goal? To evaluate and analyze situations before committing to a decision? To value the perspectives of others? Then you definitely want them playing games. Most of us have probably played Monopoly. [...]
How Games Improve Performance, Part 1: An Introduction
Posted in Learning Games, Series, tagged Learning Games on August 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Rich Mesch Other posts in this series: 1 2 I first started talking to businesses about using games to improve performance way back in 1985. Back then, I was working mostly with mid-level and senior mangers, so talking about games required hushed tones and euphemisms. After all, busy important managers couldn’t spend time playing games. [...]
Learning from Game Developers
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Learning Games, Simulation, tagged Design, Games, Simulation on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Dave Darrow For the longest time, we’ve had to avoid using the “g-word” when describing things like business simulation and virtual worlds. As proved by Clark Aldrich and Karl Kapp, the tide is turning and the value in game-like experiences for learning is becoming more evident. This mindset is somewhat obvious for people [...]
