This document discusses the future of games for learning. It outlines how games have evolved from simple games focused on individual play (Gamer 1.0) to more complex games that teach higher-order thinking skills like pattern recognition and decision making (Gamer 2.0 and 3.0). It suggests games will continue integrating into other applications to enhance training and assessment. Examples mentioned include using games to teach energy efficiency certification and inventory skills. The document also notes how virtual elements are crossing into the physical world through mixed reality and serious games used for simulations.

1. The Future of
Games for Learning
By:
Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D.
Author, Professor‐Instructional Technology
Bloomsburg University
Twitter: @kkapp

2. How did we get
to this point?
Why are we here?

3. Brief history of…
The World

6. We’ve learned and struggled for a few
years here figuring out how to make a
decent phone. PC guys are not going
to just figure this out.
They’re not going to just walk in.
--Palm CEO Ed Colligan, 16 Nov 2006

7. In what year did text
messaging surpass
voice calls on mobile
phones?
2008

8. 64% of 18‐29
use
SmartPhone to
access Internet

9. Gamer 1.0
4 2
3

10. Gamer 1.0
4 3
How will the ball
Where is my
bounce off the wall?
opponent
going to go next?
In what direction
should I try to move
the ball?

11. Gamer 2.0

12. Gamer 2.0
What is the pattern
Should I shoot the aliens
these aliens are
on the end or in the
following?
middle or all the bottom
aliens first?
How long do I have to
shoot before an alien
shoots at me?

14. What actions should I
take based on this
information?

15. Gamer 3.0

17. What must I do to
Where do I explore achieve my goal?
first?
What activities are of
the most value?

18. What variables do I
balance to keep my How should I manage
person happy? my time?

19. Gamer 4.0

20. Gamer 4.0 What activities give
me the most return
for my efforts?
Can I trust this person
who wants to team
with me to
accomplish a goal?

21. What can we create
together?

22. Games within
Products.
What leadership
strategy should I use?

23. What leadership
strategy should I use?

24. Mobile
Gaming.

25. Large scale games played for
business concepts.
Merchant: Negotiation
Courtesy of Game On! Learning

26. Game level on top of
reality

27. http://youtu.be/Y5ywMb6SeGc

29. Game “elements” making
their way into other
training.

30. Games as Assessments.
Energy efficiency
certification requires a
field test.

31. Interplay Energy, in partnership with the Residential
Energy Services Network (RESNET) created a
simulation to measure applied knowledge and
understanding like a physical field test.

32. Objectives included:
• Gas line leak detection
• Ambient CO testing
• Unvented appliance testing (ovens and stove top
burners primarily)
• Proper equipment usage
• Appliance identification
• Combustion appliance Zone (CAZ) understanding
• Worst Case Depressurization
• Vented Appliance (furnace, boilers, water heaters)
tests: spillage, CO, draft

35. http://msit.bloomu.edu/db10149/jobquest/TW_applet.html

36. “Flight Simulators” for
everything else
Inventory Observation
Kapp, K. & O’Driscoll T. ( 2010) Learning in 3D: Adding a new dimension to enterrpise
learning and collaboration. Pfeffier. PP.416.

41. Learners journey through a
series of activities designed
to synthesize conceptual
learning.

42. Learning changes from being Disembodied and
Transactional to Embodied, Relational and Experiential.

43. Game elements crossing
from virtual to Physical
world.