The Case of the Disengaged Distance LearnerKarl Kapp
Learner engagement is key to meaningful and deep learning. However, most online instruction provides abundant content with minimal opportunities for learners to interact and engage with that content. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Based on solid research and years of experience teaching with technology, This presentation explores practical and inexpensive methods to infuse online learning programs with engagement, interactivity, and fun.
TH504 - Stop Thinking Like an Instructional Designer: Start Thinking Like a G...Karl Kapp
Instructional designers tend to think content first and then action. Game designers think action first. As a result, most games are engaging, intriguing, and immersive. Most instruction tends to be boring and perfunctory. Simply changing your mindset from instructional designer to game designer will help you to create engaging and effective instruction. Learn five methods to help you think like a game designer and change your stale training into an exciting and interesting experience for the learners.
Application on the Job:
Create engaging instruction using game design techniques.
Apply five methods for thinking activity first, content second.
Explore how game designers engage players and immerse them in the game environment.
Discover how game fosters action and activity.
The Quest for Engaged Students: Technology, Millennials & LearninKarl Kapp
In an increasingly connected world, how does one hold the attention of students? Can the ubiquitous Smartphones and tablets actually be used to engage students instead of distracting them? Can we combine the best of traditional and modern teaching methods to create deeper learning and engagement with students? Can a lecture be redesigned to hold the attention of the students? Engagement and deep thinking is possible in a lecture by incorporating simple game elements into the instructional delivery. The result is interactive, engaging instruction which increases retention and application of learned content. Discover methods for engaging Millennials by participating in an interactive, game-like learning experience combining the technology of PowerPoint, a little imagination, and an audience response system.
B.Y.O.D.: The Engagement Abyss: Three Effective Methods to Engage LearnersEng...Karl Kapp
Learner engagement can be elusive. It is difficult to grab and hold a learner’s attention with so many smartphone distractions at their desk or at their fingertips. But engagement is possible through specific techniques that command attention and engage the learner.
In this session you will learn how to engage learners and how to present content using gamification techniques such as storytelling, feedback, and competition. During this session you will simultaneously learn about engagement techniques and experience them. These techniques will help you to create more engaging instruction within your own organizations or for your clients. You’ll be able to apply these simple techniques to your learning design almost immediately.
Distance Learning Conference 2020 The Quest for Engagement: Let the Games Beg...Karl Kapp
Engaging students is a difficult task. They are constantly confronted with distractions and demands on their time. So how can we create instruction that pulls student into the content and helps them gain the knowledge required to be successful? How do we grab and hold attention? How do we motivate students to engage with the content we are teaching? Participate in this keynote and engage in solving this mystery in this interactive presentation.
This decidedly nonacademic presentation will present research findings and resources related to creating engaging instruction using the same techniques as video games. The presentation discusses using game elements appropriate for presenting learning content and how using only a small part of techniques lead to increased learning motivation.
And, yes, you will play a polling game in this session. Discover firsthand how research-based practices and game-thinking are used to engage learners, increase learning, and lead to increased engagement.
Tools of Engagement: "Tools of Engagement: Gamification, Storytelling and A...Karl Kapp
Using game elements to create interactive, engaging instruction doesn't have to mean investing hours and hours into the development of a full-scale Halo-type game. Creating an interactive, game-like learning experience can be done simply and easily with PowerPoint, a little imagination, and an audience response system. In this workshop, you will create an interactive game-like learning experience using game thinking and game elements such as storytelling, mystery, immediate feedback, and friendly competition. Learn how to craft a gamified instructional story based on learning science to engage, motivate and educate your learners.
NOTE: Please bring a laptop or a tablet with PowerPoint and a phone capable of texting so that you can both experience and design engaging game-like instruction.
Solving the Case of the Disengaged LearnerKarl Kapp
Grabbing and holding the attention of learners is getting harder and harder. In fact, the average person sends or receives more than 150 text messages a day. This means your learner's attention is not always focused on the content you have designed or are delivering to them. How do you design instruction that engages and motivates the learner? How do you make learning exciting, interesting, and memorable? The answer is to use evidence-based techniques to engage and motivate. This presentation will use an audience response system and a case study to demonstrate the key elements required to make learning engaging. You will learn five techniques for creating engaging and memorable learning events all while playing a game. Don't miss this energetic and fun presentation.
The Case of the Disengaged Distance LearnerKarl Kapp
Learner engagement is key to meaningful and deep learning. However, most online instruction provides abundant content with minimal opportunities for learners to interact and engage with that content. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Based on solid research and years of experience teaching with technology, This presentation explores practical and inexpensive methods to infuse online learning programs with engagement, interactivity, and fun.
TH504 - Stop Thinking Like an Instructional Designer: Start Thinking Like a G...Karl Kapp
Instructional designers tend to think content first and then action. Game designers think action first. As a result, most games are engaging, intriguing, and immersive. Most instruction tends to be boring and perfunctory. Simply changing your mindset from instructional designer to game designer will help you to create engaging and effective instruction. Learn five methods to help you think like a game designer and change your stale training into an exciting and interesting experience for the learners.
Application on the Job:
Create engaging instruction using game design techniques.
Apply five methods for thinking activity first, content second.
Explore how game designers engage players and immerse them in the game environment.
Discover how game fosters action and activity.
The Quest for Engaged Students: Technology, Millennials & LearninKarl Kapp
In an increasingly connected world, how does one hold the attention of students? Can the ubiquitous Smartphones and tablets actually be used to engage students instead of distracting them? Can we combine the best of traditional and modern teaching methods to create deeper learning and engagement with students? Can a lecture be redesigned to hold the attention of the students? Engagement and deep thinking is possible in a lecture by incorporating simple game elements into the instructional delivery. The result is interactive, engaging instruction which increases retention and application of learned content. Discover methods for engaging Millennials by participating in an interactive, game-like learning experience combining the technology of PowerPoint, a little imagination, and an audience response system.
B.Y.O.D.: The Engagement Abyss: Three Effective Methods to Engage LearnersEng...Karl Kapp
Learner engagement can be elusive. It is difficult to grab and hold a learner’s attention with so many smartphone distractions at their desk or at their fingertips. But engagement is possible through specific techniques that command attention and engage the learner.
In this session you will learn how to engage learners and how to present content using gamification techniques such as storytelling, feedback, and competition. During this session you will simultaneously learn about engagement techniques and experience them. These techniques will help you to create more engaging instruction within your own organizations or for your clients. You’ll be able to apply these simple techniques to your learning design almost immediately.
Distance Learning Conference 2020 The Quest for Engagement: Let the Games Beg...Karl Kapp
Engaging students is a difficult task. They are constantly confronted with distractions and demands on their time. So how can we create instruction that pulls student into the content and helps them gain the knowledge required to be successful? How do we grab and hold attention? How do we motivate students to engage with the content we are teaching? Participate in this keynote and engage in solving this mystery in this interactive presentation.
This decidedly nonacademic presentation will present research findings and resources related to creating engaging instruction using the same techniques as video games. The presentation discusses using game elements appropriate for presenting learning content and how using only a small part of techniques lead to increased learning motivation.
And, yes, you will play a polling game in this session. Discover firsthand how research-based practices and game-thinking are used to engage learners, increase learning, and lead to increased engagement.
Tools of Engagement: "Tools of Engagement: Gamification, Storytelling and A...Karl Kapp
Using game elements to create interactive, engaging instruction doesn't have to mean investing hours and hours into the development of a full-scale Halo-type game. Creating an interactive, game-like learning experience can be done simply and easily with PowerPoint, a little imagination, and an audience response system. In this workshop, you will create an interactive game-like learning experience using game thinking and game elements such as storytelling, mystery, immediate feedback, and friendly competition. Learn how to craft a gamified instructional story based on learning science to engage, motivate and educate your learners.
NOTE: Please bring a laptop or a tablet with PowerPoint and a phone capable of texting so that you can both experience and design engaging game-like instruction.
Solving the Case of the Disengaged LearnerKarl Kapp
Grabbing and holding the attention of learners is getting harder and harder. In fact, the average person sends or receives more than 150 text messages a day. This means your learner's attention is not always focused on the content you have designed or are delivering to them. How do you design instruction that engages and motivates the learner? How do you make learning exciting, interesting, and memorable? The answer is to use evidence-based techniques to engage and motivate. This presentation will use an audience response system and a case study to demonstrate the key elements required to make learning engaging. You will learn five techniques for creating engaging and memorable learning events all while playing a game. Don't miss this energetic and fun presentation.
Games, Interactivity and Gamification for LearningKarl Kapp
This session introduces, defines, and describes the concept of gamification, games for learning and interactivity. Kapp will dissect critical elements of games and describe how they can be applied to the design and development of interactive learning. The presentation is based on solid research including peer-reviewed results from dozens of studies that offer insights into why game-based thinking and mechanics makes for vigorous learning tools. You’ll learn how to create engaging learning using game-based thinking by matching instructional content with the right game mechanics and game thinking; how to move beyond the theoretical considerations; and three methods for designing interactive learning based on concepts from games
Case of the Disengaged Learner: New Designs for Learning ConferenceKarl Kapp
In the academic world, the terms game, gamification and engagement are becoming hot topics. But is it hype or can “thinking like a game designer” actually enhance instruction and motivate learners? In this interactive, evidence-based session, participants will engage in an instructional event that demonstrates how to pull learners into the content and help them gain the knowledge required to be successful. Along the way, they will explore the definition of gamification, the research evidence supporting its use, and how gamification compares and contrasts with active learning. Come play a polling game and discover firsthand how this approach engages learners, increases learning, and leads to desired academic outcomes.
Quest for Learning Engagement: Adventure VersionsKarl Kapp
Engaging distant learners is a difficult task. They are constantly confronted with distractions and demands on their time. So how can we create instruction that pulls learners into the content and helps them gain the knowledge required to be successful? One method is to employ the concept of gamification. Explore the use of game elements to challenge learners, generate curiosity and create immediate feedback. Learn how to balance the elements of story, action and uncertainty to simulate thinking and engagement. In this interactive, evidence-based keynote you will experience first-hand how gamification motivates learners, increases retention and leads to desired learning outcomes.
TU204 - Beyond Gamification:Think Like a Game Designer to Create Engaging, Me...Karl Kapp
Thinking like a game designer is a great way to craft instruction that engages learners on multiple levels. Explore the use of game elements to challenge learners, generate curiosity, and create immediate feedback. Learn how to balance the elements of story, action, and uncertainty to simulate thinking and engagement. In this session you will experience firsthand how gamification motivates learners and increases retention.
Games, Gamification and Innovative Learning Techniques (Chinese Translation)Karl Kapp
Games, gamification and game-based learning have entered into the vocabulary of trainers, elearning developers and instructional designers around the global in the past few years. While the use of games for learning seems like a good match, questions arise. How should games be integrated into the curriculum? Can attitudes and behavior change result from playing a game? What elements of games can learning designers borrow from game designers? The answer to these questions can be found in the research on game-based learning.
This presentation includes many examples of using game-based learning for performance improvement and highlights how organizations have used games to achieve learning success.
In this Session, you will learn:
• How to apply game-based strategies to the presentation of learning content.
• Three principles for adding gamification and game-ideas to learning curriculums.
• Attributes of games that improve learning recall and application.
• How gamification impacts learning design and development.
Reaching the Engagement Horizon in Virtual WorldsKarl Kapp
Games, gamification and game-based learning have entered into the vocabulary of educators, eLearning developers and instructional designers from around the global in the past few years. Games have a seductive force and are seen as a great tool in creating engaging and interactive instruction. But are they effective for learning? What does the research tell us? We’ll explore some of the research around games, gamification and virtual worlds while creating links between research and virtual world actions and interactions.
The use of games for learning seems like a good match, but we can’t blindly take it for granted. Instead, we need to explore questions to make sure the intuitive link between games, gamification and virtual worlds reaches its full potential. In this keynote, we’ll answer questions like: How does one mix virtual world and game-based learning experiences? How should games be integrated into a curriculum? Can attitudes and behavior change result from playing a game in a virtual world? What elements of games can learning designers borrow from game designers? Can flying around as a superhero in a virtual world make you a nicer person? Discover evidence-based techniques for increasing online engagement, interactivity and, most importantly, learning.
This interactive presentation provides a learner quest. The audience members go on an adventure to find a missing professor and discover how to create engaging learning along the way.
This presentation discusses identifying the “Learning” Elements of Instructional, Learning-Focused Games. It will look at such elements as the best method for including a game into a corporate curriculum and game features that lead to impactful learning outcomes. It also discusses game elements that have been directly linked to learning.
Don't Think Like an Instructional Designer—Think Like a Game DesignerKarl Kapp
Game designers create immersive experiences that keep players engaged for hours. In games, players immediately take action, make meaningful decisions, and volunteer to spend more and more time finding treasures or defeating villains. Meanwhile many corporate e-learning experiences are less than engaging. What instructional designers need to do is steal ideas, techniques, and methodologies from game designers and incorporate those ideas into our instructional design.
Solving the Case of the Disengaged LearnerKarl Kapp
Engaging learners is a difficult task. They are constantly confronted with distractions and demands on their time. So how can we create instruction that pulls learners into the content and helps them gain the knowledge required to be successful? How do we grab and hold a learner's attention? How do we motivate them to engage with the content we are teaching? Participate in this session and engage in solving this mystery in this interactive, presentation.
Based on the bestselling book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, this session includes many examples of using game-elements, game-thinking, and gamification to engage and motivate learners.
And, yes, you will play a polling game in this session. Discover firsthand how research-based practices and game-thinking are used to engage learners, increase learning, and lead to performance driven results.
This presentation provides an interactive presentation modeling activities that can be used in the classroom to engage learners. The goal is to provide an overview of how games, game elements and game design can drive the learners toward greater understanding, retention and
learning through interactive classroom activities.
Come prepared to participate in interactive games and learn how to apply games and gamification to the instructional process!
Games, Interactivity and Gamification for LearningKarl Kapp
This session introduces, defines, and describes the concept of gamification, games for learning and interactivity. Kapp will dissect critical elements of games and describe how they can be applied to the design and development of interactive learning. The presentation is based on solid research including peer-reviewed results from dozens of studies that offer insights into why game-based thinking and mechanics makes for vigorous learning tools. You’ll learn how to create engaging learning using game-based thinking by matching instructional content with the right game mechanics and game thinking; how to move beyond the theoretical considerations; and three methods for designing interactive learning based on concepts from games
Case of the Disengaged Learner: New Designs for Learning ConferenceKarl Kapp
In the academic world, the terms game, gamification and engagement are becoming hot topics. But is it hype or can “thinking like a game designer” actually enhance instruction and motivate learners? In this interactive, evidence-based session, participants will engage in an instructional event that demonstrates how to pull learners into the content and help them gain the knowledge required to be successful. Along the way, they will explore the definition of gamification, the research evidence supporting its use, and how gamification compares and contrasts with active learning. Come play a polling game and discover firsthand how this approach engages learners, increases learning, and leads to desired academic outcomes.
Quest for Learning Engagement: Adventure VersionsKarl Kapp
Engaging distant learners is a difficult task. They are constantly confronted with distractions and demands on their time. So how can we create instruction that pulls learners into the content and helps them gain the knowledge required to be successful? One method is to employ the concept of gamification. Explore the use of game elements to challenge learners, generate curiosity and create immediate feedback. Learn how to balance the elements of story, action and uncertainty to simulate thinking and engagement. In this interactive, evidence-based keynote you will experience first-hand how gamification motivates learners, increases retention and leads to desired learning outcomes.
TU204 - Beyond Gamification:Think Like a Game Designer to Create Engaging, Me...Karl Kapp
Thinking like a game designer is a great way to craft instruction that engages learners on multiple levels. Explore the use of game elements to challenge learners, generate curiosity, and create immediate feedback. Learn how to balance the elements of story, action, and uncertainty to simulate thinking and engagement. In this session you will experience firsthand how gamification motivates learners and increases retention.
Games, Gamification and Innovative Learning Techniques (Chinese Translation)Karl Kapp
Games, gamification and game-based learning have entered into the vocabulary of trainers, elearning developers and instructional designers around the global in the past few years. While the use of games for learning seems like a good match, questions arise. How should games be integrated into the curriculum? Can attitudes and behavior change result from playing a game? What elements of games can learning designers borrow from game designers? The answer to these questions can be found in the research on game-based learning.
This presentation includes many examples of using game-based learning for performance improvement and highlights how organizations have used games to achieve learning success.
In this Session, you will learn:
• How to apply game-based strategies to the presentation of learning content.
• Three principles for adding gamification and game-ideas to learning curriculums.
• Attributes of games that improve learning recall and application.
• How gamification impacts learning design and development.
Reaching the Engagement Horizon in Virtual WorldsKarl Kapp
Games, gamification and game-based learning have entered into the vocabulary of educators, eLearning developers and instructional designers from around the global in the past few years. Games have a seductive force and are seen as a great tool in creating engaging and interactive instruction. But are they effective for learning? What does the research tell us? We’ll explore some of the research around games, gamification and virtual worlds while creating links between research and virtual world actions and interactions.
The use of games for learning seems like a good match, but we can’t blindly take it for granted. Instead, we need to explore questions to make sure the intuitive link between games, gamification and virtual worlds reaches its full potential. In this keynote, we’ll answer questions like: How does one mix virtual world and game-based learning experiences? How should games be integrated into a curriculum? Can attitudes and behavior change result from playing a game in a virtual world? What elements of games can learning designers borrow from game designers? Can flying around as a superhero in a virtual world make you a nicer person? Discover evidence-based techniques for increasing online engagement, interactivity and, most importantly, learning.
This interactive presentation provides a learner quest. The audience members go on an adventure to find a missing professor and discover how to create engaging learning along the way.
This presentation discusses identifying the “Learning” Elements of Instructional, Learning-Focused Games. It will look at such elements as the best method for including a game into a corporate curriculum and game features that lead to impactful learning outcomes. It also discusses game elements that have been directly linked to learning.
Don't Think Like an Instructional Designer—Think Like a Game DesignerKarl Kapp
Game designers create immersive experiences that keep players engaged for hours. In games, players immediately take action, make meaningful decisions, and volunteer to spend more and more time finding treasures or defeating villains. Meanwhile many corporate e-learning experiences are less than engaging. What instructional designers need to do is steal ideas, techniques, and methodologies from game designers and incorporate those ideas into our instructional design.
Solving the Case of the Disengaged LearnerKarl Kapp
Engaging learners is a difficult task. They are constantly confronted with distractions and demands on their time. So how can we create instruction that pulls learners into the content and helps them gain the knowledge required to be successful? How do we grab and hold a learner's attention? How do we motivate them to engage with the content we are teaching? Participate in this session and engage in solving this mystery in this interactive, presentation.
Based on the bestselling book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, this session includes many examples of using game-elements, game-thinking, and gamification to engage and motivate learners.
And, yes, you will play a polling game in this session. Discover firsthand how research-based practices and game-thinking are used to engage learners, increase learning, and lead to performance driven results.
This presentation provides an interactive presentation modeling activities that can be used in the classroom to engage learners. The goal is to provide an overview of how games, game elements and game design can drive the learners toward greater understanding, retention and
learning through interactive classroom activities.
Come prepared to participate in interactive games and learn how to apply games and gamification to the instructional process!
Play to Learn: Using Games and Gamification to Drive Learner Engagement and L...Karl Kapp
Games are powerful tools for crafting learning solutions that engage, motivate and reinforce key skills and techniques. Instructional designers, training managers and anyone tasked with creating learning events needs to seriously consider implementing games into their learning toolkit.
-Examine the required tradeoffs, discover how to add the game elements of challenge and story to training events and learn how the combination of fantasy and branching story techniques leads to real learning outcomes.
-Learn how an underlying competency model can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the learners’ game play by providing feedback to improve their performance in the field.
-Examine the games elements that are so compelling for learning and engagementLearn how to think like a game designer when approaching your learning content
-Discover the link between game elements and specific learning outcomes
Gamification Research: What the Numbers RevealKarl Kapp
Gamification is a hot topic, but where is the research to back up the use of gamification? Anyone interested in gamification for learning will be interested in seeing empirical results to be better informed about whether or not gamification is appropriate for their learning environment.
In this Slideshow, we look at material prepared for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, highlighting correlational results, retention, and memorization data, as well as usage data related to the gamification platform of Axonify.
These slides show correlation research related to gamification and highlights empirical results, linking gamification actions to retention and learning results. Data extracted from a database of over 250,000 users of a gamified platform is examined.
-How gamification impacts learner engagement
-How gamification provides learning retention results
-Correlations between learner engagement in a gamification platform and on-the-job performance
-How gamification statistics confirm the use of gamification for learning
TU107 - Zombie Salesapocalypse: Making an Epic 3-D Immersive Sales Video Game Karl Kapp
Video games seem to be the perfect medium for helping people learn. However, few companies are able to invest the time and resources to create a video game–type learning module. This session, in a case study format, covers the steps taken to conceptualize, develop, and deliver an immersive 3-D game to teach sales concepts. Examine the required tradeoffs, discover where to find relatively low-cost 3-D assets, and learn how the combination of fantasy and branching story techniques help make the game engaging. We'll also examine how an underlying model is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the learners' game play and provide constructive feedback to improve their performance in the field.
These slides accompany a workshop called "Play to Learn" presented at Learning Solutions 2015 conference. In the workshop participants complete an entire instructional game prototyping process.
This decidedly nonacademic presentation will present research findings and resources related to creating engaging instruction using the same techniques that are used in video games. The presentation will discuss why games and gamification are appropriate tools for presenting learning content and how using only a small part of games can lead to increased learning motivation. This presentation isn't about games, it is about using the same techniques and tricks that video games use to engage our students.
Tools of Engagement: Storytelling, Audience Response Systems, and Learning S...Karl Kapp
This breakout session will examine tools instructors can use to help motivate students, engage learners and bring the classroom to life using techniques that are backed by learning science research. The session will provide hands-on work with an audience response system and discuss digital, in-class storytelling techniques.
Games, Interactivity and Gamification for Learning Karl Kapp
Gamification gets a lot of ink, but do you know what the research says? Kapp walks you through the latest research into why game-based thinking and mechanics make for vigorous learning tools. He’ll dissect critical elements of games and describe how to apply them to design and development. You’ll learn to create engaging learning using game-based thinking, find out how to move beyond theoretical considerations, and be introduced to three methods for designing interactive game-based learning.
The Business Case for Game Based LearningKarl Kapp
Games, gamification, and game-based learning have entered into the vocabulary of trainers, e-Learning developers, and instructional designers in the past few years.
While many companies are beginning to explore ways to use games for learning, questions arise. How should games be integrated into the curriculum? Can attitudes and behavior change as a result of playing a game? What elements of games can learning designers borrow from game designers?
Creating engaging learning using game elements requires matching instructional content with the right game mechanics.
Beyond Gamification: Thinking Like a Game DesignerKarl Kapp
Thinking like a game designer is a great way to craft instruction that engages learners on multiple levels. Game designers make decisions based on action, interaction, and player motivation. When properly applied, game thinking provides learning designers with insights into how to create instruction that motivates both online and face-to-face learners. In this session, you will play a game to discover how game thinking works. You will participate in both a learning experience and a debriefing process highlighting several game-thinking elements such as the freedom to fail, the value of an action-oriented approach, and the motivational aspects of both story and competition
Interviewing With Swag; 5 Keys To Getting A Job In TechCharles Kunken
This is the conversation I wish I could have with every Amazon candidate before we start the interview. Interviewing is a separate set of skills than the job you are actually applying for. I made this ebook because I remember going through this myself and I know that what I know now can help you. I know that if I can get you these tips before we start an interview then both sides will have a much easier time. I hope this can bring you value!
Gamification should be thought of as a design sensibility and not merely a digital tool. It is a thought process and a methodology to think about engaging and motivating learners. While a result of gamification is often fun, the ultimate outcome behind developing a gamified approach is increased engagement and motivation.
In this webinar, explore several methods for applying game-thinking to your own online and classroom learning designs.
How to Use Gamification to Launch Digital Transformation in Higher Education Karl Kapp
Educause research indicates over 75% of institutions are currently pursuing Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives on their campus, with this number recently skyrocketing due to the immediate shift to remote learning forced by COVID-19.
While Digital Transformation may come in many forms, a core tenant of success is digital literacy and technology adoption. Institutions must prepare long-term strategies for both deploying innovative digital tools and motivating staff, faculty and students to learn, adopt and champion technology.
Research-proven techniques like Gamification will be a game changer for successful DX initiatives by recognizing, engaging and challenging team members to adopt tools.
Closing Session: The Power of Play and Games in These Uncertain TimesKarl Kapp
Play and games can be seen as merely an escape in times of uncertainty but, fortunately, games and play can do so much more. Games and play can help us and our students make sense of the world around us, can help keep us safe, help us to predict what might happen in the future and help us learn. Dive into the various ways in which games and play are rising to the forefront during this pandemic. Discover how you can use games and play can influence your outlook, keep you sharp, and, even, productive during these uncertain times.
Sales Enablement Through Games? You Bet And Bottom Line Results Prove It!Karl Kapp
Using games for practice sales skills, make role-plays fun and to reinforce sales skills? Yes, and here are some real-world examples that have gotten real-world results.
W308 - Start Thinking Like a Game Designer and Create Engaging, Immersive Ins...Karl Kapp
Session Description:
Game designers think about action, adventure, and engagement. In contrast, instructional designers tend to think about objectives, content, and quizzes. As a result, most games are fun, intriguing, and immersive, while most instruction tends to be predictable, boring, and perfunctory. Change your mindset from an instructional designer to a game designer and immediately begin creating engaging and effective instruction. Learn methods to help you think like a game designer and change stale training into an exciting and interesting experience for learners.
W207 - Creating a 3-D Behavioral Assessment Based Simulation or Game Karl Kapp
Session Description:
In a case study format, learn how a 3-D video game was developed to provide skills training. We will discuss how a behaviorally focused rubric was mapped into a 3-D branching game to provide real-time feedback to learners on their decision-making skills with different members of the client's in-house training teams. The tools, analytical measurements, and learning decisions will be discussed and generalized for application across a wide variety of scenario-based training situations. We'll see a demonstration of the game and the dashboard that is used to evaluate how their learners are performing in the game and how the tools in the game provide a coaching platform to improve performance.
Application on the Job:
Apply a behaviorally based rubric to the creation of an interactive branching conversation to measure scenario-based decision-making.
Leverage game elements to promote engagement, replayability, and learner interaction.
Discover how player analytics in the game are used to provide real-time feedback, remedial feedback, and coaching.
Create Tabletop Games to Foster Organizational LearningKarl Kapp
How can a simple game transform your learning efforts?
The CIA uses tabletop games to teach intelligence gathering, overcoming collection obstacles, and collaboration. The Harvard Business Review describes board games as a microcosm of business training that can help leaders and managers build the skills needed to operate effectively in the real world. In fact, board games have been used formally for teaching business concepts since at least the 1960s with the introduction of the MIT Beer Distribution game.
Many instructional designers, course developers, and training managers struggle to create engaging learning programs that get results. At the ATD LearnNow: Game Design workshop, you’ll learn how to design a tabletop game that can help transform your live instruction into a powerful, memorable learning experience.
Strengthening Quality Management with High Impact TrainingKarl Kapp
The slides from this webinar examine the evolution of training technology and outlined how implementing the right technology is helping companies support role-based training programs, making learning easier, and delivering training as part of quality processes – while ensuring job and audit readiness.
We shared training best practices and how technology can:
• Align training with corporate goals
• Improve quality management with modern learning techniques
• Enable micro- and in flow learning
• Simplify role-based training
• Measuring learning and training impact
About our presenters:
Karl Kapp, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
An expert in the convergence of learning, technology, and business, Karl Kapp was named to the 2017 "LinkedIn Top Voices in Education" list and has been named a top influencer in the training industry. Author of seven books including “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” and “Play to Learn,” Karl is a highly sought international, TEDx and industry speaker.
Kent Malmros, Veeva Systems
Kent has spent the majority of his career delivering technology-enabled training solutions to life sciences, holding leadership positions at industry leading companies such as AdMed, ClearPoint (Red Nucleus), UL EduNeering (UL), and now at Veeva Systems.
To watch the full webinar on demand, please register here: http://bitly.com/2Oh2TLc.
TH301 - Start Thinking Like a Game Designer: An Interactive Learning ExperienceKarl Kapp
In games, players immediately take action, make meaningful decisions, and volunteer to spend more and more time finding treasures or defeating villains. Meanwhile, many corporate e-learning experiences are less than engaging. What instructional designers need to do is steal ideas, techniques, and methodologies from game designers and incorporate those ideas into our instructional design. This session will provide a model that can be followed by instructional designers as well as research-based recommendations for helping instructional designers think more like game designers. The result will be interactive and engaging instruction. This will be an intermediate-level session, and some knowledge of instructional design will be helpful. Also, bring your smartphone and devices, as you will be interacting with the content and voting on answer choices while this interactive adventure unfolds.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Case of the Disengaged Learner: InSync Training Presentation
1. Twitter:@kkapp
Solving The Case of the
Disengaged Learner
By Karl M. Kapp
Professor , Bloomsburg University
Author: Gamification of Learning and Instruction
18. Learners not Engaged? Why?
Learning Eagle
October 24 2016See Section F for Coupons
Designers Called Into
Action!
By J. Jones
New Designs for Learning,
MD– It started out as just
another normal day. Larry the
Learner had just sat at his desk
to embark on a learning
journey. A journey that turned
horrific within only a few
moments.
The result is unnecessary
incident that could and should
have been avoided by having
the right instructional strategy
The news of disengagement was spreading…
21. He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly
strip convention.
Hello, Clueless…
22. Look I am going to ask you some
questions, the right answer gives you
a clue to engaging learning.
He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly
strip convention.
23. What do you and your detectives here have
to say about this?
24. Are Game-based Learning and Gamification are the same thing?
Are Games and Gamification are the same
thing?
30. He grabbed his typewriter and made some
notes to explain to me the difference between
the two types of gamification.
31. Structural
Gamification is
use of game-
elements to propel
a learner through
content with no
alteration or
changes to the
content.
Structural:
Points
Badges
Leaderboard
32. Content
Gamification use
of game thinking
to alter content
to make it more
game-like but
doesn’t turn the
content into a
game.
Content:
Challenge
Story
Characters
Missions
33. Ivan then grabbed his laptop to show me a
demonstration of the two types.
35. Gamification
The concept of gamification
Consists of many different
elements.
These elements can include:
• Story
• Character
• Mystery
• Curiosity
• Curve of Interest
• Surprise
• Chance
• Points
• Badges
Screen captures courtesy of MindTickle….
42. Welcome back detectives, let me
tell you about a robust educational
phenomenon called “Spaced
Retrieval”
Sometimes called “Distributed
Practice.”
43. Let me tell you about a study using a randomized
control group in a trial at ten sites in southeast
India with over 500 subjects.
Working Indian men (aged 35—55 years) with
impaired glucose tolerance were randomly
assigned to either a mobile phone messaging
intervention or standard care..
Ramachandran, A. et. al. Effectiveness of mobile phone messaging in prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle modification in men in
India: a prospective, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Early Online Publication, 11
September 2013 doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(13)70067-6
44. Ramachandran, A., et. al.., Effectiveness of mobile phone messaging in prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle modification in men in
India: a prospective, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Early Online Publication, 11
September 2013 doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(13)70067-6
“Avoid snacks while
watching TV; you may
overeat.”
“Use stairs instead
of an Elevator”
“Take stairs instead
of elevator.”
“Don’t eat while watching
TV.
45. Lowered risk of developing
Type 2 diabetes by 36%.
Ramachandran, A., et. al.., Effectiveness of mobile phone messaging in prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle modification in men in
India: a prospective, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Early Online Publication, 11
September 2013 doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(13)70067-6
46. Now let me tell you about this thing
called “Retrieval Practice.”
47. Require students to recall content
to enhance learning.
In other words, use testing to
reinforce learning—not just for
evaluation.
48. Combining Spaced Retrieval and
Retrieval Practice is really
powerful.
One study in the subject of Anatomy and
Physiology revealed retention benefits of
between 35% and 61% with average of
41%.
Dobson, J. L. (2013) Retrieval practice is an efficient method of enhancing the retention of anatomy
and physiology information Advances in Physiology Education 37: 184–191, 2013;
doi:10.1152/advan.00174.2012
49. Ivan had another question for me…I was the
one who was supposed to be ask’n questions….
Fact or Fishy? Learners remember
facts better when presented in a
bulleted list rather than presented in
a story?
50.
51.
52.
53.
54. Researchers have found that the
human brain has a natural affinity for
narrative construction.
Yep, People tend to remember facts
more accurately if they encounter
them in a story rather than in a list.
And they rate legal arguments as more
convincing when built into narrative
tales rather than on legal precedent.
Carey, B. (2007) this is Your Life (and How You Tell it). The
New York Times. Melanie Green
http://www.unc.edu/~mcgreen/research.html. Chapter 2
“The Gamification of Learning and Instruction.
55. Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2009). Reading Stories Activates Neural
Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences.Psychological Science, 20(8), 989–999.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02397.x
When a person reads about certain
activities in a story, the areas of the
brain associated with those activities
are activated.
The research found that different brain
regions track different aspects of a
story. If the character moved, the
corresponding region of the brain for
physical movement became active.
66. So what have we
learned?
2 types of gamification
Story for recall
pre-info, play game, debrief
Ideas for how to set up
scenarios
spaced practice,
deconstructing presentation
for cleints. distrbiuted
67. So far, so good. Follow the next clue on the
matchbook I found in my desk drawer….
68.
69. I arrived at the place on the matchbook, as
shady as a clump of oaks caught in an eclipse…
70. Enter Question TextHmm… what could this location and clue mean??? Tell
me. Does engaging instruction start with:
71.
72. Action draws in the learner and
encourages further engagement.
73. Too often instruction is about the content
and not about interacting or engaging with
the content.
74. Make the learner do something
Answer a question
Identify a procedure.
Make a decision.
Solve a mystery.
Confront a challenge.
Pick a team.
75. Time for a recap with the Boss…she looked a
little frantic…she wanted to know one more
thing.
76. I want to know one more
thing.
What game elements can
engage learners?
77. What game elements did we
encounter today that can
engage learners?
polling, team,
questions
Narrativie
story, characters characters
retrieval
case studies
Interactivity
Simulation
78. Great stuff, you folks really seemed to have
cracked the case as to what makes engaging
learning.
79. I thought my work was done but then….I
found another pack of matches on my way
home…
80. But we’ll have to leave that mystery for
another presentation….
88. Credits:
Detective Artwork Courtesy of Vanessa Bailey
Typewriter is MS Clip Art
Audience Response Devices by PollEverywhere
Demo of Gamification Software by MindTickle
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