Video game teaches cow-handling practices

Video game teaches cow-handling practices

By Martha Blum

October 19, 2023

Summary

A video game will soon be available to help dairymen train employees how to properly handle cows in their operations.

"We hired a local video game programming company in Madison that specializes in educational video games," she explained.

Van Os talked about the main learning objectives of the game.

At the end of each level of the game, players get a score and if they caused too much cow stress, they fail the level and have to try again.

After completing all eight levels of the game, the game player receives a certificate of completion.

A video game provides active rather than passive learning.

"Time is a barrier to training on farms so I would like for average game completion to be less than 30 minutes," Van Os said.

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