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How to Use Gamification to Promote Active Learning in the Changed Workplace Dynamics

In this article, I outline how L&D professionals can use Gamification to drive active learning in the workplace to address this challenge. Active learning strategies like gamification add the much needed "Entertainment" value, to an otherwise lackluster learning experience.

gamificationDave EngOctober 17, 2022Gamification, active learning, changed workplace, learning experience, newsComment

A Brief History of Role-Playing Games

The basic characteristics, rules and mechanisms of D&D went on to inform many of the games and systems mentioned below. In 1986, Steve Jackson Games published GURPS, which was a system developed to allow players to play in whatever setting they chose, while utilising the same basic rules and mechanisms.

gamesDave EngJuly 19, 2022Game-based learning, learning games, effective learning, learning experience, newsComment

The six levers of games-based learning: what makes learning games effective?

That games are effective learning tools has been shown again and again, with great clusters of evidence collected by Karl Kapp and Jane McGonigal, among many others. My favourite framing of the question is: what do games do, to help people engage, learn and get more from the experience? As part of my work using games to design and facilitate learning experiences, I've built a framework to answer that question.