Educational games are games designed to help players learn about a specific subject or help them to practice specific skills. Educational games for adults can be made to complement programmes of professional training or higher education.
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As technology reshapes the way we live and work, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills have become indispensable. Students today must understand core STEM concepts and remain motivated to explore them further. However, some of these concepts can be difficult for kids to fully grasp, which is why many institutions now encourage game-based learning.
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"The term originated as a derogatory way to make fun of those hipster games where you don't shoot, but it caught on," explains Jordi de Paco, a video game developer at the production company Deconstructeam.
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University of Kentucky College of Education faculty are part of a team designing artificial intelligence-based games to reach students learning mathematics. "The drive to learn can quickly be replaced with frustration and exhaustion when mathematics lessons do not click for students."
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Anyone who has actually played a simulator game understood the appeal of games in which they can behave recklessly with no consequences. For many people, the appeal of simulator games lies largely in the control that they have - depending on the type of game, most elements are customisable, from the way your on-screen avatar looks to the surroundings in the background of the action.
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Our team developed the game to provide students with insights into why international trade occurs. A successful classroom game begins well before students enter the room.
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Virtual reality gamers who finished a given game faster than their fellow gamers also have higher levels of general intelligence and processing capacity. The results also indicate that virtual reality games can be useful supplementary human resource management tools in companies for predicting the job performance of an applicant.
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Now a team from Carnegie Mellon University has devised a way to aid reinforcement learning algorithms learn much faster by combining them with a language model that can read instruction manuals, according to a report published on Friday by Singularity Hub.
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Poor game design, especially among competitive games, is causing a severe wave of toxicity within the gaming community.
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Mindfulness, on the other hand, involves climbing out of the stream of experiences and on to the riverbank, where we can sit beside the stream and observe our sensations, thoughts and emotions flow by, moment to moment.
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McCall asks history instructors to embrace video games because they provide an opportunity to discuss and debate the game version of history. Implicit in many historical video games is a particular vision of history, a history of power struggles and fights for domination.
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Many first-year students are navigating enormous life changes, and the transition to university is associated with stress, shock, and sometimes withdrawal from courses or university.
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Local academic researchers and industry partners are developing new training options to fill the expected gaps-integrating gaming and virtual reality to appeal to a younger generation of manufacturing professionals.
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For BBVA, recently named Europe's most sustainable bank by S&P for a third consecutive year, gamification is an extremely important element of its training system design - as it helps to "Cement employee motivation and engagement and therefore commitment to development", says Pilar Concejo, BBVA's Global Head of Learning.
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WHO has launched a pilot introduction of the game-based learning platform Immune Patrol in Armenia to educate 10- to 12-year-old students about infectious diseases, the immune system, outbreaks and vaccines.
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Employing ‘Serious Gaming’ to Explore Challenges and Solutions in the Gulf of Mexico
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While certain accessibility features are crucial for me to play games, some options may serve no purpose or may not be enough for other players. Inclusive design is the concept of game development that explores opening games to disabled players without extensive menus.
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From finance to construction and healthcare, custom impact games have helped train people in a broad range of industries in ways that are fun, engaging, and which help people better retain the information that they've learned.
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Video games such as Minecraft Education can be used to deliver the curriculum in an engaging authentic way. Video games are increasingly coming into the classroom as researchers look into how they can be used to make learning engaging.
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Across Australia, tens of thousands of parents are experiencing the same frustrations when trying to regulate their teenage children's screen time, according to Macquarie University psychologist associate professor Dr Wayne Warburton, who specialises in problem gaming.
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