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Table Top Games for Online Learning Webinar

Table Top Games for Online Learning Webinar

Games are powerful platforms for teaching, learning, training, and education. Table top games are especially powerful for engaging students in tangible and physical game worlds that they can see, and interact with, live and in-person. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has made playing table games and board games with our students a challenging proposition. However, there are FREE online versions of some of the most popular table top games that you can use for teaching and learning online!

Dave EngOctober 7, 2020Comment

A Game a Day: Fun and Dynamic Synchronous Online Learning

A Game a Day: Fun and Dynamic Synchronous Online Learning

I was in the middle of conducting a research study, examining my own teaching of implementing fun and play into learning, when COVID-19 hit, and we were forced to transition from face-to-face courses to fully online classes.

synchronous, onlineDave EngOctober 7, 2020synchronous, online, learningComment

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Let's game the way to more diverse, inclusive and productive teams

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Let's game the way to more diverse, inclusive and productive teams

Games and simulations are a great way to achieve diversity & inclusion in corporations.

diversity, inclusionDave EngOctober 6, 2020diversity, inclusionComment

Thinking about Design with Neurodiversity in Mind

Thinking about Design with Neurodiversity in Mind

The process of designing applications and software that are usable by a wide range of people is a tricky task itself extra consideration must be taken when looking to implement design decisions that would be appropriate for a neurodiverse audience.

NeurodiversityDave EngOctober 5, 2020game design, NeurodiversityComment

Video Games Against Violence: How One Nonprofit is Creating Change

Video Games Against Violence: How One Nonprofit is Creating Change

Amid the Play NYC game convention, Drew Crecente shares the work his organization is doing to prevent abusive behavior through prosocial games.

video games, violence, changeDave EngOctober 3, 2020video games, violence, changeComment

PDT Global’s Inclusion Escape Room Experience

PDT Global’s Inclusion Escape Room Experience

Well it all began with a company away day, which as a means to help the company understand the potential of digital learning, I created an escape room activity, where participants would experience stats, facts and digital learning interactions themselves whilst escaping the room.

escape roomDave EngOctober 2, 2020escape roomComment

People Aren’t Reading or Watching Movies. They’re Gaming.

People Aren’t Reading or Watching Movies. They’re Gaming.

Since April, every week has ended with U.S. box office receipts down at least 97 percent and gaming revenue up by more than 50 percent, compared with the same week the year before.

gamesDave EngOctober 1, 2020gamesComment

How Lockdown Has Revealed the Importance of Games at Home

How Lockdown Has Revealed the Importance of Games at Home

The recent global pandemic has caused a lot of problems worldwide, with many establishments forced to close, things like concerts being cancelled, and people largely confined to their homes. This can be a lonely and worrying time for a lot of people, and it is important to make sure you come up with ways of keeping busy and keeping your mind active as much as possible, and this is something to consider.

pandemic, lock down, gamesDave EngSeptember 30, 2020lock down, games-based learning, social, contributed article, mindComment

A Tale of Dungeons & Dragons and the Origins of the Game Platform

A Tale of Dungeons & Dragons and the Origins of the Game Platform

This essay narrows the gap between analog1 and digital games by connecting Dungeons and Dragons or D&D to the origins of the video game industry.

dungeons & dragonsDave EngSeptember 30, 2020dungeons and dragonsComment

Playing the Nazis: Political Implications in Analog Wargames

Playing the Nazis: Political Implications in Analog Wargames

European game designers produced some successful war-related games, such as Albert Lamorisse's La Conquête du monde, known in the English speaking-world as Risk, but this game conveys quite an abstract representation of warfare, while the great novelty offered by American wargames was precisely their so-called "Realism".

history, analog, wargamesDave EngSeptember 29, 2020history, analog, wargamesComment

Table Talk: Games as Spaces of Translation

Table Talk: Games as Spaces of Translation

In business education, games often form a means of translating business processes or procedures into competitive play, offering an engaging mechanism for learning about strategy, recruitment, sustainability, resource and project management, or simply the day to day challenges of pursuing profitability.

tabletopDave EngSeptember 28, 2020table top, spaces, translationComment

How the Game of Dominoes Is Building a Close Family From a Social Distance

How the Game of Dominoes Is Building a Close Family From a Social Distance

In the Manhattan neighborhood of East Harlem, playing dominoes has shaped the lives of generations of men who, during the pandemic, are now getting to know the table - and each other - in new ways.

board games, family, pandemicDave EngSeptember 27, 2020dominoes, family, board games, social distanceComment

Video games helping you cope? Learn how to create your own.

Video games helping you cope? Learn how to create your own.

If that's just not doing it for you anymore, why not kick it up a notch and become the architect of someone else's escape by creating your very own video game? It sounds complicated, but this $40 training will walk you through how to get started.

video games, copeDave EngSeptember 26, 2020video games, copeComment

The difference between video game AI and real AI

The difference between video game AI and real AI

Among the most common misconceptions surrounding machine learning technology is the idea that video games dating back to the 1970s and 1980s had built-in "Artificial intelligence" capable of interacting with a human user.

video games, AIDave EngSeptember 25, 2020video games, AIComment

What Games Can Do For Your Life

What Games Can Do For Your Life

Anyone who loves to play games should have some sense already of what they can do for you, but it is often going to be useful to have a look at it in some detail anyway. That way, you can be sure that you are going to get as much out of them as possible. It is also just interesting to know about what games can do to make your life better, especially in a world where they are often treated as unimportant or excessive. Let’s look into this now in some detail and see what games can be really good for.

games, lifeDave EngSeptember 24, 2020simulations, mental connections, contributed article, stress, gamesComment

Five Ways To Gamify Employee Assessments

Five Ways To Gamify Employee Assessments

Some of the biggest challenges I notice in conventional workplace training programs include earning employee engagement and increasing knowledge retention.

gamify, employeesDave EngSeptember 24, 2020gamify, employee, assessmentsComment

Gamification shapes engineering digital skills?

Gamification shapes engineering digital skills?

Mark Chillingworth is a CIO and CTO journalist, ghost writer, moderator and advisor with over 11 years experience. From 2010 to 2016 he was Editor in Chief of the award-winning CIO UK. In 2011 he created the CIO 100, an annual transformation power list of the UK’s most influential CIOs and launched the UK’s first CIO Podcast in 2016.

engineering, gamificationDave EngSeptember 23, 2020engineering, gamificationComment

This video game is going to help you learn Japanese

This video game is going to help you learn Japanese

The game is still under development and as per the game website, is slated to launch on PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch next year.

language learning, gamesDave EngSeptember 22, 2020language learning, game, japanComment

The Fine Line in Game Based Learning

The Fine Line in Game Based Learning

The Fine Line in Game Based Learning Games can be powerful learning experiences, as long as adaptive learning doesn't put an algorithm, rather than the student, in the driver's seat.

games-based learningDave EngSeptember 21, 2020games based learningComment