Before the story went to press, I was asked by The Sun's gaming editor - Lee Price - if I would provide a set of questions to help readers determine if they had a possible gaming addiction. I've written a number of articles for The Sun over the years and have always been happy to contribute to education concerning gaming issues.
Read MoreNFTs have been making the headlines recently for all sorts of reasons. From amateur creators making a great income from creating their own NFTs through to cautionary tales like that of the Spice DOA ill-fated attempt to purchase the rights to Dune, when in fact, they had paid more than 20 times over the estimate for a copy of a book which was freely available and wouldn’t give them any rights to the source material.
Read MoreA new research project at Rowan University's Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems aims to teach students real-world geotechnical engineering concepts and attract diverse candidates to the field using interactive video games.
Read MoreAre you wondering why your website visitors don't seem to convert into subscribers and paying customers? Well, you may need to find more exciting ways to interact with your audience, and that's where gamification comes into the picture.
Read MoreApplying gamification for college students can bring the same results. The implementation of personalized goal-sets also makes learning more exciting for students. Even college students who didn't use gamification at school will find it pally thanks to video games. Turning education into a game will make more students interested in excel.
Read MoreOut of all the gaming segments, the mobile gaming segment has grown at a tremendous rate. Another finding of the report suggested that before the lockdown, the gaming minutes was 151 which has now extended to 218 minutes indicating a strong incline towards gaming.
Read MoreTwo big challenges remain: ensuring that families with "Non-traditional" work schedules are included, and significantly increasing public investment in facilities to allow preschools to expand well beyond church basements and providers' homes.
Read MoreIn order to teach school-age children the basics of cybersecurity, two Kennesaw State University professors are collaborating on a method to deliver lessons where K-12 students spend most of their time: playing video games.
Read MoreSome tried to continue to carry the torch, and still do, but many fell to the side - either jumping to the next exciting technology in the hype cycle, or moving on to other interests naturally. In 2021, what is the real truth of gamification now? Well, let's see if I can't get some discussion going by offering a few of my truths! The Ugly The worst thing about gamification in 2021, is that people still don't understand what it actually is.
Read MoreThe first video game I taught with this year is The Bad News Game. The game chooses simple topics that most of us are too familiar with to illustrate the patterns followed by many propagandists. Any time you try to act morally, the game will stop you and make you act like a troll.
Read MoreGamification in this context refers to the application of games in a non-game context. Gamification has large potential but inherently, the application of gamification has been limited to typical trivial elements of game playing like creating scorecards, leaderboards, avatars, and badges.
Read MoreThe sudden and seemingly relentless introduction of all sorts of learning games and gamification leads to the inevitable question: "Do games and gamification used within a corporate environment lead to better learning and, ultimately, better organizational performance?".
Read MoreYounger people play games - they're not relevant for audiences 50 and older. Branded games are more effective with the under 55s. What has consistently surprised us, when we see branded games in a marketing strategy, is which age group engages the most.
Read MoreAre our South African universities equipped to engage with and stimulate these digitally immersed learners? Wits University's Emeritus Professor Barry Dwolatzky, who serves on the Computer Science Advisory Board of University of the People, a tuition-free, online university, says that conventional education models are starting to become superfluous in our modern age as more learners go online.
Read MoreThe game design process started with Semis, 23, during his correctional facility sentence in 2019.There, he laid down The Run Around's foundational elements in collaboration with iThrive, a nonprofit games foundation with roots in Newton.
Read MoreIf you look at Flow or my Engagement Channel stuff, you will see that to enter flow and be truly engaged, the challenge of whatever you are doing should match or slightly exceed your current skill level.
Read MoreRew Denning, an associate professor, notes that the increasing sophistication of history-based titles and the growing number of scholars who grew up on video games are softening higher education's distrust of the activity; a University of Tennessee course centers on the "Red Dead Redemption" series, wherein players explore turn-of-the-century America.
Read MoreAre our South African universities equipped to engage with and stimulate these digitally immersed learners? Wits University's Emeritus Professor Barry Dwolatzky, who serves on the Computer Science Advisory Board of University of the People, a tuition-free, online university, says that conventional education models are starting to become superfluous in our modern age as more learners go online.
Read MoreAnyone who has played the game knows that crossing a river in the wrong place at the wrong time or other poor decisions along the trail can end the game. What is new, Thomas said, is applying those concepts of in-person game-based learning for animal disease preparedness in a digital game that can be played by anyone as often as participants want.
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