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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In the wake of the Games for Change Africa festival, which took place towards the end of2022, it's becoming increasingly clear that gaming - and impact gaming in particular - has the potential to be a significant force for good across the African continent.
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When you sign up to play roulette at an online casino, you should anticipate getting greater promotional offers than at a live gambling location because the house has a much smaller overhead cost to run the operation.
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A conference about games isn't the first place you'd expect to find a nursing school employee, but Peery wasn't there to talk about nursing students playing first-person shooter games or the latest zany Mario Brothers adventure.
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A new scientific study suggests that video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children.
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Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are building a serious video game to help cities prepare for, prevent, and respond to cyberattacks.
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Sarah Stang hopes to use her new role as Assistant Professor with Brock University's Centre for Digital Humanities to help equip the next generation of game designers with the knowledge they need to make gaming more diverse.
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To help X-ers become better quitters, Teller has come up with a unique mental model that has been woven into the fabric of X: monkeys and pedestals. It's one of the best tools for helping you figure out when to quit closer to on time.
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The 1988 game 'Life & Death', in which players had to assume the role of a surgeon and diagnose and treat various medical conditions using a combination of text-based commands and simple graphics, is considered one of the earliest medical video games.
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Leaderboard-equipped assessments: Quizzes are a common way for learning platforms to evaluate user understanding, so why not include a leaderboard to give users a competitive edge? Gamified learning approaches: Consider your staff's learning and career prospects as "Stages" that must become completed.
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Within this, female gamers represent 48 per cent of the global mobile gaming market - which mirrors the population at large, with 21 per cent of adult mobile gamers being women aged 36 yrs+.
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Video games tend to offer escapism by exploring the unimaginable; they allow gamers to tune out for a few hours by getting in the shoes of super-soldiers, the spurred boots of western rustlers or even stray household pets while living out their stories across sci-fi dystopias, vast fantasy worlds or the deep expanses of space.
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Although game-based learning is fun, it's important to know there is a difference between gaming for fun and game-based learning. Research has shown that game-based learning leads to improved learning outcomes.
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Creative director Nick Lang notes the lack of attention toward autistic gamers is surprising considering that gaming can be a "Huge resource and source of comfort" for people on the spectrum.
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Rock Your Watershed, an online game from the Water Rocks! youth water quality and conservation outreach and education program at Iowa State University, is widely recognized for giving players a fun and educational opportunity to see how land use decisions that balance conservation and profitability directly affect downstream water quality.
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