Please share your ideas, tangible results, games and gamfication efforts
Game Based Learning
for educators and gamers
Please share your ideas, tangible results, games and gamfication efforts
Two sessions of interest:
game-based learning:
Upping your Game – Best Practices in Using Game-Based Learning
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594684/
Implementing Game Dynamics in Moodle
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10693434/
at the
Academy of distinguished teachers, Innovation
University of Minnesota, McNamara Alumni Center – Twin Cities Campus. April 8, 2015
Full program available here: https://guidebook.com/g/adt/
more details in the IMS blog
blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/04/08/academy-of-distinguished-teachers/
Constance Steinkuehler
Co-Director, Associate Professor, Education, Games Learning Society
330 N. Orchard Street
Madison WI 53715
Room 2115C
steinkuehler@wisc.edu
http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/
Recommendations for games and gaming at LRS
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/03/19/recommendations-for-games-and-gaming-at-lrs/
Gaming and Gamification in academic and library settings (paper)
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/files/2015/03/Gaming-and-Gamification-in-academic-and-library-settings-final-draft-1digudu.pdf
In Bulgaria the educational process is still quite individual and doesn’t encourage teamwork and collaborative learning enough. This is something we could work out through games.
Do the Universities use the credit system as games do with unlocking levels?
Found on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/DGBL/
http://fold.it/portal/
Barry Kudrowitz, U of MN
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/11/19/harnessing-the-power-of-play/
Shaun Iles: shaun.iles@mohawkcollege.ca and Brian Gould: brian.gould@mohawkcollege.ca
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/09/04/gamification-its-easier-than-you-think/
From: Ewing, M Keith
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 9:09 AM
To: O’Dea, Mary
Cc: Miltenoff, Plamen
Subject: gaming in learning
Here’s what could be the most interesting approach to applying gaming to learning that I’ve seen– https://www.gradecraft.com/
And it appears to be strongly supported by research– http://blog.gradecraft.com/research/
keith
Keith Ewing
Professor, Library Systems & Digital Projects