A collection of examples of Educational Games and Gamification being used by Teachers around the world. These case studies show techniques used to apply game elements within an Educational context to re-frame a learning objective to seem more appealing and achievable.
Today I reviewed an exciting and fun way of delivering a unit on Ancient Civilizations. The main game elements used are Epic Meaning and Narrative. The student is placed in the role of Hero: ‘The world depends on you’. They must go back in time and research civilisations. The teacher Martha Bohnenberger is teaching […]
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This is a demonstration of many interactive features used in Adobe Captivate eLearning .
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I tried out an Articulate Storyline template from eLearning Brothers to create a quiz on the topic of Social Media. There were dozens of layers to sort through and although it was not hard to add my own content, it took a really long time and was quite repetitive. The sort of thing I would
Another great game from Jane McGonigal. So many ideas here to steal! Log in and start playing … I really like the positive vs shadow columns. It really gets group discussion going. In class I would do this with sticky notes. “Welcome to the year 2026, where strange and surprising things are happening .Anyone can
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In 2010, the World Bank sponsored a gamification project based in South Africa and involved people from 150 other countries. The link above to the lessons learned discussion offers many great ideas and observations that gamification designers can use. EVOKE was developed by the World Bank Institute, the learning and knowledge arm of the World Bank
Developers in Johannesburg have created Fundasmart Virtual Learning Labs. They provide virtual space for students to conduct experiments which cut costs on perishable laboratory material like chemical materials. They can share virtual simulations and resources and make these available to many users at any time. The labs are connected to a complete virtual learning environment
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Virtual Worlds are a novel approach to education. Afri-one was the winning team from the eLearning Africa Hackathon in 2015. The members, from Congo, Kenya, and Madagascar, had an idea to create a virtual world that represents each of their cultures. Basic daily routines, rituals, and greetings would introduce children to unique features of many
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Ubongo, based in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania, create an edu-cartoon watched by over 1.4 million Tanzanians on free to air national television. Children watching the Saturday morning shows are invited to interact through SMS on basic mobile phones. The talking / rapping Giraffe will phone the child and ask a series of maths questions. If
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This week our family tried out Connected Camps, a free Minecraft Server set up and moderated by Teachers. I was surprised it actually was free! We looked at the schedule and realised we would have to be up early to fit in with US Pacific Time. My son was sleeping but I figured he wouldn’t
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‘NGA’s gamification software provides a customizable Web interface for displaying badges and a configurable rules engine that translates actions performed by users into awards, said Ray Bauer, an NGA information technology innovation lead.’ Gamification-server provides a framework for providing awards/points to users or teams and can be operated either standalone or integrated with other web-based
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