Old Man Yells at Gamified Learning
Sure, games are fun. But #gamification often falls short of its promises and fails to produce the learning goals we want. #learningdesign
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell...
Sure, games are fun. But #gamification often falls short of its promises and fails to produce the learning goals we want. #learningdesign
When we ask “why offer Mozilla Open Badges in education?”, the answer often comes back “to motivate students”. When we ask “how exactly does that...
2011 brought us the buzzword craze of “gamification” in education, or the quest to make learning online more like a video game. Inspired by...
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). A popular reason for exploring gamification in online learning is because we...