technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
In the long tradition of postmortems for video game releases within the game development community, I decided to write up a brief one for the game-based assessment (GBA) conference I hosted on August 22-23,...
I am very pleased to announce the conclusion of a project that took many years from conceptualization to physical copy on the shelves: the official release of the Cambridge Handbook of Technology and Employee...
From my research on gamification, one of the major conclusions that I’ve come to is that gamification must be implemented for a reason. Blindly throwing game elements into a course without carefully considering why you’re...
One of the most common forms of gamification is the use of leaderboards. Despite their bad press, leaderboards are commonly used to direct people to achieve specific target goals while motivating them via competition....
As I described in my last post, gamification is often misused and abused, applied in ways and in situations where it is unlikely to do much good. When we deploy new learning technologies, the ultimate goal...
When any new technology is introduced purported to “revolutionize teaching,” people tend to get skeptical. Teaching has been the target of revolution many times, yet the best teaching now tends to resemble the best...