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...
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...
Gamification, the use of game elements in non-game contexts, is increasingly being implemented in both student and organizational learning initiatives. Many of these efforts are atheoretical, meaning that the teachers using them don’t necessarily...
On April 15 at 1PM EDT, I will be giving a webinar on gamification for the Human Capital Institute. If you’re interested in what science says about how gamification and videogames can improve HR...