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Surprise! How Using Uncertainty in Serious Games Improves Learning
For many of us, the most memorable films, TV shows and books are those that include unexpected plot twists and surprising events. The film Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis’ psychologist character realizes that he is actually one of the dead … Continue reading
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Serious Games on Mobile – Military case studies
What an eighteen months it has been for mobile learning. For our customers in the Defence sector, their concerns used to focus upon LMS and browser delivery of immersive training and serious games (still do!). That, and flexibility and speed … Continue reading
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Instructional Design Ideas: Changing Behaviours with the Hero’s Journey
Changing Attitudes
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Create a Game in Just 10 Days!
It is possible and I’m going to show you how anyone can do it. Thinking Worlds is a powerful, rapid game creation tool. But do you know how to use it? Last month we contacted some of our more experienced … Continue reading
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How Long Does It Take To Build A Sim?
How long does it take to develop a simulation or virtual training experience? This is a question constantly asked by companies, designers and educators that are interested in building a 3D immersive simulation. At Caspian Learning, we have developed and … Continue reading
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How Immersive Sim’s improve learning performance
Immersive Simulation Improves Learning View more presentations from Caspianchris
Can You Save Europe? – A Mobile App Created with Thinking Worlds
A cash-strapped student studying in the North East of England has created and published a humorous mobile app for iPad and iPhone that could prevent the ‘Euro Destruction’. The quirky app is the first of its kind created by a … Continue reading
Next generation teaching – students building science games for learning
Some examples of the gameplay built by Dr Carl Pennypacker and his classes of K12 girls.
Posted in Rapid Sims
Using virtual reality to recover from a cerebro-vascular accident
Innovative use of human to 3D avatar relationship to improve medical outcomes.
Posted in Case Studies, Research, Technology News
Computer games can take lessons to next level
Hats off to Thinking Worlds experts Learnit3d. Great write up of their work in the Time Educational Supplement: Teachers might view the Xbox and online roleplay games as distractions from study, but new research suggests that a focus on games … Continue reading
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