Game Based Learning Research

This is the game I mentioned in my "Looking at Shivtr" thread. You can download the game from there (it's free) and it is also availible on Steam if you prefer that platform.

List of entries with additional links in EDUCATION.

ClassBadges is a new service that aims to help teachers and students track their achievements big and small. Using ClassBadges teachers create goals for their students. When students reach their goals teachers assign a badge to them to keep in their student profiles.

For Business but applicable to education. After all we are selling. #gamemooc

Does show how emotion is part of gaming.

#gamemooc

"A new way to manage classroom instruction is slowly creeping into the world of education: " Gamification ". Gamifying simply means turning the class content and the way students learn into a game with a rewards system, quests, experience levels, and healthy competition." This page is more useful for K-12 educators, but there are a LOT of resources that will still be helpful for post-secondary educators as well. This is more of a list of resources and definitions than any kind of critical discussion or a list of practical suggestions, but it's still very useful.

Gabe Zicherman, nice 44 slide show from his corporation.

Ah really a good article on badges

JZapper has some good information for us on Learning in Corporate Space

Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.

All you have to do is read our white paper "Open Badges: Portable Rewards for Learner Achievements" and you can claim your exclusive MyKnowledgeMap Open Badge Awareness badge.

Badges What is a badge? A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. Badges can be used to represent achievements, communicate successes, set goals, and motivate behaviors. They can support learning that happens in new ways and new spaces beyond the traditional classroom.

Ice breakers, may not all work with college.

This is fantastic if you only can watch one video this should be it.

Alex Reeve's great site for practical guide.

This is a nice site where they did look at emotions in a game, this isn't seriously scientific but it does show what players get out of games.