It's had a great run, but two things players complain about. 1) Expensive compared to other free games 2) It's just not fun anymore

Interesting article about games and values. In the middle, the author suggests that for game designers, it is important to get people who aren't like them to play the game. This would make for a more inclusive game.

This website offers numerous serious games that claim to offer serious training for various businesses.

Schell's talk ends with a simple but important question. How can we design games to not only motivate us in life but to help us be better people?

Choice is supposed to create a sense of autonomy and freedom. In turn, this autonomy facilitates motivation. But Schwartz questions whether choice can really motivate us because it actually increases cognitive load, expectations and too much choice actually frustrates us. So perhaps there is a 'ZOC' (Zone of Optimal Choices) to create optimal motivation.

An interesting talk about how chance favors the connected mind. How do we create such spaces in the classroom, school or perhaps out of formal learning environments?

Thanks for sharing Connie,
I thought that such scanning technology was readily available. But the difference is that with Quick Key, it's made mobile and the teacher can scan it immediately. WIth so much demand for it, I'm wondering whether many teachers still use pen and paper MCQs rather than an online tool like Google forms? Thanks!

This author believes that games can be the basis of learning and explores various ways that games promote thinking and motivation.

Coach John Wooden talks about motivating and engaging his students and players. In giving students autonomy and control over their learning, it is sometimes important to focus on small details too. This could be as simple as being punctual, but it goes a long way in building self-discipline.

Two important points that jumped up for me while watching this video: 1) Have you ever seen a baby who's not motivated to learn? 2) Imagine how motivated you'd be if you adopted a 'growth' mindset where every activity is a learning endeavor.

This resource was shared during a web session with HGSE alum Bharat. It's a great resource if you're designing games.

An interesting article about how games like WoW increase intrinsic motivation by allowing modifications to the game (or mods). The participatory culture also promotes a sense of collaboration and service to other players, hence increasing the sense of value-addedness to the activity.

An interesting talk which draws on Bruner's and Hattie's work to uncover what motivates students.

In this talk, Csikzentmihalyi goes further than describing flow as an important experience for intrinsic motivation. Is happiness a state of flow too? It is an interesting perspective though I'm sure it's not the only perspective.

This is a great clip summarizing the main points of Dan Pink's 'Drive'. It challenges some myths we have about what motivates us and provides some interesting experiments to back up the conclusions.