Games and gamification have been around for hundreds of years. Last week I had the pleasure of participating as a panelist to discuss common barriers to games and gamification in organizational learning at DevLearn 2017 in Las Vegas. I shared the floor with Marci Morford and Nick Floro who are well known practitioners of gamified learning […]
Gamification is a hot topic in the L&D industry today. To be honest, I think I always used gamification before it got its name. From early childhood we learned to love games because they are fun, they have rules and they are challenging. In other words, games are everything school is not. As an […]
I’m super excited about this post because it’s about a powerful authoring tool named Quizlet. First, let me explain my excitement for this awesome online FREE elearning tool. The year was 1989 and I had just arrived in Miami, FL from Venezuela without any knowledge of the English language. I joined the school system and learned […]
Elearning Heroes Challenge #71 was all about teaching math concepts with elearning. My submission was a military-inspired game where learners solve math problems and blow stuff up. Nothing wrong with “safe” mortar training and engaging learners by testing basic math skills. For this sample I used a combination of vector drawings built with Adobe Illustrator […]
Once again, I had the pleasure of partaking in this week’s ELearning Heroes Challenge which was to create an elearning experience for football training. For my global friends I mean American Football and since the Super Bowl was yesterday, this was an exciting sample to build. The concept I came up with was very simple […]
Family Feud is a very popular game and TV show. I love the game and it was the inspiration for this elearning version developed in Articulate Storyline2 that can be applied to various learning scenarios. In this version, I chose to make it an individual challenge in which the learner has 10 seconds to answer correctly […]
My fondest memories as a kid had to do with three things: Play, play and more play! Learning games have been around for many years but, now we have the capability of creating games with elearning authoring software such as Articulate Storyline. This post is about the development of a game sample named Cowboy Bomber, an […]
