Position: Consultant
Company: Bloomsburg University
Event Description
This decidedly unacademic presentation provides a broad scientific overview of what we know from research about the effectiveness today’s technology for changing learner behaviors through games.
We will discuss the use of 3D avatars to change learner behaviors; we will consider how playing a video game changes a person’s behavior and how storytelling helps learners memorize facts. We’ll answer questions like: Are two avatars better in an e-learning module than one? Does the appearance of an avatar impact the person when they’ve finished working with the avatar? Do serious games have to be entertaining to be educational?
This engaging, exciting session shows you how to use the existing research literature in your own design and delivery of online learning.
You will be provided with tips and techniques for matching research findings to your own e-learning design. We’ll move the concepts from research-to-practice. Discover how research-based practices really fit in with today's fast-paced need for quick, effective instruction online instruction.
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Position: Consultant
Company: Bloomsburg University
Biography
Karl Kapp is a consultant, writer and professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA and is a well know blogger and writer on the convergence of learning and technology.
He also frequently writes and presents for ASTD and T&D magazine. Karl has just finished his fifth book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction where much of the material for this presentation is discussed in more detail.
In his Gamification book, Karl explores the research and theoretical foundations behind effective game-based learning. He examines everything from variable reward schedules to the use of avatars to the use of games to teach pro-social behaviors.
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