Games and Simulations
Here are some games and simulations that are being used to teach the gamers, are being used in corporations or that have the potential for effective knowledge transfer. If you know of a link that you would like me to add to this list, please email me.
Immersive Learning Games and Simulations
Educational Games Teaching About Nobel Prize Winning Research
Learning to Conduct a Focus Group
In the area of advertising and creative strategy, focus-groups are the most popular method for interview research. Unfortunately, focus groups require enormous amounts of resources and skill both to administer and interpret. The need is to create a simulation to model the focus group process and assess learners on their ability to interpret and categorize respondent data.
- Check out Focus Factor (This game was created by a very talented former student Ryan Reilly.)
Drag and Drop Exercises (More like puzzles than games but effective for online learning)
- Bacterium (a type of cell) --teaches declarative knowledge
- Nuclear Reactor --teaches concepts
- Map--teaches concepts of "Longitude" and "Latitude"
- Scientific Method--teaches sequential knowledge
"Basic Knowledge" Games
- Wack-a-Mole AKA Bop-a-Fox (teaches classification, concepts, identification)
- Hangman-based games (teaches definitions)
- Race Games (teaches definitions, terms and concepts)
- Word Search (teaches definitions and terms)
- Learn the Capitals of the United States (Created by Ryan Reilly.) (teaches factual knowledge)
Board Games
- Get the Glass (This is a combination of a board game and a story, a lot of fun and it teaches you about milk and milk products.)
- Manufacturing Board Game
- Banking Board Game Prototype
MMOLE (Massively Multi-Learning Online Learning Envrionment.
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