Building Learning Games using Rapid Interactivity

Rapid Interactivity for Effective eLearning

Building Learning Games

using Rapid Interactivity

Amit Yakhmi

Harbinger Knowledge Products

using Rapid Interactivity

“You can learn more about a man

in an hour of play play play play than in a in an hour of play play play play than in a

Year of conversation”

- Plato- Plato

Top 5 Myths

8

Game Based Learning

Some Statistics

Game-based learning -

one of the new

technology trend for

2011. (Source: 2011

Horizon Report)

70% of major

� Game based learning is learning by playing games

� Games are engaging and fun

� Range from

• Simple to serious games

• Single/ multiplayer immersive games

• Synchronous and asynchronous 70% of major

organizations utilize

interactive software

and games to train.

(Source: Entertainment

Software Association,

2010)

• Synchronous and asynchronous

� Games are being used effectively not only for

relaxing the learners but also for teaching serious

and complex concepts in a more effective way.

� Interactivity is the most important factor in E-

learning/ game based learning today

Game

Judgment

Process OutputInput

Instructional

Content

Learning

Outcomes

Game Based Learning – The Cycle

Game

CycleDebriefing

Behavior

System

feedback

Game

Characteristics

Source: A paper on Aspects of Game- Based Learning - Maja Pivec

Source: http://www.leerbeleving.nl/wbts/3/what_is_it2.html

Challenges in Game Based Learning

� Trainers start with ready interaction models

� They select models that fit a given learning outcome (for

example, diagrams, games, surveys, simulations, exercises,

animations etc.)

� This gives them a starting point.

Rapid Interactivity for Games

Traditional Interactivity Rapid Interactivity

Specify a behavior and write a Flash

program that implements it

Find an interaction model and adapt it

to your course content

Built from ground-up for a specific

need

Starts with ready models that are

customizable

� This gives them a starting point.

� Trainers then easily customize and embed interactivity

into content.

Involves creative effort Involves selection

Involves programming No Programming

Inefficient Efficient

Complexity in development Easy to develop

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