A multi-award winning serious games designer and author (Why Games Are Good For Business) with a background and passion in behavioural sciences and psychology, Helen has helped many organisations realise their ambitions of deploying serious games to drive the impact and effectiveness of learning solutions.
Gamification is a term that you’ve probably heard before, but it can mean so much more than points, badges, and leaderboards. By understanding the power of true game mechanics you can hit the sweet spot between game mechanics, subject matter expertise, and great user-centered design.
As business owners and leaders, we all want to influence the behavior of others around us—whether it is influencing customers to buy from us and remain loyal, or staff to be more productive, or even just getting our kids to clean their rooms! But how exactly does this happen?
Games are so much more than pretty pictures and fun experiences. Game designers understand human psychology and how people learn; they have to in order to keep them engaged and invested. In this article, we explore 4 key principles used in serious game design.
No doubt if you work in L&D or HR you’ve heard someone talk about virtual reality (VR). But what is it and what is it really capable of? In this article, we explore some of the frequently asked questions around this topic to shed some light on this relatively new technology.
Stories should be a part of any Instructional Designers tool kit; they are a powerful technique to help learners explore and understand concepts. But stories are an underused component of Learning and Development; here we explore narrative driven Instructional Design, what we can learn from serious games, and how to weave stories into your designs.
In the highly digital world we’re immersed in, people still doubt the ability of online learning to teach subjects that are traditionally ‘hands on’. Project management is an example of this. So, here, I tackle the issue straight on asking if you can learn effective project management skills online.