Beaconing participated at Futuro Summit (http://www.futuro-summit.com/): two days dedicated to innovation in the Healthcare sector. At their booth imaginary presented the Beaconing project concept and results and how they suggest a new training concept for medical CME courses with analytics.
Read MoreLast week at the EC-TEL conference in Tallinn an interactive workshop on gamified lesson plans creation took place, putting together technologies and tools developed within the scope of the Beaconing and Rage projects. During the morning sessions attendees have been provided with an overview of the two projects, the achievements reached so far and a presentation of the developed digital tools. Leveraging on those information participants were asked, in the afternoon session, to co-design gamified lesson plans and then pitch their results to the audience.
Read MoreBefore teachers starting a new school year , in ORT Paris, Teachers from ORT Toulouse, ORT Montreuil , ORT Lyon, and ORT Villiers Le Bel met to be trained to Beaconing tools. Organized as a Summer Camp, participating teachers coming from different ORT organisations in France, and grouped according to the STEM topics teached. Most of them already attended previous workshops presenting Beaconing, were now very interested in being trained for GLPs creation.
Read MoreSEBIT organizes regular training sessions for the head teachers of the Ministry of National Education. Head teachers are master instructional designers who can help BEACONING with Gamified Learning Path localization. Earlier this year one session was devoted to BEACONING and a general introduction was delivered. This time, a hands on activity was organized to let head teachers pilot the BEACONING Authoring Tool for play-lesson plans. They experimented with methods for blending gaming and learning. They evaluated interfaces for entering rubrics and metadata. The general impression was that the tool usability is very high. Detailed feedback is gathered and presented to the project team.
Read MoreDr.-Ing. Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge has written a guest editorial in IJSG 2017 vol.4 no.2 journal.
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