Are you a Games Master, Player, Fan, Spectator or Hermit?
Posted by David Wortley
The latest e-newsletter on Gamification and Enabling Technologies accessed by the link above includes a review of 2 recent conferences whose primary focus has been on serious games and gamification for learning and development. The Thaisim 2017 conference in Bangkok included a number of practical examples of the use of gamification for learner…
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Success dissemination case of technology validation by UCM
Posted by BaltaFM
This example case demonstrates technology validation that are being adopted and adapted for the BEACONING platform as well as the initative to collaborate with existing local projects. UCM as lead of the learning analytics task, has collaborated with the DownTown project providing the technology and the experimental design for the scientific validation experiment…
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Thaisim 2017 Keynote on 360 Technologies for StoryTelling, Gamification and Immersive Learning
Posted by David Wortley
The 9th international Thaisim Conference took place on June 29/30 2017 at Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University in Bangkok, Thailand. The Beaconing project principles were featured in the opening keynote presentation at the conference on the topic which can be accessed at https://www.slideshare.net/dwortley/storytelling-and-immersive-learning-with-360-video-vr-technologies-and-gamification-techniques . The presentation included a practical example of the use of immersive…
Read MoreBEACONING Consortium workshop in Bucharest
Posted by Tomasz Skupiński
Last week from Tuesday to Friday, BEACONING consortium partners took part in General Assembly meeting and workshop held by ATS in the city of Bucharest in Romania. For three days we discussed integration process of BEACONING platform and how will we enter piloting phase. Big thanks to all who attended for creative and…
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DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SKILLS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXT
Posted by Marius Preda
Technology is progressing. Science drives its development. New jobs appear every day on the labour market, some we haven’t even thought about. Many of today’s students will do these jobs. They probably won’t be trained for these jobs since they haven’t been invented yet. However they will learn somehow. „Nothing is more important…
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