Play to Learn: Designing Effective Learning Games

Title: Play to Learn: Designing Effective Learning Games

When: Wednesday, August 28^th 8:15 am – 4:15 pm

Location: ExactTarget, 20 N. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN

Speakers: Dr. Karl Kapp, Ed.D, Sharon Boller

Cost: $389 for CIASTD members or their coworkers. ($70 value – fee for non-members is $459. Use promo code CIASTD23 when registering to get the discount.

Registration: http://bottomlineperformance.com/play-to-learn

Learning games are a hot, hot trend – but why? What makes them work and how in the world do you go about designing one? In this workshop, you will explore a variety of games to identify what makes them playable and then design your own learning games using a step-by-step approach to design. You will then build a prototype of your game and actually play itundefinedlearning how to play test and how to iterate to improve the game’s playability and efficacy as a learning tool. You will leave the workshop with a coherent road map to help design future games (whether those games are digital ones or tablet-top games). You will also take away a list of resources to help further your learning and skill-development as game designers.

The best parts? 1) The workshop is in downtown Indy. 2) Bottom-Line Performance is giving CIASTD members and their coworkers $70 off. 3) Workshop attendees receive a signed copy of Karl Kapp’s newest book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, as part of their registration fee.

Take-Aways

You will design a learning game as part of the daylong session. What you’ll leave with:

• A six-step process you can use to design learning games back at your job..
  
• A playtesting process to do rapid iteration of your game design.
  
• A list and description of various core dynamics and game elements you can incorporate into your games with ideas on how to use them appropriately 
  
• Ability to answer the question, “Why games?” when talking to your stakeholders about the value of learning games. 
  
• A signed copy of Karl Kapp’s most recent book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, a $50 value!!
  

Register to attend or download the full agenda for the day: http://bottomlineperformance.com/play-to-learn