by Julie Dirksen
So I just bumped into Amy Jo Kim’s Gamification Workshop 2010 slides (via Sebastian Deterding). Amy Jo Kim is another of my professional crushes (she’s awesome), and there’s loads of goodness in the slides, but my favorite bit was based on this image about the Player’s Journey: (Image from Amy Jo Kim’s book “Community Building on the … Read more
When I initially got interested in neuroscience and cognitive psychology (4-5 years ago), I was poking around the interwebs, finding articles and whatnot. Some useful, some not, but pretty much all secondary sources. And, let’s face it, primary sources were beyond me — at the time I could no more have picked up and understood … Read more
So, one of the biggest issues with games for learning, is that there’s this weird logic out there: Um…no, not necessarily… As I allude in the title of this post, I can put on the Wonder Woman costume, but that doesn’t mean I can deflect bullets: (Lest this sound preachy, be assured I have fallen … Read more
So, this came from a comment I made on Simon Bostock’s post Disappointment and Dysludia, and it’s something that I’m curious about. So are educational games movies or sports? By that, I mean: everybody likes movies (except for a tiny fringe that I am not going to worry about designing for). They may like different types of … Read more
The last post (on the pay gap in e-Learning) was a bit of a digression in terms of topics for this blog, but it kind of wasn’t at the same time. I don’t usually get into industry stuff, but I also think that the gender pay gap is an interesting topic from a learning point … Read more
About two weeks ago, Cammy Bean blogged about the eLearning Guild’s latest salary report. In it, she referenced the significant gender pay gap: According to research results, men on average make $10k more than woman. Yes – even in the eLearning biz: There continues to be a consistent gender gap in pay between men and … Read more