Landon Phillips - The Game is Afoot: How Game-Based Learning Can Transform a Class Both On & Offline
Channel: SUNY Online Teaching
Date: 2015-08-19

Slides from this presentation are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/LandonPhillips/the-game-is-afoot-suny-conference-2015

Education is and always will be, an ever-changing field. Populated by dreamers, leaders, and life long learners, we should never be content to simply stick to the status quo and assume that today’s learners must learn the same way we did. This exciting passion for pursuing a classroom progressively closer to the ideal learning environment has lead many educators to dabble in the field of game based learning. But does it live up to the hype, and can it be translated into an online experience? Can this group of pedagogy strategies really increase engagement, assessment levels, and overall learning outcomes, or does it sacrifice education for entertainment? For that matter, how much extraneous work actually goes into “game-ifying” a class, especially in an online format? In this talk, we’ll discover the lessons learned from a first time attempt at employing these strategies, and how they can be adapted to a virtual environment. If interested, press start to continue.