gamification, online, elearning, Gee, affinity space, badging, micro-credentialing

1. Adding a Game
Layer to an Online
Course
Dr. Jeff Kissinger

2. WHAT IS WORTH 1
BILLION DOLLARS?

5. $1 Billion Worth of:
• Community
• Passion
• Emotional Storytellers
• Millions of Affinity Groups!!! Invaluable?

9. Risk of Failure
• Low
• Authentic
• Situated
• Iterative
• Emotional/Affective

10. Roles of Failure
Experiences of failure create opportunities for learning.
• Deep learning and mastery
• Allows players to take risks
• The penalty of failure is low: within games, failed strategies
can be followed by trying new strategies.

11. Affinity & Emotion

12. Games=Affinity Spaces

13. My Message......
EMOTION IS LEARNING'S
GOLD STANDARD Amygdala
Fear
Rewards
Where were you when...........?

14. Size matters?
@jeffkiss

17. Emotional Memory

18. Video: 9/11 WTC Attack
Where were you when
the Twin Towers
collapsed?

19. Engagement

20. First Kiss

21. Having Your First Baby

22. Making Your First Baby

23. Where were you when MLK gave the “I Have A
Dream Speech”?

24. if EMOTION IS LEARNING'S
GOLD STANDARD Amygdala
Fear
Rewards
HOW
Do we foster affective
learning experiences?

25. Video Games as Exceptional
Learning Tools
C. Shawn Green
Learning and
Transfer lab

26. Bad vehicle + good content =
no learning

27. Good vehicle + good content = good
learning

28. Neural plasticity
Perceptual learning

29. Games Are Serious!
GLS Team Higher
Education Judges 2010,
2011,2012 ITSEC Serious
Games Challenge
Higher Ed Judges: 2010, 2011, 2012

30. Bio-Dome

31. Bio-Dome

32. Bio-Dome

33. Bio-Dome

37. Name?

39. Fold It

40. Case Study:
Cyber Security
Phase 1

41. Virtual
Discussions,
Real Students

42. • Anchored Instruction
• Pedagogical Agents
• Teaching with Narrative & Story
• Simulated Discussions
• Mobile Enabled

45. Lee Sheldon

47. DSC2750
Cyber Challenge
Cybersecurity awareness raising and capacity
building!!!

48. Design
FERPA? Frame Grades
work ?
LMS? Fun?

49. !!!!

50. Cyber Challenge!
the Game

52. Cyber Challenge! Game Elements:
-The story, graphic novel
course layer
-Cooperative strategy game
-Individual, competitive
achievement game
-Macro level social
recognition badge
-Technology: Wordpress
(easy!)$FREE$!!!

53. Code Wars: Discussion
-Student vs student
-Peer review
-Ethics & values
-Worldview
affective, emotional

54. Cyber Threats: Assignment
-Guilds vs guilds vs
the game
-Cooperative
learning
-”Clue” style
-Strategy game

55. Game-Based Assignments
Cyber Threat Code Wars
•Case-based scenarios •Compete against classmates
•Teams •Cyber attack
•Roles •Cyber attack responses
•Rubric •Rubric
•Cyber coins •Cyber coins
Cyber Coins
Cyber Badges

61. Cyber
Coin
Game
Economy

62. Girl Scouts
Badges Military
Stickers

63. Badges
•Achievements
•Reputation
•Portfolio
•Motivation
•Skillsets
•Recognition
•Ownership

64. Achievement
Badges
Leveling up

71. Jeff Ki ss
twitter @ inger
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@fscj.ed
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