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What’s Driving Toca Boca's 100 Million Downloads?

What’s Driving Toca Boca's 100 Million Downloads? | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Hey EdSurge readers. I’m
back from vacation and ready with something fresh for your faces! You may know me for writing about educational games, but today I am writing about some apps that are not educational. Nor are they games. What are these apps, you ask? Why, they’re from Toca Boca, which
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Upload an image to turn into a mosaic/Avatar

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Serious Games Directory

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Game Element: Freedom - by Karl Kapp

Game Element: Freedom - by  Karl Kapp | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
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Learn to Win With These 6 Great Game Examples

Learn to Win With These 6 Great Game Examples | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Got a boatload of compliance training you need to design and distribute? Turn it from “ugh” to “awesome” by making it a game! Gamification has been making mundane activities more appealing since th...
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July 25, 2015 8:26 AM
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Androidify - Create an Avatar

Androidify - Create an Avatar | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
The all-new Androidify app, available free from the Google Play Store, lets you take the little green Android mascot and turn it into yourself, your family, your friends… anyone! Then, share them as animated emoticons, GIFs & pics.
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Gamification or Game-Based Learning? What’s the Difference?

Gamification or Game-Based Learning? What’s the Difference? | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Gamification and Game-Based Learning are icing and cake. They’re related, but they’re two separate things.
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Four Important Considerations for Development of Mobile Serious Games by Mason Martin

Four Important Considerations for Development of Mobile Serious Games by Mason  Martin | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
While designing linear eLearning that plays well on mobile devices is fairly straightforward, creating mobile serious games
requires different considerations and development strategies. Here is a quick rundown of the four most critical things you
must take into account when building a serious game that supports mobile devices.
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Top Gamification Stats and Facts For 2015 Infographic You Need To Know

Top Gamification Stats and Facts For 2015 Infographic You Need To Know | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Top Gamification Stats and Facts For 2015 Infographic You Need To Know Infographic presents the Top Gamification Stats and Gamification Facts For 2015.
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Learn to Win With These 6 Great Game Examples

Learn to Win With These 6 Great Game Examples | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Got a boatload of compliance training you need to design and distribute? Turn it from “ugh” to “awesome” by making it a game! Gamification has been making mundane activities more appealing since th...
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May 31, 2015 10:25 AM
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What is Game Based Learning -(Video)

)a brief introduction to game-based learning

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Want to Make Your Course ‘Gameful’? A Michigan Professor’s Tool Could Help

Want to Make Your Course ‘Gameful’? A Michigan Professor’s Tool Could Help | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
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Stanford Study Shows Dramatic Math Improvement From Playing Video Games Just 10 Minutes Per Day

Stanford Study Shows Dramatic Math Improvement From Playing Video Games Just 10 Minutes Per Day | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Third graders played for just 10 minutes per day, 3 days a week, for four weeks. The comparison group’s class received the same materials and the same instruction, but didn’t play the game. The result of playing was a staggering 20.5% improvement after just two hours of self-guided play. Of course, [...]
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Do Gamified Language Learning Apps Work?

Do Gamified Language Learning Apps Work? | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Note: The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Santiago Montero, founder and director of Spanish Tutor DC. Santiago has spent more than fifteen years
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5 Easy Steps to #Gamifying #HigherEd

5 Easy Steps to #Gamifying #HigherEd | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
It’s time to get the party started with gamification in higher education. Maybe it’s the liberating feeling of the summer, or the fact that it is the perfect time for some educators to make improvements to their curriculums. Maybe I’m just sick of waiting for the gamification movement to bloom on its own. Regardless, it …
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Game Element: Balance - by Karl Kapp

Game Element: Balance - by Karl Kapp | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
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We took a tour of the abandoned college campuses of Second Life

We took a tour of the abandoned college campuses of Second Life | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
A lot of colleges bought the Second Life hype and set up their own private islands.
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Athabasca University Press - Learning in Virtual Worlds: Research and Applications

Athabasca University Press - Learning in Virtual Worlds: Research and Applications | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
AU Press publishes scholarly monographs, journals and websites. Electronic publications of AU Press are freely available online via open access.
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7 Steps to an Effective Serious Game or Gamification Implementation

7 Steps to an Effective Serious Game or Gamification Implementation | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Are you a do-it-yourselfer? When it comes to serious games, ATD says you probably are. In an ATD survey conducted for its 2014 research report, Playing to Win: Gamification and Serious Games in Organizational Learning (link), 71% of organizations reported that they prefer to develop serious games in-house. 83% said they planned to develop gamification in-house.  I’d say that’s a [...]
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Implementing Gamification? Consider These Tips

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Using Games for Assessment

Using Games for Assessment | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
While assessment is built into some games, teachers can assess learning after gameplay by having students create a mod or strategy guide, or develop game scenarios.
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Gamification Unplugged: Lessons for Learning Design

Gamification Unplugged: Lessons for Learning Designf Presentation given as keynote at the VocTel 2015 conference in Athens, June 17, 2015.
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Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification

Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Scene: Sales meeting between executives of a leading learning service provider and an organisation planning to outsource its learning content
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2015 ATD ICE Conference Slides & Resources « Karl Kapp

2015 ATD ICE Conference Slides & Resources « Karl Kapp | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
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5 Sites for Anyone Interested in Learning to Make Games

5 Sites for Anyone Interested in Learning to Make Games | Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification | Scoop.it
Have you ever dreamed of making your own video game, but gotten stuck with every tool you've looked at? Here are five you can start with that aim to make the process as simple as possible – no programming necessary. We've shown you development tools you should learn to make your own games, but that…
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