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The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games

Author : Clark Aldrich

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 578 pages

File Size : 40,61 MB

Release : 2009-09-17

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0470506741

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"Ready to blow your mind? Spend 15 seconds reading Clark Aldrich's The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games. Witty, fast-paced, and non-linear -- it's Spock meets Alton Brown." -- Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., The Family Coach This exciting work offers designers a new way to see the world, model it, and present it through simulations. A groundbreaking resource, it includes a wealth of new tools and terms and a corresponding style guide to help understand them. The author -- a globally recognized industry guru -- covers topics such as virtual experiences, games, simulations, educational simulations, social impact games, practiceware, game-based learning/digital game based learning, immersive learning, and serious games. This book is the first of its kind to present definitions of more than 600 simulation and game terms, concepts, and constructs.



Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds

Author : Clark Aldrich

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 136 pages

File Size : 39,16 MB

Release : 2009-09-22

Category : Education

ISBN : 0470438347

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Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds Strategies for Online Instruction Clark Aldrich Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds The infusion of games, simulations, and virtual worlds into online learning can be a transforming experience for both the instructor and the student. This practical guide, written by education game expert Clark Aldrich, shows faculty members and instructional designers how to identify opportunities for building games, simulations, and virtual environments into the curriculum; how to successfully incorporate these interactive environments to enhance student learning; and how to measure the learning outcomes. It also discusses how to build institutional support for using and financing more complex simulations. The book includes frameworks, tips, case studies and other real examples, and resources. Praise for Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds "Clark Aldrich provides powerful insights into the dynamic arena of games, simulations, and virtual worlds in a simultaneously entertaining and serious manner as only he can. If you are involved with educating anyone, from your own children to classrooms full of students, you need to devour this book." — Karl Kapp, assistant director, Institute for Interactive Technologies, Bloomsburg University "At a time when the technologies for e-learning are evolving faster than most people can follow, Aldrich successfully bridges the perceptual gap between virtual worlds, digital games, and educational simulations, and provides educators with all they really need to use this technology to enhance and enrich their e-learning experiences." — Katrin Becker, instructor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Mount Royal College, and adjunct professor of education, University of Calgary "I consider this a must-read for anyone engaged in or contemplating using these tools in their classrooms or designing their own tools." — Rick Van Sant, professor of learning and technology, Ferris State University



Game Development and Simulation with Unreal Technology

Author : Alireza Tavakkoli

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 734 pages

File Size : 38,21 MB

Release : 2015-08-18

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1498706258

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Game Development and Simulation with Unreal Technology explores the use of Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) for the development of real-time digital interactive contents to be used in computerized games or simulations. The engine is considered in three main iterations: from the basic use of the engine to build games and simulation content out of the box, to i







Learning by Doing

Author : Clark Aldrich

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 403 pages

File Size : 35,26 MB

Release : 2008-10-07

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0470464828

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Designed for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators and instructional designers, Learning by Doing explains how to select, research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of educational simulation for the right situation. It covers simple approaches that use basic or no technology through projects on the scale of computer games and flight simulators. The book role models content as well, written accessibly with humor, precision, interactivity, and lots of pictures. Many will also find it a useful tool to improve communication between themselves and their customers, employees, sponsors, and colleagues. As John Coné, former chief learning officer of Dell Computers, suggests, “Anyone who wants to lead or even succeed in our profession would do well to read this book.”



The Lean Games and Simulations Book

Author : John Bicheno

Publisher :

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 43,30 MB

Release : 2014-08-20

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780956830722

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Although you cannot learn about Lean without 'Gemba' experience, games allow the next best thing by fostering a richness of understanding, discussion, participation, and decision making that are essential elements for successful Lean implementation. This book is the second edition of a compendium of participative games to be used by trainers and facilitators to assist them in implementing Lean, Six Sigma and Operational Excellence programs. The book is relevant to both manufacturing and service. A total of 47 games are included, each with full description, player and instructor notes, and game sheets. No special equipment is required other than dice and household items such as scissors. The games range from basic to advanced. Several of the games are arranged in sets, allowing greater in depth exploration of issues. The appendix contains game sheets that are copied and distributed to players. There are approximately 40% more games in this edition, and many of the games in the first edition have been revised and improved.



End-to-End Game Development

Author : Nick Iuppa

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 32,96 MB

Release : 2012-10-12

Category : Art

ISBN : 1136137181

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You're part of a new venture, an independent gaming company, and you are about to undertake your first development project. The client wants a serious game, one with instructional goals and assessment metrics. Or you may be in a position to green light such a project yourself, believing that it can advance your organization's mission and goals. This book provides a proven process to take an independent game project from start to finish. In order to build a successful game, you need to wear many hats. There are graphic artists, software engineers, designers, producers, marketers - all take part in the process at various (coordinated) stages, and the end result is hopefully a successful game. Veteran game producers and writers (Iuppa and Borst) cover all of these areas for you, with step by step instructions and checklists to get the work done. The final section of the book offers a series of case studies from REAL indy games that have been developed and launched succesfully, and show exactly how the principles outlined in the book can be applied to real world products. The book's associated author web site offers ancillary materials & references as well as serious game demos and presentations.



Engaging Learning

Author : Clark N. Quinn

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 14,95 MB

Release : 2005-05-31

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0787979791

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Learning is at its best when it is goal-oriented, contextual, interesting, challenging, and interactive. These same winning characteristics also define the best computer games, which suggests that the most effective learning experiences are also engaging. Learning can and should be hard fun! The challenge is to get in touch with what it takes to design learning experiences that will excite your audience. Engaging Learning offers a much-needed guide for training professionals who want to create learning programs that are both effective and engaging. Clark N. Quinn Learning, a system designer, presents a unique framework for systematically aligning the key elements of learning and engagement with a proven design process for e-learning games. This nuts-and-bolts guide, which is both research-based and grounded in experience, offers the tools needed to transform learning experiences from humdrum to fun.



Story and Simulations for Serious Games

Author : Nick Iuppa

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 23,30 MB

Release : 2012-07-26

Category : Art

ISBN : 1136142789

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How to create a simulation where participants have a sense of freedom and personal control while still maintaining the structure necessary for an effective story is a difficult task indeed. This book examines how to create an engaging, effective story (necessary to teach participants), while relating practical considerations of building a simulation. It also looks at stories as classic ways of teaching and gathering knowledge and considers other theories of interactive narrative design such as synthetic story creation and management and participant-generated story experiences. It also discusses enabling technologies in artificial intelligence, synthetic characters design and development, speech recognition technology, 3D modelling, and the future of story-driven games. Story Driven Simulations reviews the existing efforts in this field as well as focusing on the recent efforts of Paramount Pictures and The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, where this expert author team created successful simulations for the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, as well as other educational simulations.