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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

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million, on the heels of their official market launch and initial game release due June 1st, 2016, raising the total investment to nearly $2 million. Triseum has grown to over thirty staff, incorporating former Texas A&M University students, professors and leading experts in game development from around the country.

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#40years of educational technology: Games

Learning with 'e's

By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum. It is the century, according to Zimmerman ( source ) where playfulness and gaming will define the era. Unported License.

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#40years of educational technology: Games

Learning with 'e's

By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum. It is the century, according to Zimmerman ( source ) where playfulness and gaming will define the era. Unported License.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

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For example, a paperless classroom takes time and energy to begin, but a teacher who makes over 100 copies a day might find themselves saving a significant amount of time if you consider the time it takes to stand by the copier over a year. Create variety (different kinds of examples, models, exercises, and presentation modalities).

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

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4 [ Game-Based Learning Yields Empathetic Understanding ] Adopters You can take a personality test, a learning style inventory, or even a which-character-are-you quiz, but I would argue the power of meaningful self-perception. For example if the topic was gaming in the classroom: who do you think you are?