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Game-Based Learning: How to Give Your Learners a Safe Place to Fail

By Kevin Gumienny  |  July 19, 2017  |    |  

Ethan Edwards of Allen Interactions likes to make the point that we can’t make people learn. You can’t learn someone to do something. You have to create the conditions where they want to bring the information to themselves. And games are a great place to create a sense of engagement. Games create a new world, one with rules that put constraints on actions. In terms of training, this creates a[…]

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