“Many HR and L&D professionals face the problem of ensuring that their training and learning programmes maintain learner engagement and motivation. Gamification has been regularly recognised as an opportunity to help solve this problem….”
Game on? The use of gamification in e-learning. | TrainingZone.co.uk.
Turkish archeologist Haluk Sağlamtimur of Ege University in İzmir found several counting tokens in a burial site at Başur Höyük in southeast Turkey. The 5000-year-old artifacts provide evidence that board games started in this part of the Fertile Crescent region in Egypt, which was inhabited as early as 7000 B.C.
The full article from Discovery.com
We are excited to see that there is great interest in the mainstream development community in creating games for education and social impact. As part of that mission, obtaining funding is critical because many of the games/apps are not competitive in a commercial market. Gamasutra recently posted three articles including an interview with Alyce Myatt, the Director of the National Endowment for Humanities.
Interview with the Director of the NEH
Interview with an NEH Program Officer
