Kevin Corti, CEO & Co-founder, PIXELearning

The Learning Revolution:A serious call to action!

• Founder & CEO, PIXELearning• Board/steering group member of IDM & WM Serious about games, Digital Central & ANGILS• Member Elearning Guild, Elearning Network & NASAGA• Frequent speaker/writer on ‘serious games’ in UK, EU and US• Based at The Serious Games Institute, UK• Sold, designed & delivered over 40 game/sim projects

Audience…

• Passionate, innovative, excited & interested• Confused, wary of risks & fear of failure!

Navigating through the cloud -THE FUTURE OF E-LEARNING & TECHNOLOGIES (ETD08: Prague)

Don’t evangelise about technology for technology’s sake – it’s about doing business stupid!

(with apologies to former President Clinton’s campaign organisers!)

But it’s all about Generation Y isn’t it?

…not yet it isn’t!!!

If you are a CxO….

Key considerations:

1. What keeps the CxO awake at night? – not a cliché

2. Where can Learning 2.0 add serious value?

• Financial performance• Human capital• Competitive environment

THE BLOGOSPHERE

PEERREVIEW

WISDOM OF CROWDS

[1] Capture knowledge[2] Virtual experience[3] Support informal learning[4] User-generated content[5] Social networks/communities[6] Virtual worlds[7] Game the skill

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RUN A BUSINESS

PERFORM BATTLEFIELDTRIAGE

RUN A COUNTRY

BE A SOLDIERVISIT THE PAST

BE A ROCK GOD

[1] Capture knowledge[2] Virtual experience[3] Support informal learning[4] User-generated content[5] Social networks/communities[6] Virtual worlds[7] Game the skill

SEMANTICSEARCH

THEANSWERIS OUTTHERE!

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

DATABASES

[1] Capture knowledge[2] Virtual experience[3] Support informal learning[4] User-generated content[5] Social networks/communities[6] Virtual worlds[7] Game the skill

SEARCH

TAGGED PHOTOS

MACHINIMA

ANYTHING &EVERYTHING

GAME MODS

[1] Capture knowledge[2] Virtual experience[3] Support informal learning[4] User-generated content[5] Social networks/communities[6] Virtual worlds[7] Game the skill

VIDEO

SOCIAL &LEISURE

NICHE TOPICS/DOMAINS

PROFESSIONALNETWORKS

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SCENARIOTRAINING

COLLABORATION& COMMUNICATION

APPLICATIONSHARING

SERENDIPITY

SOCIAL, LEISURE& ENTERTAINMENT

[1] Capture knowledge[2] Virtual experience[3] Support informal learning[4] User-generated content[5] Social networks/communities[6] Virtual worlds[7] Game the skill

[1] Capture knowledge[2] Virtual experience[3] Support informal learning[4] User-generated content[5] Social networks/communities[6] Virtual worlds[7] Game the skill

STEP INTO THE SHOES OF OTHERS

PREMIUM SKILLS

MEANINGFULPRACTICE

RISK-FREEEXPERIMENTATION

SOMETHINGDIFFERENT

Serious games / immersive simulationspractice, learn by doing, experience, challenge, problem spaces, compete, apply, perform,assess,game the skill…

• Provide opportunities for meaningful (and repeat) practice – “game the skill”

• Focus on high order cognitive activity / skills rather than ‘information dissemination’

• Provide realistic, transferrable ‘virtual experience’

• Experiential, problem/task-based (adult learning theory)

• Engage and actively involve learners rather than ‘passive reception’

Why use games & simulations?

Basically…..

Is there a process, environment or system that can be conceptually and/or visually modelled and from which relevant and meaningful scenarios created?

When is a Serious Games appropriate?

Serious Games and sims

Serious games allow you to experience something from an alternative perspective; to feel what it might be like for someone else.

Pulling this all together…• Based around real-world scenarios, systems & processes• Task/goal-based, aligned to world of work• Focuses on high value skills building• Interactive, adapts to choices/performance, learns from user• Fosters collaboration (and competition)• Captures rich usage & performance data• Is a mix of 2D and 3D (and net-based)• Editing & sharing for all users• Tightly integrated with social networking• Fosters communities of shared interest

The ‘future’ bit…

All of this exists today….

…some of it is proven, some not so (“in Beta”)…

The real power comes when we learn how to BLEND it all together in a coherent and

appropriate way….

….it will most likely be the users that show us HOW

Kevin Corti, CEO founder & Chief Learning Architect

Email: kevin.corti@pixelearning.com

Company web: www.pixelearning.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kevincorti

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