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The benefits of gamification for simulations
Simulations are great for teaching and training skills. Yet the effectiveness of a simulator can be improved when it is combined with gamification techniques. By improving the experience of simulations
Serious games, gamification and game-based learning: what’s the difference?
They all have practically the same goal, but are different in practice: serious games, gamification and game-based learning. In this article you will find the meanings, differences and pros
Why is serious gaming fun?
Serious games help to motivate learning and to realize behavioural change. Games are generally played for entertainment. In serious games, the learning objective is key, but the game has to
‘Distress!’ wins Gold Medal in Serious Play Awards
Grendel Games has received the highest international distinction at the prestigious International Serious Play Awards ’23 in Toronto. This event is a leading international gathering for game developers creating serious games to enhance skills and knowledge development.
Interactive Games for Virtual Tutoring Success
Explore the future of education with virtual tutoring and interactive games. From Kahoot to Rekenheld, discover how these tools transform learning, making it not just informative but enjoyable. In this article, we uncover the surprising impact of gamification strategies on student engagement and successful learning.
Using Serious Games for Experiential Learning
Over the years, we’ve stepped away from traditional views on learning, to more engaging frameworks. Using serious games for experiential learning isn’t just fun, it comes with many other great benefits. In this article, we’ll go over what experiential learning is, and how serious games can help you learn.
Facilitating Collaboration and Peer Support in Online Classrooms with Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) in online classrooms increases student learning performance. Although still in its early stages, the technology holds the potential to revolutionise the learning experience.
Why game design is integral to VR
Everything in a VR world is created by computer, graphics, sounds and most importantly the interactions with people and objects that are present. That intractability, is something that game designers, artists and programmers have a massive edge in creating. And that’s why we believe that if you are going into VR, then you need to partner with a game studio to get the best results.
VR for sales team training
As we all struggle to redesign the way we work together remotely, VR and XR offer amazing ways to create team moments, and to revolutionize some quite dull training. Imagine a new sort of water cooler moment, or a great way to engage the team in a brainstorming or creative ideas session.
The prostate gland in Virtual Reality
We set a challenge, to the development team here, to make the most realistic model of the endoscopic anatomy of the prostate and bladder possible, that we could use in a VR application and I wanted to give you a more detailed walk through, so here it is.
VR is immersive
The level of immersion that you can create in VR is hugely valuable to creating a sense of place and context for training and education. Creating a realistic sense of place for clinical scenarios improves the learner experience and how seriously they engage with the training episode. Imagine a real sense of peril in a clinical case scenario, or the realism of the response of a patient to an intervention. The possibilities are limitless.
Why VR and why now?
Low-cost VR headsets are the hardware solution, to enable better access to training in a realistic and fun way. How could you use this technology to train your customers remotely, at a fraction of the cost of employing dedicated high cost simulator hardware?
What is XR?
Extended Reality – the whizzy term for all things mixed, augmented and virtual reality is here – are you ready for them, do you know how you can use them?
Do you need a metaverse?
It’s a big question, and looking at the current punditry on this issue, the jury is split “it’s the next really big thing” to “it will never catch on”. We’re going to answer this question, over the next few weeks, one minute at a time.
Deliberately practicing decision making
When your child learns to ride a bike, they might have the technical riding skills down pat, but you won’t let them cycle to school on their own, unless they can make a safe decision about where to cross the street. That in a nutshell is how important the decisions around a technical skill are. Serious Games can help make you better decision makers.
