Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games

by Clark N. Quinn and Marcia Conner

Learning is at its best when it is goal-oriented, contextual, interesting, challenging, and interactive. These same winning characteristics also define the best computer games, which suggests that the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787975222
• ISBN13: 9780787975227
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Pfeiffer & Company
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Hard Fun!

I will be brief. That's the way you feel when you're engaged in an eLearning Simulation Game. You get swept up in it. You're turned on. You block out life's static in order to reach your goal. Clark's book is like that. BUY THIS BOOK!

excellent

I've known and worked with Clark Quinn for several years. He's written a very good book. Like the e-learning it advocates, Engaging Learning is fun, accessible and, well, engaging. Working from a solid theoretical framework, Clark explains why learning should be "hard fun" and then shows how to create that kind of e-learning. He includes several detailed case studies. As someone who develops e-learning for a living, I appreciated his pragmatic approach and acknowledgement that e-learning can be developed at different levels of engagement, depending on budget, schedule, quality of source material, etc. What really shines through, though, is Clark's passion for incorporating simulations and gaming techniques into e-learning. If you read this book and some of that rubs off, you will develop better e-learning.