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Instructional Design

Games that Teach

Make your programs more engaging as you learn how to design, develop, and facilitate games that support your learning initiatives.

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“I valued the structure of games in regard to the storyline and the difference between gamification and games. Great facilitator.”
★★★★★
Kendra
Auto Club of Southern California Costa Mesa, CA
Program Overview

Games that Teach

Adults learn better when they are engaged and there’s no better way to make your workshops more engaging than to reinforce key concepts with fun and creative games. Play along as you learn how to design, develop, and facilitate games that support your learning programs.

Who Should Attend

Is this program right for you?

  • Course designers, course developers, instructors, and subject matter experts who are interested in adding games that support adult learning principles to their courses.

  • Learning managers and line managers who are responsible for evaluating the impact of learning initiatives.

Key Benefits

What you will gain

  • Experience for yourself how different types of games can engage learners and promote meaningful learning.

  • Receive a checklist for selecting and evaluating games.

  • Learn strategies to handle resistance to using games in learning programs.

  • Take home templates to help you design and develop games quickly and inexpensively.

  • Learn how to properly debrief games in six stages so that your learners gain meaning, useful insights, and value.

  • Leave with over 60 descriptions and examples of icebreakers, learning games, and closers.

  • Receive Complimentary Post-Learning Sustainment.

Program Objectives

What you will be able to do

  • Describe the relevance of games to adult learning principles.

  • Use strategies for handling learner resistance to learning games.

  • Identify types of games.

  • Explain the advantages of using various types of games.

  • Select appropriate and effective games.

  • Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of games.

  • Discuss the value of debriefing games.

  • Select and create post-game debriefing questions.

  • Design an effective game.

Content Outline

What the program covers

FUNDAMENTALS OF USING GAMES

  • Why use games?

  • Learning Principles and Games.

  • Strategies for Dealing with Resistance to Games.

  • Facilitation Tips.

  • Selecting and Evaluating Games.

  • Did they learn anything? (The 6 Stages of Debriefing Games).

TYPES OF GAMES

  • Guidelines for Creating, Selecting, and Using:

    • Ice breakers

    • Learning games

    • Closers.

  • Sample Games

DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING GAMES

  • Faster, Cheaper, Better Games.

  • Templates

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