The Experiment A few months back, I was having coffee with a friend and he was talking about how some of the kids on his son’s baseball team had such a better understanding of baseball because they played MLB’s The Show. He said they had a better understanding of the rules, certain faux-pas-plays, and best practices in certain situations. They couldn’t always execute (I guess that’s the difference between 10-year olds and professional athletes), but they had a better understa

Link to the original article - https://ijet.itd.cnr.it/index.php/td/article/view/1502/1275 The editorial by Passarelli, Andreoletti, Silva, and Arnab does something I appreciate by acknowledging the challenges. They call out teacher training gaps, practical constraints, and implementation difficulties. But then the six studies they feature? Five of them focus on purpose-built serious games and gamification systems. Serious games matter, and many show strong results in the rig

Organizations can improve the effectiveness of their learning by over 180% simply by implementing proper transfer techniques ( Wilson Learning , 2024). Yet less than 15-20% of knowledge and skills acquired in training institutes typically transfer to the workplace ( International Journal of Training and Development , 2011). What they missed is that they're measuring transfer from artificial training environments that don’t resemble actual work pressures. As someone who facili

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