Game Time

A growing body of research supports games as superior to traditional lecture-based approaches in helping people learn and retain content—as long as those games are well-designed and well-implemented. In addition to surpassing the efficacy of lecture-based approaches, games offer compelling ways to help people with strategy, resource allocation, and innovative thinking. They can help people understand alternate points of view. Games also provide an opportunity for each player to have a personalized learning experience, where the learner can choose to review content, attempt different strategies, experiment, and experience the game differently from co-workers and still reach the same learning outcome.