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Saturday, May 17 • 10:30 - 11:30
Game On! Enhancing Engagement With Student-Generated Game Designs

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Games can be an effective tool for integration of concepts and attitudes within a complex landscape. Integration of game mechanics and game-thinking techniques to non-game platforms has recently gained grounds in multiple domains, including Teaching and Training. The ‘Gamification’ of education, or training programs, can greatly enhance user experience and influence user behavior.

Game design techniques can be a powerful tool to help students use higher order thinking skills to create educational student content. A group of students at AUC were introduced to basic principles of ‘Gamification’, using education of sustainable development as a context for student-generated games. Sample developed games will be showcased and analyzed in our session.

Attendees will be introduced to game-thinking techniques, and how adding a “game layer” to educational or training material can generate products that are engaging and influential to both the user and the developer of a gamified experience.
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Fady Morcos

Visiting Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo
Fady Morcos is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo, where he co-develops and facilitates experiential learning modules for freshman students, focusing on cognitive and creative skills. Fady directs Egypt’s first student micro-satellite program. He... Read More →
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Hoda Mostafa

Director CLT, American University in Cairo
Hoda is a Professor of Practice and the Director at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo. She works in educational development, digital education and strategic pedagogical and institutional initiatives. She collaborates across AUC, as a faculty developer... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2014 10:30 - 11:30 PDT
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