Euan’s Blog

I love on-line educa.  It is an eclectic mix of the sublime to the ridiculous, from the innovative to the truly truly dreadful.  I just chaired a session on Serious Online Games in the Workplace.  So you would think from the title that the speakers of which there were 8 (for 6 sessions 20 minutes each) would present the latest cutting edge examples of the deployment of serious games in the workplace.  

 We saw only one game.  That from Chris Brannigan from Caspian Learning ably accompanied by Sara Bingham from Ufi Learndirect giving an overview of a Thinking Worlds deployment with Ufi learners.  Great stuff…relevant, creative and great outcomes.

 Sara Protopapa from IBM did try and show us a game but the technology didnt work….

 The others ably presented what they presented but they werent presenting anything about games, which as Chair of the session I was slightly puzzled by as I suspect the audience were as well.    But ever it is at Educa. 

 Tomorrow I get to do my 20 minutes on a wee bit of research I’ve being doing on corporate games in the US.   May the hecklers be loud and the audience boistrous and contentious.