Imagine this It’s Monday morning, and you’re heading to another mandatory corporate training session. You’re dreading being trapped in a stuffy conference room for hours, listening to a monotonous speaker drone on about topics that barely resonate with you. But wait! Something’s amiss! You’re greeted by an entirely new experience as you enter the room.…
Children should learn through play! This has become a familiar rallying cry in education circles as educators and parents have realised that compared to traditional classroom learning, learning through play engages children and helps them develop crucial social and cognitive skills. That’s wonderful for the kids, but what about us adults? Will we be stuck…
In the movie ‘Ready Player One’, the main character ‘Parzival’ races to solve three impossible challenges. The twist? He is solving these challenges by entering a virtual world. In this world, you can look however you like, earn and spend money, throw punches that hurt, and be best friends with people you’ve never met. You…
The Epic of Gilgamesh, discovered in the ruins of an ancient library, is known as the world’s oldest story. It’s a tale of adventure, where our handsome, arrogant hero Gilgamesh finds himself being challenged to battle. Against the odds, our hero and his challenger strike a friendship, and together, they embark on quests to defeat…
As the pandemic recedes in the rear-view mirror, companies are turning their gaze to new opportunities on the horizon. Alongside this, upskilling and reskilling are quickly becoming top priorities. After all, success or failure in this new environment depends on whether the workforce has the right skills, competencies and capabilities. More than ever, learning and…
Have you ever sat through a dull lecture but had no recollection of it afterwards? Or wondered why it’s so difficult to find training sessions that are useful but also interesting? Creating a relevant and engaging learning experience can be challenging, but it’s by no means impossible! Introduction Scenario-based learning is a method of…
Introduction As the retail landscape gets more competitive, industry players find it more challenging to fill vacant positions or to up-staff segments of their workforce with talent from elsewhere within the organisation. Related: The Octalysis Gamification Framework for Corporate eLearning Turning Retail Reality into Games Organisations are now using gamification in unique ways, from onboarding…
Introduction Tiktok is a social engagement technology used to create and share short-form videos of varying topics between 15 to 30 seconds long. Since its inception in 2017, TikTok has successfully acquired over one billion actively engaged users. Out of this massive base of users, almost half are between the ages of 16 to 24…
Introduction When it comes to developing an engaging course for your organisation, there are various factors that you shall look out for, especially those that capture the learners’ attention and motivate them to take action on what they have learned. Related: 5 Effective Ways to Integrate Simulation Into Sales Skills Training Challenge In some cases,…
Introduction Gamification has been one of the main movements in many aspects of business and education, and it has delivered results for many organisations. And yet, the idea of gamification is still thought to be about playing games online, mobile phones, or simply having elements of gaming packed into a “gamified” application with badges, leaderboards…