George Kalmpourtzis

Teaching game design in the kindergarten

Game design is a very interesting pedagogic tool. Apart from its diverse positive effects on creativity, expression and team building of students, modern research indicates that it has a positive impact on students’ STEAM skills. Game design, like any other…Read more
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An introduction to SCORM

My friend and colleague Romain Gibert recently posted an interesting article on his blog: [here] There are no technical standards when it comes to format and compatibility with elearning. SCORM has been the de-facto model for interoperability and compatibility among…Read more
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How to design immersive game experiences: Mastering norms

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. Educational game design is strongly linked with sociocultural aspects of individual groups. Players have already defined expectations since they have played several games. They have seen movies,…Read more
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Observing and exploring as a tool for learning

Almost two and a half thousand years ago, the Greek mathematician Archimedes was preparing for his bath in Syracuse. Entering his bath-tub, he observed that the level of water was rising the more he was diving in. It was at…Read more
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How to motivate students to learn?!

There are several cases where students show greater interest for particular activities contrary to others. However, the nature of those activities is not always defined. Someone would think that only games can be engaging for students but in fact, engagement…Read more
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Teachers’ greatest challenge

In his book Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000, Isaac Asimov chose to publish designs of artists, who at the beginning of the twentieth century, tried to imagine how the world be a hundred years later. One of…Read more
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The use of Learning Profiles in teaching

The use of Adaptive Learning systems is an interesting topic, which I follow quite frequently. An interesting comment on Romain Gibert’s blog on the issue attracted my attention. On his side, he had been influenced by sydologie.com and their article:…Read more
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