Training Today's People: Better Employees Through Gaming

by David Edery, Ethan Mollick

Overview

This Element is an excerpt from Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business (ISBN: 9780132357814) by David Edery and Ethan Mollick. Available in print and digital formats.

 

Learn how powerful and cost-effective new video game technologies can supercharge business training, reaching a new generation of learners more effectively than any other approach.

 

Video games can intuitively teach three valuable skills that classrooms are miserable at teaching, and even the smartest people have trouble learning on their own. Games can improve employees’ abilities to work in teams, use systems thinking, and learn from virtual experience when real experience is too costly or difficult.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780137038190
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	10/12/2009
Series:	FT Press Delivers Elements
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	10
File size:	507 KB

About the Author

David Edery is Worldwide Games Portfolio Planner for Xbox Live Arcade and research affiliate of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program (CMS). As MIT CMS Associate Director for Special Projects, he cofounded the Convergence Culture Consortium, a research partnership with corporations such as MTV Networks, Turner Broadcasting, and GSD+M. At CMS, he managed Cyclescore, an “exertainment” project fusing original video games and stationary exercise equipment. Ethan Mollick cofounded eMeta, the leading developer of software for selling content online. He has consulted with DARPA, Eli Lilly, General Mills, MIT Media Lab, and Charles River Ventures.