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Learning with Games, a teachers guide.

Games can provide the motivation to learn, increasing the likelihood that the desired learning outcomes will be achieved. Learning is defined as the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience or practice, and what better way to learn than through a game. Professor Dr’s Maja and Paul Pivec have [...] Continue Reading…

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Digital Me: a Cognitive Assessment and Training Application

Pivec Labs have launched a crowd funding campaign to develop a new Cognitive Assessment and Training Application, using Enhanced Game Design to Accelerate Learning. The Project is based on 10 years of in-depth research and prototyping, and results have shown that with “Recursive Learning Theory” in a game based environment, [...] Continue Reading…

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Games to treat Alzheimer’s

“The estimated cost of treating Alzheimer’s in the U.S. alone in 2012 is about $200 billion,” Dr. Harrison said. “By 2050 the cost of direct health care in just the U.S. for Alzheimer’s is going to be $1 trillion.”

Given the scale of the problem he suggested that anything that [...] Continue Reading…

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Games for Health Europe Conference

November 5th & 6th 2012, Amsterdam Games for Health Europe 2012 is the second annual conference that will make the gamers work hard for their HP and the doctors to gain some extra XP! The conference’s aim is bringing together medical professionals, game designers, business executive, angels, visionaries and dreamers [...] Continue Reading…

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