Panel Talk SOL53
Student + Gamification = Engagement? I
Date Friday, Dec 4 Time – RoomCheck
Discover how educators are using gamification strategies to grow skills and abilities and make learning and development more engrossing, engaging and — yes— fun! The panel in this session will continue the discussion after the break.
Roberto Alvarez
Project Manager, Multimedia Unit at IE Business School, Spain
Gamification: Learning vs. Engagement aka Boring Knowledge or Empty Showbiz, where is the Tradeoff?
Roberto works in Madrid as a Project Manager at IE Publishing, where along with a team of programmers, designers, audiovisual professionals and academic staff he creates learning materials for subjects across business areas such as Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Information Systems & Technologies among others. Roberto has a Computer Engineering major from Universidad Simon Bolivar and a Master in Business Administration degree at IESA, both in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Emilie Buisine
Audiovisual Production Officer, IÉSEG - School of Management, France
Going Creative: How to Keep Learners’ Engagement in a MOOC Environment?
Emilie Buisine is from a creative background, in video mostly.
She has studied arts and video production in France and Australia. She has worked in both the private and public production fields.
Active in the audio-visual organisations environment in the North of France, she produces many videos formats, from fiction to music videos and interviews, with her own organisation, Chtisfilms creation.
She’s now a full-time employee at IÉSEG. Her work at the CETI, which is IÉSEG Centre for educational and technological innovation, is to produce quality videos for educational purposes for the professors of the school, but also to reflect and research on video production for instructional purposes.
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Jochen Kranzer
Managing Partner, ovos media, Austria
Learnings on Game-Based Learning
Jochen Kranzer, DI is managing partner and head of game design at OVOS realtime3D . Back in the days, he produced an award-winning installation for his master’s degree in architecture, building a virtual 3D Environment of an ancient city plaza where the user could travel in time. A game aficionado, intrigued by game technology since the age of 13, he eventually made his real passion a profession. Today, Jochen masterminds most games and interactive concepts and products at OVOS and developed a deep passion for playfull learning experiences. He designed and led the development of "Ludwig", "Lern Deutsch", the "ovos play Gamedesigner" and many more. In his spare time, he teaches game design at FH Hagenberg and TUW, drives his old VW Bus and plays with his little son.
Moderator
Peter Isackson
Managing Director, Skillscaper, USA & Learnscaper, France
Peter Isackson has worked in France for over 30 years as a consultant, trainer, coach and trainer of trainers. A prolific author, producer and publisher of a wide range of multimedia and e-learning products, he has acquired a reputation as a pioneer in the use of new technology in training, collaborating with multiple publishers in Europe and the US. He has authored programs on sales techniques, foreign languages, intercultural skills, team management and sustainable development.
He is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SkillScaper, proposing next generation authoring tools, methods and content for learning in a Web 2.0 context.
In 1995 Peter Isackson was a member of the steering committee that founded Online Educa Berlin. He is an expert with the European Commission in the area of TEL (technology enhanced learning).