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Adam Penenberg: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking

Natalija Knaidele02 mins

In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 12 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.

Adam Penenberg is a journalism professor at New York University, author of “Play At Work” and editor of PandoDaily, and in this seminar he talks about examples of games in non-game activities from historic methods of teaching human anatomy to modern companies gamifying training.

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Using Gamification to Attract Wide Audiences – GSummit Global Webinar

Ivan Kuo31 mins

Every marketer wants to know: how can I get my audience to do “X” ? In our third GSummit Global Webinar we brought in Karl Dunn (TBWA), Adam Penenberg (PandoDaily) and Jeff Hawley (Yamaha) to discuss their respective observations on audience engagement in this one hour session.

Moderated by yours truly, the following webinar is our third and final webinar of our GSummit Global Webinar series. Webinars for Employee Engagement and Consumer Engagement are also available at their respective links. 

If you want more GSummit Global action, our final event on the tour is taking place at Sao Paulo, Brazil on January 15, 2014.

Join us for our last stop until GSummit 2014!  

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How Game Based Learning is Making Training Better

Kevin Shane26 mins

A great deal of research has been done examining how game based learning has been used with phenomenal success in the world of education to enhance students’ learning experience and now more and more research is being done on how the corporate world is utilizing game based learning to increase job satisfaction, enhance training programs, improve productivity, increase sales, and ultimately drive profits.

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Adam Penenberg Explains How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking?

Ivan Kuo21 mins

When it comes to innovation, the gamification community is well-aware of the power of a fun game with many engaged players, like the crowdsourced AIDs research game Fold.it, for example. It’s no wonder that Pandodaily editor and NYU Professor Adam Penenberg felt compelled to write an entire book on the subject entitled Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking.

We invited Adam to come on our Gamification Revolution webshow to discuss some of his findings on the innovative power of games. Check out the full video below:

 


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Be sure to catch our next episode on Thursday, November 7 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we will feature Adweek Gamification Panelist and Boombox CEO, John Hendricks as our next guest.

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