Carrot Rewards From Down Under Move over, Bugs Bunny! There is a new rabbit in the land down under. His name is Buck, and he is the star of EB World, which is the customer loyalty program of EB Games in Australia. According to the company, Buck is a “loudmouth, cheeky bunny”. As the hero of…
What do you get when you cross a maverick historian, a tech legend, and game based learning techniques? You get The Big History Project, a revolutionary online initiative that challenges the way history is traditionally taught.
The online project, formerly only available to educators, is backed by Microsoft and championed by Bill Gates himself, is in its third year and is being used in over 100 schools across eight countries.
Alzheimer’s Australia Vic has opened up Australia’s first dementia learning center to educate people about the effects of dementia through virtual-reality simulations, according to Australian Ageing Agenda.
The simulation’s primary goal is allow students to envision the cognitive and perceptual difficulties that dementia sufferers deal with in their daily life routines.
Online travel site Expedia.au has partnered with 5 agencies to produce Australia’s largest gamification project called Tag Me if You Can. The project is an international scavenger hunt that invites players to follow Australian reality-TV star Nathan Joliffe‘s secret location through a series of videos and clues. If players are able to tag Joliffe’s location on a map…
Gamification is picking up steam in Australia. To provide more opportunities for our antipodean friends to get involved in the movement, we’re pleased to announce some speaking events and Gamification workshops taught by Gabe Zichermann. On March 15 come hear Gabe speak on the future of fun at RMIT’s GEElab event in Melbourne. RSVP now….
