Susan El-ShamyTraining Games
Everything You Need to Know about Using Games to Reinforce Learning
Susan El-Shamy is Senior partner at Advancement Strategies, Inc., a training and development resources company in Bloomington, Indiana, and an award-winning designer of games and interactive group learning products. She has delivered training programs nationally and internationally for companies including Motorola, Mattel, Corning and Thomson Consumer Electronics. She is a regular guest lecturer at the Indiana University School of Business, and a frequent speaker at national training conferences.
Introduction, Part I What's in a game? 1 Lets play a Game, History and
Definitions of Games 2. IT'S NOT WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE Learning Theory
and Training Games 3 BIG GAME HUNTING, Types of Training Games 4 IT'S HOW
YOU PLAY THE GAME Electronic Training Games 5 THE GAME KEEPER Choosing and
Using Training Games 6 LET HE GAMES BEGIN Examples and Illustrations: Game
1: Word Search for Effective Feedback Game 2· The Top Ten Game 3. Future
Flash Game 4: E-mail Brainstorming Game 5: Diversity Bingo 7 Getting
Started with Training Games 8 GAMES GALORE Resources, List of Games, Web
Sites
