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Gamification, Innovation and Higher Education.

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The State of the Ecosystem - Amarit Charoenphan - BangkokStartup.com

Interview with Amarit Charoenphan about HUBBA Co-Working Space an the Thai Startup Ecosystem.

Aim & HUBBA are currently the centre of the Bangkok #Startup Community. Within a year it has grown quickly and a lot of excitement is in the community. Just last week Geeks on a Plane came to #Bangkok, we have now 3 accelerator programs, several co-working spaces and a couple of very sexy startups. You should definitely keep your eyes on #Bangkok and Thailand in general.

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Interview with Rob Zepeda, CEO of Playbasis. A Gamification Startup in Thailand.

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A Game to learn Entrepreneurship

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Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the ‘Knowledge Economy’

More than a High Score: Videogames and learning

Social Psychology

Aboriginal Worldviews and Education

E-Learning and Digital Cultures

I’ve signed up for 3!

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I’m taking the one on Gamification (starts Monday).

It’d be cool if there were a Tumblr Teacher Cohort that went ahead and did this together *coughcoughcough*

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I’m doing gamification also! I took Design and Artefacts in Society last year and that really set the standard for me. In the mean time reading Reality is Broken By Jane McGonigal which is phenomenal just by the way

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Actually quite true, I signed up for the latest Gamification class,  Video Games & Learning, and E-Learning and Digital Cultures. Doubt I'll have the time for the exercises but will sure watch the lectures

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BangkokStartup.com will launch soon. We are very excited to be the first English speaking news/blog to only focus on the Thai Startup Scene  Lots of interesting & inspiring stories, I promise you that.

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Learn kerning playing a game. Best played on Ipad.

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I wrote a post about my recent experience with gamification and education for the playbasis blog. 

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Simple App to find Blood Donors

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Gamified digitial keyboard lessons offer performance feedback in real-time

Learning to play an instrument can be difficult and time consuming – especially for adults – and it takes a lot of patience to stick with it. While innovations such as Now Play It have aimed to sustain engagement with video tutorials from pop stars, Playground Sessions uses a gamified approach to digital learning for piano players to encourage them to keep going, with real-time analysis of progress. READ MORE…

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Busy networking week. Just posted the Founders Drinks, which reminded me of the meetup today. So here it is:

Today's topic at Jeremie's Meetup is Gamification and my friend Rob is the guy presenting. Should be fun. Meetup will be at Launchpad, one of Bangkok's few co-working spaces. 

If you have never been, it's worth checking out. The Coffee shop upfront is excellent too.

Tomorrow morning is the iklub event with Bruno Laporte (World Bank Institute) at the Novotel Siam. Still open for registrations. Free, for first timers - but lunch buffet is only included for those who are iklub members. In the evening Bruno will be at Bangkok University (6 to 9) and give another free talk. Registration here.

Wednesday night Munich will trash Arsenal in the CL, which will ruin my sleep and subsequently the Thursday morning class - anyway. Thursday evening is the already mentioned Founders Drinks.

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I'm going to the Founders Drinks on Thursday at Enchanted Bar / J Avenue, Thonglor.  I assume "everybody" will be there. A good way to catch up. Looking forward to it.

Some more details

Founders Drinks, co-organized by e27 and HUBBA Coworking Spaces, is a monthly evening event series held in Singapore and across Southeast Asia cities. The focus of this event series is to inspire, engage and connect technology startup communities across Southeast Asia. Each particular session and locale will experience a night of sharing and networking with leading movers and shakers of the tech startup industry.

Our theme this time is simple: There is a lot of hype in Thai startups and most issues revolve around the disbelief that some startups in Thailand can make money or not after raising big rounds and high valuations. Founders Drinks BKK this time will tackle this myth heads on with real case studies on how to make Thai startups profitable. Our event speakers will share their experiences in user acquisition & getting traction, growth hacking and monetization of startups that are crucial components in attracting angel and VC fundings, as well as turning a startup into a sustainable long-term business.

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Business Model Innovation and Customer Co-Creation

My colleague Stavros Sindakis and I will give a one day seminar in Bangkok at the Novotel Siam on April 10th on Business Model Innovation and Co-Creation. The seminar(s) are part of a two day workshop on Innovation Management and Knowledge Management, as part of the iklub. 

The second day features Strategic Knowledge Management (morning) and Action Learning (afternoon).

The price for both days is 25.000THB. On top of nice content, you'll get nice food, meet nice people and get a one year membership at the iklub. 

Discounts are available for folks working at NGOs, universities or for the government. If you bring two of your colleagues with you, you receive a corporate discount 2 for 3. You have to work for the same company/ organization to get the discount.

Prepare for lots of fun and many post its. 

Ah yes, registration here.

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Gamified Grading

I'm currently teaching an Entrepreneurship Class in the UG at Bangkok University. I use the Business Model Canvas and more or less (actually less than more) follow Steve Blanks, Startup Owners Manual. Get out of the Building. That kind of stuff. 

I have 40 students each semester. Most of them are in their third year of their entrepreneurship major. Some are exchange students from Europe and Korea, but the majority is Thai. About 30% foreigners, 70% Thai.

Unlike in Steve Blank's class, I don't have the option to choose my students, I have to take whoever applies. My class is also a  requirement for graduation, which means that several students are just in because they need to. As a result they are late, not participating, or not showing up at all - till the exam. 

That makes group work challenging to facilitate because you will often have one or two people that work for the rest of the group. 

I'm also not a big believer in exams. Very often you have never applied the knowledge your drilled into your brain. Will you ever go back and apply it before you forget it? As an UG student, chances are high that you won't. So I don't have exams, only projects.

These problems let me to Gamification. I love games a lot, and they deserve to be praised for keeping me away from my school books. We hosted Echelon Ignite, Thailands first Startup Conference, in November 2012 and Rob Zepeda pitched his Startup Playbasis. Playbasis develops a Gamification platform on which you can build your own gamified software. He is very knowledgeable and passionate about gamification, and we ended up discussing a possible application of gamification methods in education. Rob totally understood the challenges teachers go through. He had previously taught himself and his family is full of teaching professionals. 

Long story short: we ended up working together, creating a way to implement gamification in the classroom.

I'm now in my sixth week of gamified teaching and it starts to get interesting. I actually don't have to ask for feedback anymore, instead students ask me "what can I do to get more points" very interesting. However, I will have to do a warp up of the previous weeks & pre-weeks in order to explain how I actually designed the course. And of course, continue to observe.

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Nolan Bushnell on Gamification and Education.