Digital Game-Based Learning, or simply, "gamification," offers educators, speakers, and managers a more engaging method of presenting and teaching information.
Digital Game-Based Learning is perfect for training employees on a multitude of topics, ensuring understanding of company policies, promoting attentiveness in important meetings, and even making a larger and more unique impact at the next sales pitch or proposal. The method works because it has a higher level of engagement, an interactive learning process, and it is put together in a highly contextual way. This allows participants to make connections to the information in ways not possible through other more traditional means. This is an easy to comprehend method for incorporating fun and substance into any meeting, training session, or presentation.
Gamification is beneficial in training sessions to see where employees are struggling and which employees are proficient in policies or procedures. Policies can be reviewed with quiz games and employees may even be given incentives to study beforehand with a reward for the winning team or top-scoring individual. Games are proven to hold attention more effectively than other presentation mediums for information; this keeps attendees engaged and entertained to help boost their retention and comprehension of the presented information.
A sales pitch may often come across as dry or overly-rehearsed; adding in a quiz about little or unknown product facts and traits can feel much more organic and make the clients more interested in other things they may not already know about the product. This may increase the relationships between buyer and seller and buyer and product to increase likelihood of a sale.
In order to meet these needs in a manner most convenient for the consumer, Option Technologies provides an add-on for their Audience Response System. The add-on, OptionPower Group Competition Module, allows the consumer to add interactive questions or group competition games to PowerPoint presentations to enhance participant focus and promote peer interactions. Three PowerPoint game show templates are provided through the add-on: Win a Million, similar to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire;" And the Answer is..., which is comparable to "Jeopardy;" and The Quiz Challenge, which resembles the "College Bowl" game.
These interactive presentation games are designed to be simple to customize and play while incorporating invaluable information to keep engagement and informational retention high. Effectively, this allows the creation of Jeopardy PowerPoints or Who Wants to be a Millionaire PowerPoints; these may serve a variety of purposes, like sales training games or leadership training games.
Option Technologies provides cost-effective methods for implementing game-based learning into presentations. Costs can be avoided depending on whether an audience response system is rented or purchased and how many add-ons or keypads are required for each customer's project. This add-on becomes interactive through the use of Option Technologies Interactive's audience response system. The audience response system uses wireless keypads for participants to input their responses to questions designed by the client. Then, all responses are saved for the client to review later or immediately following response submissions. The client has the ability to view which questions are missed most frequently and identify those struggling.
The PowerPoint game templates may be edited quickly to allow the client to make last minute changes to substance of the questions if a new topic of concern arises prior to the meeting. This provides more flexibility than some other game-based learning systems or software and becomes a simple way to develop a training game for employees. This system is also fully integrated into PowerPoint to keep the learning curve at a minimum, as many are already familiar with the way that PowerPoint runs through previous experiences. It is also designed to be as simple as possible for participants so that time is not wasted at the start of the meeting. Users simply hit the button on the keypad that corresponds to the answer they believe is correct on the screen. There are many versions of the keypads to ensure that users are comfortable and that the system of interactive PowerPoint games is affordable.
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