Now is a good time to reflect on my experience with the Goblin program. I have come to the conclusion that the lessons of Goblin are most likely to influence my design of incentive and grading systems for my classes. I am not as likely to t…
This week’s material for the Goblin teaching workshop has been on “overcoming failure.” I was not able to attend the workshop in person this week but will focus on the video material and my general reactions to issues related to failure rates for…
The second week of the Goblin workshop focused on aspect of team-based learning ™ and the topic of groups in instruction, generally. I have been a group project skeptic for quite a while. In high school and undergraduate college work, gr…
The first week in GOBLIN has focused on issues related to difficulty curves and scaffolding in instructional design. I found the discussion of difficulty curves to be the most inspiring in terms of both my thoughts on game design and in…
It seems like synchronistic timing that I am about to embark on a new adventure in game design as the blog approaches 10,000 page views. My day job is as a college professor at the University of Oklahoma. The Center for Teaching Excellence …
