Making games for adult learning workshops

I’ve run these workshops for quite a few years, varying from full day workshops to just a couple of hours. They are always primarily hands on and we work through a set process allowing small groups to create a rough prototype learning game by the end of the workshop, at which point all the groups share their prototype games with the rest of the room.

We cover ideas behind games and play, some benefits of using them in teaching or training adults, lots of other practical bits and pieces, then use a range of materials and a formal process to prototype games.

Attendees should leave with a clear idea of whether learning games will be appropriate for their settings and how they can use them, together with a process to follow to create a learning game afterwards (many attendees further develop their prototypes and use those).

In some of my early workshops I recorded the presentation of prototype games produced, which can be viewed on my related blog.