ADL Immersive Technologies General Information

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ADL Immersive Technologies
So Whats This Gaming Stuff About?
James Xu Director, System Integration,
RD Advanced Distributed Learning
Initiative Office of the Secretary of Defense
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Who we are dealing with?
An arsenal of consumer electronics
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Do we understand who we are dealing with?
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Game and learning characteristic are complimentary
Key characteristics of Adult Learning
Key characteristics of games
Knowles, M. S. (1970). The modern practice of
adult education From pedagogy to andragogy.
Englewood Cliffs Prentice Hall.
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Recent Pew study finds

• 97 of 12-17 year olds play video games
• 96 of girls 12-17 play
• 98 of boys 12-17 play

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Whats in a Name?

• Guided Experiential Learning
• Tactical Decision Making Simulation
• Educational Games
• Simulation
• Virtual Reality
• Alternative Purpose Games
• Edutainment
• Digital Game-Based Learning
• Immersive Learning Simulations
• Social Impact Games
• Serious Games
• Persuasive Games
• Games for Change
• Games for Good
• Synthetic Learning Environments
• Game-Based X

• G uided
• A nimated
• M ultimedia
• E xperiential
• S ystems
• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• William
  Shakespeare

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So, does this stuff work?
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Results of three recent studies show it can work
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The generational button gap
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Is this stuff magic?
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Of course yes!
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ADDIE (ISD/SAT)
Classroom/ Paper-Based
Web
Game
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Whats in it for you or ADLs Plan to Establish
a Game-Based Learning Capability/Function
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The Basics of the ADL Game Plan

• Through a continual cycle of Discovery?Learning?Di
  ssemination, ADL Game-Based Learning endeavor to
  get the DoD Game Technology community to
  collaborate over an extended period to share
  ideas, find solutions, and build innovations.
• We will do so by focusing on five interdependent
  questions.

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Standards

• What standards might be needed to integrate game
  technology and game design into DoD Training and
  Education?
• What are the approach for using SCORM and games?
• Are there other standards besides SCROM that
  should be examined or created to help this
  process such as X3D or COLLADA from the game
  industry.
• Who would the ADL-registry play into all this?
  Registering 10 GB games as SCOs is not very
  practical. So, what could be done?

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Design Principles

• What hybrid design principles, between
  Instructional Design and Game Design, are best
  for the types of problems DoD is trying to solve
  with Game-Based Learning?
• What are the existing game-based learning design
  principles?
• For game-based learning, what approach is better?
  Instructional Design? Game Design? Both?
  Neither? A Hybrid design?
• What are the best design principles for
  game-based learning?
• How do these principles translate into best
  practices for game-based learning?

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Business Model

• What Business Model(s) is/are best to follow to
  enable the use of game technology and design that
  facilitates the DoD ADL vision?
• What problems are being solved using GBL?
• Does it work?
• What about metrics?
• Money spent
• Time-to-train
• Cost per trainee
• Training scores
• Trainee throughput, capacity, production
• How do we collaborate?
• What policies are needed?

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Communication

• How do we communicate and expand the relevance of
  game technology and design for DoD learning to a
  wider range of use efficiently and effectively?
• Briefings
• Weekly Webinar offerings
• Workshops
• Quarterly
• Standards
• Design
• Business Model
• Conference Participation
• Website

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Game Industry DNA

• How do we infuse Game Industry DNA into our game
  and simulation practices and principles and
  incent them to invest in this area so a robust
  military learning games industry emerges?
• Not academics
• Not universities
• Not engineering companies claiming to be game
  companies just because they have some technology
• Entertainment Software Association as point of
  entry
• E3 Media Business Summit
• International Game Developers Association as
  point of entry

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Questions or Comments?

• James Xu
• Director, System Integration, RD
• James.xu.ctr_at_adlnet.gov
• 1.703.575.4380