We, at Learnnovators, are delighted to announce the launch of ‘Surya Namaskar’, a free mobile app for Android phones. Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation, is a yoga cum exercise routine based on a sequence of gracefully linked asanas (postures).
When it comes to learning in general, maintaining social learning has always been an important part of adopting new information and transforming it into long-term knowledge. In simple words, social presence refers to all the knowledge a person accumulates by watching other people’s behavior. That’s exactly where its importance lies: If someone realizes the benefits or the consequences of some actions based on other people’s examples, we can say that he/she learnt something new through social pr
We, at Learnnovators, are delighted to announce the launch of ‘Chair Surya Namaskar’, a free mobile app for Android phones. The app is designed to help busy professionals keep themselves fit while at work. The 14 steps described in this yoga cum exercise routine are simple, and can be performed sitting on a chair. What's more, it takes less than 10 minutes to complete. You also have the option of setting alerts to remind to do the Chair Surya Namaskar at a set time every day.
In the gaming industry we usually talk about game performance as a measure of how well a system can render graphics, but in training we talk about it in terms of how well it can train! The concept, however, is germane to both, that of creating the best possible user experience. The difference is that in training games, we measure how well the game delivered training. But we are going to discuss something deeper here, the idea of the game mechanic, theme or narrative enhancing learning.
In this holiday blog post we are going to follow up on our series on holistic gamification and our last post on the problems with competition and achievement in game design. To summarize, the argument was that competition through leaderboards and badge awards dominate today’s gamification sector and that, due to a lack of imagination and transfer of research into practice, these are a default design mode.