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	<title>Comments on: Gaming Beyond Entertainment</title>
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		<title>By: Jari Laru</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jari Laru]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to introduce one different kind category of serious gaming - team building and leadership training games.

Our product, NoviCraft is a multiplayer 3D game developed for teambuilding and leadership training. It is an  awareness tool for trainers, HRD specialists and consultants for assessing, building, and developing leaders, teams and team work in various organizations.

Through the NoviCraft training, we aim to increase individual’s awareness of the social aspects of the team work. Promoting awareness of team processes is essential, since there is more to learning than content knowledge. People may not learn to interact in productive ways just by doing collective work—many times, coaching in how to participate in effective collaboration and problem-solving is needed. It has been found that language plays a crucial role in learning, and for effective learning it is important to encourage participants to engage in certain ways of discussion and collaborative talk.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to introduce one different kind category of serious gaming &#8211; team building and leadership training games.</p>
<p>Our product, NoviCraft is a multiplayer 3D game developed for teambuilding and leadership training. It is an  awareness tool for trainers, HRD specialists and consultants for assessing, building, and developing leaders, teams and team work in various organizations.</p>
<p>Through the NoviCraft training, we aim to increase individual’s awareness of the social aspects of the team work. Promoting awareness of team processes is essential, since there is more to learning than content knowledge. People may not learn to interact in productive ways just by doing collective work—many times, coaching in how to participate in effective collaboration and problem-solving is needed. It has been found that language plays a crucial role in learning, and for effective learning it is important to encourage participants to engage in certain ways of discussion and collaborative talk.</p>
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