The Game Agency

MARCH 10, 2020

Join us to learn how you can add games in Microsoft PowerPoint for increased learner engagement and knowledge retention. We’ll showcase practical examples of how companies have used games to create more engaging PowerPoint presentations. See examples from both instructor-led training (ILT) and online learning. You’ll take home actionable tips for using this strategy in your next PowerPoint project.

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The Game Agency

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Originally featured in Forbes on Feb 3, 2020. A combination of a college-focused society and negative attitudes about vocational careers has driven some sectors into recruitment turmoil in recent years. As the baby boomer generation ages and reaches retirement, manufacturing , construction , and transportation companies have struggled to hire young new talent.

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The Game Agency

JANUARY 8, 2020

Originally featured in Forbes, Jan 8, 2020. Can you think of a job opportunity you were excited about? You probably envisioned yourself in the role, but like so many others, you were concerned about the interview process, sitting face-to-face with a hiring manager to discuss your history and where you plan to be in five years. There’s nothing more stressful than being eyed with scrutiny.

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The Game Agency

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The beauty of The Training Arcade® is once you’ve created a game with your training content. You can launch the game and publish it anywhere! Here are 10 ways you can publish and deploy the game for maximum training effectiveness. 1. EXPORT YOUR GAME TO YOUR LMS. Export the games as a SCORM package (SCORM 1.2 or 2004) and load into your Learning Management System (LMS).

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Employee training is expensive and, often, the return on investment (ROI) doesn’t exist. The Association for Talent Development (ATD) estimates that companies spent an average of $1,273 per year per employee on training. However, without “practical follow-up or meaningful assessments,” learners lose 90% of the skills they learn in those training programs.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Stamford, CT – September 5, 2019 – The Game Agency has been named to the 2019 Top Training Companies List for the training delivery sector of the learning and development market. Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares the Training Industry Top 20 and Training Industry Watch List reports on critical sectors of the training marketplace to better inform professionals about the best and most innovative providers of training services

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Employee training is expensive and, unfortunately, the return on investment (ROI) doesn’t often exist. In 2016, the Association for Talent Development (ATD) estimated that companies spent an average of $1,273 per employee on training. However, Eduardo Salas, a professor of organizational psychology at the University of Central Florida, has found that without “practical follow-up or meaningful assessments,” learners lose 90% of the skills they learn in those training programs.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Gaming can never get boring regardless of your age, however finding the time do so in your busy schedules today, can be a challenge. Well, how about you have a little fun while you are at work or maybe make school more interesting by making learning fun. With thoughts on the same lines three master minds came together, to create something unique. Stephen Baer, Richard Lowenthal and Joseph McDonald decided to make a spectacular change in daily life by adding in a different dimension of fun to it.

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The Game Agency

AUGUST 29, 2019

The health care industry is made up of highly skilled, highly schooled, high-cost, in-demand professionals who are responsible for making life-and-death decisions. Consequently, their training is best in class and can serve as a model for all other industries. Ever since Dr. James Rosser Jr. used a PlayStation to improve his surgical accuracy, the idea of games to improve clinical interventions has been of great interest to the industry.

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The Game Agency

JULY 29, 2019

Stamford, CT – July 30, 2019 – The Game Agency has been named to the 2019 Top Training Companies List for the gamification sector of the learning and development market for the third year in a row. Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares the Training Industry Top 20 and Training Industry Watch List reports on critical sectors of the training marketplace to better inform professionals about the best and most innovative providers of

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The Game Agency

JUNE 30, 2019

Want to improve your employee’s soft skills? The most effective way to do so is through game-based training. Games provide a fun and safe environment to learn, practice, fail, and ultimately master critical skills. But not all games are created equal. This article outlines a variety of solutions. Soft Skills Training: Everything You Need To Know About Training Employees.

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The Game Agency

JUNE 18, 2019

Stamford, CT June 18, 2019: The Game Agency (TGA) wins 3 International Serious Play Awards for a series of K-12 Educational games recently released across North America. TGA won 1 Gold award and 2 Silver in the categories of Cognitive Skills, K-12 Education and Social and Emotional Learning. The Gold award was in the Cognitive Skills category and went to Endeavor Healthcare , a game that gives middle school students a way to practice their investigation and deduction skills while also learning a

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The Game Agency

APRIL 2, 2019

The Official Jeopardy! Training Game is Now Available in The Training Arcade®. Culver City, Calif. , April 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Jeopardy! Productions and The Game Agency, LLC announce the release of the only “official” Jeopardy! training game in the world. The training game follows the classic rules and all the fun of America’s Favorite Quiz Show® with rounds for Jeopardy!

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The Game Agency

MAY 29, 2019

Stephen Baer, Managing Partner of The Game Agency discusses how to gamify content quickly with Alexander Salas of ATD. The post How to Gamify Off-the-Cuff appeared first on The Game Agency.

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The Game Agency

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Feb 26th, 2019. Training Magazine’s Training Conference 2019, Stephen Baer, Managing Partner at The Game Agency presents “Using Games to Make Your Training More Meaningful, Motivational, and Memorable” in Orlando, Florida. . The post Using Games to Make Your Training More Meaningful. appeared first on The Game Agency.

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The Game Agency

MARCH 11, 2019

March 11th, 2019. eLearning Brothers Academy Learning Series Webinar 2019 (ELBX), Stephen Baer presents “Why Gamify Your Learning.” Are you looking to engage your learners and encourage them to embrace your training material on a deeper level? Do you want them to lean in until they know your content as well as you do? If so, game-based training is the answer.

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The Game Agency

MARCH 15, 2019

March 15th, 2019. eLearning Brothers Academy Learning Series Webinar 2019 (ELBX), Stephen Baer presents “The ROI of Gaming.” . There’s a lot of buzz about game-based learning. But what exactly is it and why are companies doing it? In this webinar, we will present a variety of game-based training case studies, identifying the goals, the creative and the ROI.

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The Game Agency

APRIL 4, 2019

Tax Refunds: Traditional vs Behavioral Economics Explained. (And Why That Matters for Game Learning Systems) by Julia Keren-Detar. Ever wonder how instructional designers create training games that really work? It’s part game design knowledge and a lot of behavioral psychology. Cognitive bias is something we think about often. It’s very important to understand how cognitive bias work.

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The Game Agency

APRIL 2, 2019

Last week The Game Agency won “Best of Show” at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions DemoFest. This lively science fair-like event showcased over 40 custom eLearning solutions. Attendees were encouraged to walk from table to table to speak to the creators of each project about the design, technology, and process behind them. The Game Agency presented The Endeavor Healthcare course, designed to teach middle school students about careers in the healthcare industry.

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The Game Agency

MARCH 5, 2019

Generation Z refers to the group born between 1995 and 2010 and currently represents the largest population sector. They make up about 24% of the population (compared to Millennials representing about 22%, Gen X at 19% and Baby Boomers at 23%). It’s estimated that Gen Z is at approximately 2.52 billion! Many of them have graduated from college and are looking for employment.

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The Game Agency

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Cybersecurity is still one of the biggest challenges companies face today and one of the top priorities for CEOs in 2019. Aside from a strong firewall, the most important way to prevent future attacks is to train employees. They’re often the ones responsible for letting a hacker access private data. According to Cisco’s 2018 annual report , 65% of email is spam, 8% of which is malicious.

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The Game Agency

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Raleigh, NC – February 7, 2019 – Training Industry today announced that The Game Agency has been selected as part of the 2019 Top Training Companies lists for the Authoring Tools sector of the learning and development market. Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares the Training Industry Top 20 and Training Industry Watch List reports on critical sectors of the training marketplace to better inform professionals about the best and

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The Game Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

The Game Agency Creates Custom Game-Based Solutions To Help Complement Training Initiatives And Improve Learning Outcomes. Q: Stephen, can you tell us something more about The Game Agency? A: The Game Agency is a software development company focused on building game-based solutions that make K-College and corporate training more effective. We help learners connect better with training material and we turn educators into heroes powering them with fun and analytics.

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The Game Agency

JANUARY 7, 2019

Becoming A Training Games Hero: How To Enhance Your Curriculum With Interactive Games. Most people are champions of curiosity and thrive on imagination, exploration, competition, and rewards. It just so happens that each of these adjectives align well with the fundamentals of training games. Games have been around for thousands of years and have consistently engaged learners with content on a much deeper level than passive instruction (lectures, videos, reading, etc.).

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The Game Agency

JULY 2, 2018

Mobile Gaming is and will continue to disrupt the L&D industry. M-Learning allows training to be readily available anywhere and everywhere. Training is at the tip of your fingers and here is why that’s important: The post Why Mobile Learning Is The Future appeared first on game.

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The Game Agency

JULY 29, 2018

Game-based training transforms traditional learning from a passive experience into an active experience. Through play, points, badges, leaderboards and rewards, users engage at a much higher level. The study “A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Instructional Effectiveness of Computer-Based Simulation Games” found that simulation game-based training results in 20% higher self-efficiency, 9% greater retention, 11% greater declarative knowledge and 14% greater procedural knowledge than i

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The global e-sports industry has exploded, with revenues from competitive online gaming expected to reach $906 million this year. Meanwhile, the popular game Fortnite has made more than $1 billion since it was released almost a year ago, and the World Heath Organization added “gaming disorder” to its International Classification Diseases this summer.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Motivation and engagement are key considerations when designing professional development materials. With their years of experience in e-learning services, Moodle Partner eThink Education are rapidly becoming the go-to people for anyone needing help with in-house training. The company recently announced an exciting partnership with The Game Agency.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Game Agency is excited to share footage from Fox 5’s Good Day New York segment about The Training Arcade and how corporations are using training games to improve their learning outcomes. The post The Training Arcade on Fox 5: Good Day New York appeared first on game.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Pharmaceutical sales requires a different level of expertise. As the main point of contact between your organization and healthcare providers, it’s imperative that sales reps have depth of knowledge in combination with top notch sales skills to represent your brand effectively. Reps need to understand the business of medicine and the mind-set of their customers in order to provide greater value and make an impact.

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The Game Agency

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Your learning and development (L&D) department could currently be engaged in a game of Whack-a-Mole with real dollars, not to mention your employees’ time, patience and behavior. I should know. For more than a decade I have been building game-based solutions to help make training more effective. Successful training builds confident and competent people who do the right thing at the right time.

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The Game Agency

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Raleigh, NC – October 25, 2018 – Training Industry today announced that The Game Agency has been selected for inclusion in the Training Industry Top 20 list for the Gamification sector of the learning and development market. Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares Training Industry Top 20 and Training Industry Watch List reports on critical sectors of the training marketplace, to better inform professionals about the best and most

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The Game Agency

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

EverFi & The Game Agency Win “Best of Show” at ELearning Guild’s 2018 DevLearn DemoFest for The Creation of the Compassion Project. Last week the eLearning Guild recognized EverFi, an innovative education technology company and The Game Agency, an educational software developer with the “Best of Show” award for the creation of The Compassion Project, a game-based course created to provide educators with the tools they need to teach and reinforce concepts such as compassion, empathy, and mind

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The Game Agency

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

by Stephanie Ivec. Karl Kapp , Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University and Stephen Baer , Managing Partner of The Game Agency, joined forces to present an engaging, interactive session at this year’s DevLearn Expo. Did you know that employee training expenses in North America exceed $70 billion each year?

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