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Accessibility + Corporate + Education

Accessibility In Digital Learning Games – Why Is It Relevant?

17 May 2023

Many companies are discussing ESG right now. Inclusion, diversity, and accessibility play a big role in this as well. Taking accessibility into account can have a positive effect on your business or organisation in many ways. Read the blog to find out more about the importance of accessibility and how you can make your digital learning games more accessible and thus promote equality.

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Corporate + Recruitment

Recruit With A Game!

10 May 2023

If adding gamification to recruitment process seems like a glued on addition, this post will give you something to think about. The benefits gamification can offer to this process have nothing glued on in them.

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Gamification + onboarding

Gamified Onboarding – Best Practices

27 Apr 2023

Onboarding is a crucial part of the employee experience. It sets the foundations for the start of one's employment at an organization. Therefore, it is not at all insignificant, how you execute the onboarding plan of a new employee. If you are ready to do things differently, consider gamification.

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Employee engagement + Gamification

What Do Constructive Learning Theory & A Gamification Tool Have in Common?

2 Apr 2023

A lot of our users are teachers. Therefore, we thought it would be useful to connect different Seppo features with different pedagogical theories and frameworks to show you how indeed, Seppo has a place in the educational world. It is not just gamification for the sake of gamification.

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Active Learning + Employee engagement

Changing the Mindset to Active Learning

2 Apr 2023

Learning does not end after graduation from university. It continues throughout working life. Lifelong learning is of great importance, especially because many employees feel their studies didn’t prepare them enough for working life. Therefore, the importance of corporate training is growing.

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Employee engagement + Gamification

How To Use Gamification at Work To Engage and Motivate Employees

19 Mar 2023

Have you ever been participating in corporate training and had problems focusing - feeling rather bored and sleepy? Or have you been training employees yourself and noticed how hard it can be to keep people on board and motivated? Then gamification might be just what you’re looking for! Gamification helps to motivate and engage people. You want to find out how and why gamification has that effect. Then the following text will help you shed some light on that.

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feedback + Gamification + Learning games

How to Give Feedback in Learning Games? – Best Practices and Why Feedback Is Important

17 Mar 2023

In this article, our Head of Game Production, Santeri discusses the importance of giving feedback. Thinking about how and why you give feedback in learning games is an important aspect of the creation process - The way you give feedback has a major impact on the players' experience. Read more!

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game design + Gamification

Game Design – How to Design a Learning Game

15 Aug 2022

Gamification works and is here to stay. Thanks to new technologies, it can be done more easily than before and with a lower threshold. But how do you design a game? What should you take into consideration and where do you start?

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Recruitment

Successful Recruitment

28 Jun 2022

Recruitment is expensive and time-consuming. Surely you do not want all of that effort and money wasted, do you? In this article, we discuss how to achieve successful recruitment. So keep reading! Especially if you want to invest in recruitment, find the best employees, and get them to stay at their job for as long as possible.

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Gamification

What Is Gamification? – Examples and How to Make the Most out of It

24 May 2022

Many think that gamification is just all fun and games, which is not really true. Gamification always aims at improving user engagement, experience, or to activate, depending a bit on the target. Fun can be one element added to this, but it should never be the main goal.

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onboarding

Employee Onboarding – How to Do It Right?

28 Apr 2022

Imagine a situation, where your company is hiring many new employees at once, and next comes the onboarding process. You have reserved people to help with the new hires, but they run out of time to have an in-depth onboarding before the new staff has to get to work. The onboarding is not completed…

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Agile Workplace + Gamification

4 Reasons Gamification is at the Heart of Agile Workplace Learning

21 Jan 2022

How can organizations meet their business objectives and develop the competence and skills of their workforce in an efficient and motivating way is a key question many HR professionals are facing today. An answer may lie in combining the framework of agile learning with web-based gamification tools.

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