If you’re familiar with game jams, then you know what an all out marathon they can be. If you’re not, here’s the gist: you stay up for a whole weekend planning, programming, and coding a brand new game. Oh, and you try to find time to eat and sleep (a little).
Basically, game jams are the intense way to generate new ideas for new content and new programs as fast as possible. So how does this connect to elearning? Well, they’re called training jams, and they’re game jams with an elearning twist. Training Jams keep the basic structure of game jams, but instead of creating a general game developers create a training course. The course, complete with learning objectives and other familiar elearning elements, covers a specific area of training such as fire safety, harassment, or workplace communication.