Cognitive benefits of video games for adult learners

When it comes to the latest trends in e-learning design, gamification keeps coming up as the optimal solution to make the content entertaining and easily remembered. But gamification is just one way to go.

Video games have evolved a lot since they first started and are today among the most popular pastimes of the modern man. If at first these games were terribly simple, they quickly became very complex immersive worlds that not only entertain and engage but do a lot for the player’s cognitive development.

Furthermore, they bring billions in revenues and have recently started to be acknowledged by the artistic community as well as a form of artistic expression. Institutions as prestigious as the Smithsonian are displaying them thus recognizing the value and importance they have in modern society.

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