GameOn: Unleashing the Power of Game Design with NUR training

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Experience the excitement of game design education with the NUR team's inclusive training modules! Get inspired to bring game design into your training activities.
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Diversity through Exchange
Our target audience was a diverse group of youth workers, trainers, and teachers. We discovered that despite their varying backgrounds, they all shared a common interest in using game design for educational purposes. With a mix of youth workers and volunteers in the first training and mainly teachers with cultural operators in the second, the program was designed to be inclusive for all participants.
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Bringing Game Design to Life
The training kick-off was held online, followed by two residential modules, one in Elba island and one in Cagliari, each followed by two online modules. With the pandemic, we adapted by having two participants join online from home, which served as a unique exercise in inclusion. The training concluded with a final session to share the prototypes and evaluate the activity.
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Inclusion Takes Center Stage
Inclusion was a central theme throughout the training, starting with a group discussion on the definition of inclusion and how it's intertwined with a local context. Both groups had different experiences and perspectives, making it a valuable learning opportunity.
Practical and Beneficial Learning Playlists
We also introduced Learning Playlists as an educational tool to support the learning experience during and after the training. We designed our modules with straightforward content, simple tools, and playlists to enhance the learning experience.
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Celebrating Success
The feedback from our participants was overwhelmingly positive, with substantial interest shown in the theme of game design in both formal and non-formal education. Our training courses were flexible and adaptable to different target groups and specific contexts, making it a valuable experience for all.
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Unlock Game Design Potential
Unlock the full potential of game design in education through organising a training programme. Realise it and bring a new, engaging dimension to your educational community!
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In Partnership with GameOn
Associazione Interculturale NUR (IT) delivered and shared these training modules in the frame of the international partnership "GameOn" in collaboration with expert partners from Nexes (ES), Idealúdica (ES), Universitat de Barcelona (ES), Nectarus (LT) and BalkanIdea Novi Sad (SR).
GameOn is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
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Credits:
The NUR team wrote the original text about their training practice. Then, we used ChatGPT to improve the text, which the team finally copyedited before publishing.
Cover image: photo from the local training
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Congratulations on exploring the exciting world of game design with NUR's inclusive training modules! 
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You have unlocked ideas for game design training in education and are ready to bring a new, engaging dimension to your educational community.
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You got a taste of the diversity of a learner group that through exchange shares a common interest in using game design for education. You can see how inclusion can take centre stage in the training, as well as get hands-on experience with practical and beneficial learning playlists.
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Now you are ready to unlock your game design potential and bring your own educational training to life!

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Familiarise yourself with the training module example presented by the Nur team. Think and respond to the following questions:
Which training ideas and activities seem suitable for your context?
Which training programme sessions can you replicate in your training activities?
You can add anything else that inspires you from viewing this example.
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