SkillsPlay Ltd.

Delighted to have been asked to speak at the #WWEM Water industry conference this year. I'm talking about innovation in technical training for this events and the importance of Serious Learning Games (SLG's). If you are interested to learn more about the SkillsPlay Ltd. innovation programme and the BrightGame SLG platform, or the event itself, please see the links in the comments! Looking forward to exploring all the new tech and catching up with friends and fellow panelists: Adam Cartwright Wez Little MIET CEng CMgr MBA Oliver Raud Oliver Grievson Peter Melville-Shreeve Michael Strahand Phillip Tomlinson MBA and many more! Please give me a shout if your attending and lets catch a coffee! :)

In the late 80’s, Forethought Inc. created a product called PowerPoint, automating the creation of overheads. The platform needed a lot of development and integration. Although initially skeptical, Bill Gates was persuaded to acquire the business, and since the late 1990s, PowerPoint's worldwide market share of presentation software has been estimated at 95%. However, using PowerPoint for vocational learning can often lead to ‘death by PowerPoint.’ A phrase first coined in 1999 …yes …25 years ago! At SkillsPlay Ltd., we believe serious learning games offer a great complimentary tool to enable applied learning and to avoid abstract academic education. We are passionate about enabling trainers and educators to collaborate, create, share and Learn together using serious games. Our platform #BrightGame allows you to create your own situational learning games using the same principles that made PowerPoint successful: ease of use, time efficiency, shareability, and the ability to integrate diverse media elements, making it easier to illustrate complex ideas and captivate the audience's attention. See www.BrightGame.com for more. We are at an early stage …like Forethought was in 1988. We need help to build use cases, create new game templates, pilot games and in developing learning content. We are interested in building our community and collaborating. We are keen to meet meet like-minded creators, game based learning enthusiasts, educators, and professional trainers. So this is an open invitation! If you think you can help us with our mission, or would like to learn more and even get involved - please get in touch! Contact details are in the comments.

Open question - who are the machine learning/ AI application / module development guru’s in the North East …any recommendations? We are seeking support for the #BrightGame initiative SkillsPlay Ltd. We are wanting to accelerate learning game creation and save educators and trainers time (while generating meaningful games and formal evidence of learning from gameplay results). Setting learning objectives is critical step in developing our games and also helps categorise games, making them easily findable within the user community. #education #innovation #edtech

Very excited that SkillsPlay Ltd. has been selected to present #BrightGame at the upcoming Creative UK ‘Backing Creative Capital’ event! Our initiative has developed so much in the past 12 months with great support from national and regional advocates. Please come and support us !!! Do you want to help: - recruiters to smash stereotypes in career engagement - businesses to retain and share vocational best practices - Tutors and trainers to increase learning impact, retention and improve applied evidence of learning Our team is creating a world first - a deep situational learning game creation platform - create and share your own situational learning games with #BrightGame!! - Your games / Your content/ Your brand - No complex setups or hardware - Low cost / collaborative platform - 8 simple steps to game creation / Easy to use tool - Multiplay / cohort management/ game scheduling / Integrate with your own LMS and tonnes more. …Are you a forward thinker ? join our #BrightGame BETA and create an easy to deploy/ play game with our studio team !!! Are you an investor…get in touch and help us make vocational education more relevant without the costs/ practicality issues of VR! Link in the comments #TechforGood #yourgames #BrightGame Creative UK North East Katie Mitchell Matthew Stafford Carol Bell OBE John Harrison Andrew C. Di Gates Louise Taylor Lucy Thompson FCIPD Veronica Swindale FCIM MCIPR NESMA Peter Chalder-Wood Jill McKinney Ashmita Randhawa, DPhil Gavin Vaughan Ben Mushen Adam Hill (FRSA) Daniel Gunn Jack Wilson Ann Watson Jon Wallis Hermina Ely Jamie Hardesty Helenna Vaughan-Smith Daniel Meredith

Looking forward to joining UK Business Angels Association & Creative UK's 'Invest in Creative - #Newcastle' event later today, alongside a fantastic panel and some standout businesses. I'll be sharing my insights and experience of investment in the creative sector. Carol Bell OBE Jordan Dargue Dawn Dunn Matthew Stafford JJ INDUSTRIES Living Archive SkillsPlay Ltd. ToneAlly Viperio. #investment #funding #creativeindustries Barclays Eagle Labs British Design Fund

Do you work in innovation? Is your industry challenged by traditional thinking and legacy processes? While an important function of vocational education, instructional learning fails students and industry. In this article, explore how game-based learning promotes different thinking and creativity. We are keen to use game-based learning to better enable the 'Double loop' and get learners to challenge assumptions. BrightGame (www.brightgame.com) - our vocational learning platform, enables you to create, share and track results from your own games! The platform is now in BETA and we are actively seeking partners to demonstrate the power of different thinking in situational learning. Let us know if you would like a demo and to discuss how to get involved...details in the comments!

SkillsPlay Ltd. is currently building a learning game for East Durham College for application in T’Level and Level 3 digital service qualifications! The game is designed to reinforce learning and to check knowledge of practical and applied processes. What makes this game unique is …it’s a BrightGame …meaning it’s editable (in seconds) shareable, multiplay and creates formal evidence of learning and progress. Better still, it's costing a fraction of a bespoke arcade or VR game build and is owned by the College. BrightGames are ideal for vocational and situation-based learning and link directly to your own learning materials, PDF’s, videos and more. See more case studies at www.BrightGame.com If you are interested in creating BrightGames branded and in your organisation's colour schemes, capturing your knowledge and content - get in touch! Contact details in the comments below!