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Excerpt from Marc Prensky's Digital Game-Based Learning

Content	Examples	Learning activities	possible game styles
Facts	Laws. policies, product specifications	questions memorization association drill	game show competition, flashcard type games, mnemonics, action, sports games
Skills	Interviewing, teaching selling, running a machine, project management	Imitation: Feedback coaching, continuous practice, increasing challenge	persistent state games, role-play games, adventure games, strategy games
Judgment	Management decisions, timing, ethics, hiring	Reviewing cases asking questions making choices (practice) feedback coaching	role-play games, detective games, multiplayer interaction, adventure games, strategy games
Behaviors	Supervising exercising self‑control setting examples	Imitation feedback coaching practice	role playing games
Theories	Marketing rationales, how people learn	Logic, Experimentation, questioning	Open ended simulate games Building games Construction games Reality testing games
Reasoning	Strategic and tactical thinking, quality analysis	problems, examples	puzzles
Process	Auditing, strategy creation	system analysis and deconstruction, Practice	strategy games, adventure games, simulation games
Procedures	Assembly, bank teller Legal procedures	Imitation, Practice	timed games, reflex games
Creativity	Invention, product design	play memorization	puzzles, invention games
Language	acronyms, foreign languages, business or professional jargon	imitation, continuous practice, immersion	role playing games, reflex games, flashcards games
Systems	health care, markets, refineries	understanding principles, graduated tasks, playing in microworlds	simulation games
Observation	moods, morale, inefficiencies, problems	observing, feedback	concentration games, adventure games
Communication	appropriate language, timing, involvement	imitation, practice	role playing games, reflex games

Among the interactive learning techniques
that have already been used in Digital Game‑Based Learning are

Practice and feedback

Learning by doing

Learning from mistakes

Goal-oriented learning

Discovery learning and "guided
discovery"

Task‑based learning

Question‑led learning

Role playing

Coaching

Constructivist learning

Accelerated (multisense) learning
Selecting from learning objects
Intelligent tutoring

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