True Believers: Digital Game-Based Learning in the Military
By Marc Prensky

Joy sticks and buzzers. It may seem like all fun and games, but the U.S. military is using game-based learning to get young recruits ready for almost everything.

Business people are slowly "getting it." Schools get it here and there. But the U.S. military gets it big time. The military has embraced digital game-based learning with all the fervor of true believers. Why? Because it works for them. And trust me, the guys in charge of training at the Pentagon are a very sharp group. They have seen and evaluated everything.

"We're a few standard deviations ahead of most, including those in the industry, yet most people don't know who we are," says Michael Parmentier, head of the Readiness and Training unit at the Department of Defense.

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Jim Kiggens:  Digital Game-Based Training Simulations Webcast Recording (MEI Statewide Faculty Online Training Workshop 2007)

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Serious Games for Training Simulations Resources

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