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By: Almeida, F., & Buzady, Z. (2023).In: Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00472395231153187 Abstract: This study presents mainly practical implications for higher education institutions that offer courses in the entrepreneurship field, and that intend to promote the develop-ment of soft skills competencies in their students. Serious games are increasingly present in higher education and…
By: Kristina Risley, University of Westminster, London, UK [orcid: 0000-0002-4368-6175] and Zoltan Buzady Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary [orcid: 0000-0001-5553-7583] presented at GALA Games and Learning Alliance Conference, Tampere, Finland Risley, K., Buzady, Z. (2022). FLIGBY: The Serious Game Harnessing Flow Experience for Leadership Development. In: Kiili, K., Antti, K., de Rosa, F., Dindar,…
By Fernando Almeida, Zoltan Buzady (2022) In: Technology, Pedagogy and Education (Q1), March 2022.This journal is indexed in WoS (Core: 2.529) and Scopus (Q1).https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2022.2058600 Abstract Serious games have been successfully used for learning and training purposes. Traditionally serious games have been used in the development of hard skills, particularly in technical areas such as health, engineering, defense, or the environment. However,…
By: Zoltán Buzády (Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary) and Fernando Almeida (Polytechnic Institute of Gaya, Porto, Portugal)In: Informatics 2019, 6(3), 27;https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics6030027 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Gamification and Advanced Technology to Enhance Motivation in Education)Download here. ABSTRACT: Entrepreneurship is currently one of the most fundamental economic activities in the 21st century. Entrepreneurship encourages young generations to…
Let us re-share with you the post by Nina Trankova, Global Expert in Digital Communications Skills, Official Google+ Create Lead-Member and Top Contributor: “That might sound strange from a person who never played computer games at all.” The 100% individual result for such a short time (the global average time is 7h) and the metrics…
Have you ever experienced that simply just knowing every bit of your job is not enough to excel at your workplace? What else might be needed beside deep knowledge and high intelligence to experience that rewarding state of mind that described as Flow? Have you ever met people who you admired for their expertise but…
Developing leadership competencies by serious games The mission of the serious game FLIGBY is to identify, measure, and help develop leadership skills that, if applied, would help create a Flow-promoting work environment. At the Game’s end, FLIGBY provides an individual report to each player on his/her skill set, with a range of benchmarking option available.…
An edited transcript of the Forum held by CEU Business School MISSING LINK DISCOVERED: Planting Csíkszentmihályi’s Flow Theory into Management and Leadership Practice held on Monday, November 9, 2015, CEU AUDITORIUM, Budapest V, Nádor u. 9. The contributors were co-authors of the Missing Link Discovered book together with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi: Paul Marer, Prof. of Business, CEU Business School…
Excerpt from the “Missing Link Discovered” book A key task in order to build scientific measures relating to Flow-based leadership personalities and competencies was identifying the management/leadership skills that facilitate the creation and maintenance of a Flow-based organizational culture. The producers of FLIGBY did just that, in cooperation with Prof. Csikszentmihalyi. His Good Business…
Excerpt from the “Missing Link Discovered” book The essence of being in a Flow state is the matching of challenges with management/leadership skills. Whereas the skill side of this coupling has been widely researched and categorized (and is often used in everyday practice), the challenge side has been underexplored, and is uncategorized. That is…