Long back when I was teaching... and was Admin for an online course in Banking... the LMS course designed by the HR and experts in Banking used Games to teach the Importance of Being Cautious with money belonging to Bank's customers...
The course work had interspaces where games, cartoons and fun facts were inserted with interesting formats...
This method put the Onus of teaching on the Design of the course...
The entire coursework was designed to capture and hold a student's interest...
I was consulted just once about a Doubt... the coursework very adroitly Supplanted the need of a Professor...
That LMS course had me researching into various free courses offered by the industry and I started reading about... academia and industry interface...
It showed me the potential of online courses and I saw a potential for reducing the cost of academics by adding such courses as electives
Additionally such courses reduced TAT is the turn around time needed for students who are employed soon after College...
The training time needed for students who had completed courses provided by the industry tends to be negligible...
Employability of graduates increases with the addition of industry academia interface programs and unemployment of graduates reduces...
The bottom line is Games and Play being the Best Way to Teach students at All Levels right upto the PG level...
Few times a month I would use the Game CDs to give my regular BCom students a break from Regular lectures and would use the Games to cover topics with a fun method... during such classes... the entire class would participate as it was a Unique approach to teaching at the Undergraduate level...
Designing coursework to Retain the interest of the students also helps with improving the Dropout rate...
The LMS course proved one thing... Play is the Best Way to Teach, Learn and Retain what was taught...
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