How to learn through serious games? cooperate culture #24 with Dr. Johannes Katsarov

In this episode of cooperate culture, I spoke with Dr. Johannes Katsarov. Johannes is an Ethicist, Educational Scientist and Serious Game Designer. Currently, he is the Head of the Serious Game Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany and manages a team in diverse game-based education initiatives.With Johannes, we discussed what serious games are, why it makes so much sense to play in educational contexts, and how to create impactful learning experiences. We shared stories about excessive board games during ski trips, childhood memories of collecting Pokemon, and dangerous experiments using skateboards as catapults. Johannes explained the downsides of passive learning in conventional education and outlined four scientific aspects that make for effective playful learning. We talked about the importance of failure, how to make serious people play, and how do be generally more playful our everyday lives. And by the end of our conversation, it became obvious to me that playing does not only make many of our life problems easier to handle - it also makes everything we do a lot more fun.If you want to know more about serious games and the work that Johannes is doing, you can connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkatsarov/.This podcast is brought to you by emtsev cooperation. Are you ready to make work a better place? Visit www.emtsev.com to get started.