Games Institute Austria - Digital Game Based Learning

What you can expect

CONSULTING

Your products combined with the power, the motivation and the fun of Games

FACILITATION

With us, you can learn how to implement the superpowers of Play

LEARNING

Learning for the 21^st century individual, interactive, skill-based

PD-TRAINING

Training unlike any other form of professional development – open-ended, collaborative, motivating, rich and responsive

COMMUNICATION

Tap into the power of Games and communicate everything, no matter how complex, abstract, emotional or demanding.

Facebook Group

Play to learn

The Facebook Group started more than three years ago.

It is a network and a news forum for people working in or interested in Game-Based Learning and a group of friendly, well-mannered and educated people discussing potentially all things Games culture and its effects on society.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Bettina Gruber KinderKnigge founder

„The Games Institute helped turn our platform into a game that is demanding and motivating at the same time. Playing and games are the right approaches to reach out for our target audience!“

Jörg Hofstätter

The meaningful use and implementation of playful interaction promise great potential if the research is aligned and combined with the challenges companies and educational institutions have to face. Thomas Kunze brings an expertise in this that is trend-setting and makes him our go-to expert in this area of development.”

StJohn Smith, Quickclass founder

The Austrian Games Institute brings a profound understanding of game theory and dynamics and practical knowledge for gamification in education, a subject close to our hearts and essential to the future of successful LMS’s

Matthias Meyer

Thomas and the Games Institute bring the perfect combination, being part of games culture they add a profound understanding of teaching and education. This combination is unique and a role model for 21st-century education as well as the games industry as a whole.

Matthias Themel

“Thomas Kunze is an experienced educator with deep knowledge about games and gaming. The project Video Systems in Education benefited a lot from his contributions on the topic of gamification.”

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Kolumne: Wie Spiele einen Job bringen können

Spielen ist verschwendete Lebenszeit? Wir wissen schon lange, dass das nicht stimmt. Und so langsam kommt es auch in der restlichen Gesellschaft an. Von Thomas Kunze. Jake Leiper-Ritchie liebt Strategiespiele. Seine neueste Erwerbung, Ship Simulator Extremes, gefiel ihm so gut, dass er einfach nicht zur Uni ging. Nicht nur einen Tag, sondern ein paar Wochen. […]

April 5, 2019

play & learn//experts! eSports – Leistungssport und Medienphänomen. Möglichkeiten für den Bildungssektor

Am 4.12. lud das ZLI der PH Wien und das Games Institute Austria wieder ins Future Learning Lab ein. Die dritte Veranstaltung der Reihe play & learn//experts! war dem eSports und seinem Potential für den Bildungssektor gewidmet. Expert*innen aus dem Bildungsbereich, wie auch aus dem eSports haben zwei Ausrichtungen angedacht und diskutiert: zum einen eSports […]

April 2, 2019

First partner meeting Games in Basic Skills Training in Naestved, Denmark

The Erasmus+ project Games in Basic Skills Teaching is a cooperation of 9 European organisations from 8 European countries that work in adult training. The project is testing the use of games in basic skills teaching to develop a best practice model in specific teaching contexts and develop a tool-kit for specialists to apply this […]

AWESOME PEOPLE WE WORKED WITH

Kolumne: Wie Spiele einen Job bringen können

play & learn//experts! eSports – Leistungssport und Medienphänomen. Möglichkeiten für den Bildungssektor

First partner meeting Games in Basic Skills Training in Naestved, Denmark

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