Why The Most Important Question In Game-based Learning Is "Who Will Fund The Game Genome Project?" (Part 1 of 2)

Way back in 2000, two researchers, Will Glaser and Tim Westergren, began what was then called The Music Genome Project .  It was designed to...

New Wikipedia Articles Of Interest To Intelligence Professionals

Despite its occasional weaknesses, I really like Wikipedia.  Others ( perhaps unnecessarily ) worry about an encyclopedia that is editable b...

Intelligence And Ethics: Now You Can Check The Codes!

Some would say that ethics in intelligence is an oxymoron.   Certainly, the ethical challenges faced by today's intelligence professiona...

Will This New Game Genre Change Intelligence Training, Education?

Most gamers understand that games fall into genres.  For example, Scrabble, Boggle and my own game, Widget , are all examples of "word ...

Realism, Playability And Games In The Intelligence Classroom

A couple of weeks ago, I made a print-and-play version of my new game about collection management,  Spymaster , available to anyone who read...

Thinking in Parallel (Part Three - Testing The Mercyhurst Model Against The Real World)

Part 1 -- Introduction Part 2 -- The Mercyhurst Model For the last 11 years, I have been using the model described in Part 2 to structure my...

Thinking In Parallel (Part 2 - The Mercyhurst Model)

Part 1 -- Introduction While a number of tweaks and modifications to the cycle have been proposed over the years , very few professionals or...

Thinking In Parallel: A 21st Century Vision Of The Intelligence Process

(Note:  I recently was asked to present a paper on my thoughts about re-defining the intelligence process and the implications of that redef...