Episode #46 | Chris Ramsden – Learning That Sticks: How Games Build Character and Confidence

April 14, 2025 00:38:34
Episode #46 | Chris Ramsden – Learning That Sticks: How Games Build Character and Confidence
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Episode #46 | Chris Ramsden – Learning That Sticks: How Games Build Character and Confidence

Apr 14 2025 | 00:38:34

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Show Notes

In this episode with Chris, we dive into his 30+ years of experience in education and his mission to make learning engaging, meaningful, and growth-focused through game-based learning. Chris, a leader at Accelium Australia, shares how strategy games can be powerful tools for building wellbeing, resilience, and thinking skills in both students and educators.

More About Chris

Chris is a Game-Based Learning Consultant at Accelium Australia, specialising in developing thinking and life skills for learners and educators.

He help schools and training companies utilise cutting-edge learning technologies and games-based learning to engage learners and develop and assess thinking skills.

He’s an engaging communicator with a positive can-do mindset, always looking to help educators ignite and engage students with learning.

Chris has received several accolades, including being recognised as an outstanding teacher by the UK inspection body Ofsted, twice being selected in The Educator Magazine Hot List of Innovative Educators in Australia, and receiving The Educator Magazine’s 5 Star Service Provider award in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

He was honoured to be a judge for the Educator’s Schools Awards from 2018 to 2021.

He’s an international educator of 30+ years who, as a former PE teacher, has always used games to engage and inspire students.

Games are microcosms of life, and for the past 17 years, he has used games of strategy to engage learners in the processes of effective thinking, character and strength development, social and emotional learning, metacognition and transference.

Email: [email protected] 
Website: 
accelium.com.au
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