Resources for practitioners 19 Flow and e-tivities

As you gain experience and confidence in creating your e-tivities, you might also be a little more ambitious. At this point, some e-tivity designers tend to rush off for more multi-media content, or a better platform, or larger numbers. Of course, those ideas may be very valuable. However, adding a little more ‘magic’ to your e-tivities might also be worth trying, especially as participants become experienced and enthusiastic in working online, and the role of the technology becomes less important.

As a spark, you could consider the concept of autotelism. Autotelic theories derive from Csikszentmihalyi’s (2002) studies of enjoyment and the conditions that underlie it. Autotelism originally described ...

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