Leaning Solutions Resources: Leveraging Game Elements for Learning, Engagement, & Fun

Here are my slides and various links to my presentation at Learning Solutions

Articles and Blog Entries of Interest

Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing

Games, Gamification and the Quest for Learner Engagement

Gamification, Separating Fact from Fiction

Show the Learner Visible Signs of Their Learning

In Gamification, More Competitors Equal Less Competition

Measurement and Completion Achievements in Gamification

Goal Orientation in Gamification

Tips to Leverage Game Elements for Learning

1. Keep the number of competitors low
2. Use rewards to motivate performance, not completion
3. Begin with activity
4. Create curiosity, mystery, intrigue
5. Create a challenge for the learner
6. Put learners at “mock” risk
7. Give learners meaningful choices
8. Give learner a choice of where to “enter” the learning
9. Have games played over time rather than all at once

Books

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