If you’re in the e-learning industry, you’ve heard the term by now: gamification. Sounds fun, right? But true gamification is more than throwing together some badges and a leaderboard.
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Hi Belen - Those are really good points. When I was doing research for this article I had some deep discussions with the other Instructional Designers on my team because I was trying to find out... if you add one or two of these techniques to your course, does that mean you've "gamified" your e-learning? How many techniques do you need to include to have gamification? There's no solid answer to that.
I also think it's important to investigate and understand the differences between game-based learning and gamification. They are 2 different things and serve different purposes. I think you can apply gamification techniques to a course without making it a true "game". I think thats more the purpose behind game-based learning. Just an interesting thought...
I also think it's important to investigate and understand the differences between game-based learning and gamification. They are 2 different things and serve different purposes. I think you can apply gamification techniques to a course without making it a true "game". I think thats more the purpose behind game-based learning. Just an interesting thought...
Application of gamification principles can be very simple and small without turning your elearning into a game. I have used red (pulsing) markers whose color turns from red into green after clicking on them. I like to believe this applies a psychological (motivation) principle that learners are tempted to turn red into green. In this way you can increase learner motivation to uncover all information hidden behind markers.