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Engagement: A Critical Element in Learning and Gamification

Kapp Notes

If you want to have effective learning engagement, in gamification or any type of learning, you need to consider carefully how to grab and hold the learner’s attention. Although not looking at gamification specifically, the principle of engagement within games is a required element for learning within gamification design.

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Gamification of Learning and Training

Kapp Notes

Gamification – making things that don’t seem to be a game into a game is growing in popularity. Game mechanics, scoring, points, time elements, pattern seeking, item matching, content ratings are quickly working their way into almost every element of life. Equating Experience Points to Grades.

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Why we learn more at play ? gamification and rewards for learning

Ed App

Gamification becomes the most efficient and engaging method of transplanting playful learning into a digital landscape. According to Karl Kapp, one of the preeminent scholars on gamification, it involves ‘using game-based mechanics, aesthetics and game thinking to engage people, motivate action, promote learning, and solve problems.’

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Why we learn more at play ? gamification and rewards for learning

Ed App

Gamification becomes the most efficient and engaging method of transplanting playful learning into a digital landscape. According to Karl Kapp, one of the preeminent scholars on gamification, it involves ‘using game-based mechanics, aesthetics and game thinking to engage people, motivate action, promote learning, and solve problems.’

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.

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TrainingMagazine Network Presentation Resources: Interactivity, Games and Gamification: Creating Engaged Learners

Kapp Notes

Here are some videos of the gamification products we discussed. Here is some content and references. Proceedings of PRESENCE 2006: The 9th Annual International Workshop on Presence. Combining Zombies and Running…Gamification of Exercise. Sneak Peak: My Book on Gamification of Learning and Instruction.

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ASTD ICE 2013 Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

W209 – Interactivity, Games, and Gamification: A Research-Based Approach to Engaging Learners Through Games from Karl Kapp. Here is some content and references from the presentation. Proceedings of PRESENCE 2006: The 9th Annual International Workshop on Presence. How is Gamification Different from a Game?

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