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Taking gamification in training to the next level

Matrix

She rejected my call and I got three very bewildering texts: “bus” “can’t phone” “chasing pkm”. Gamification – an effective panacea. Gamification as a concept has been around since 2002 when Nick Pelling coined the term but has become increasingly popular in the last decade. These include politics and civic institutions.

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Revisiting My Learning Journey on Social Media

ID Reflections

Here’s a link to my first ever blog post called Games in Corporate Training written at a time when most organizations thought that gamification in corporate training was a sacrilege. Again unknown to me, I was following the classic behavior of a community member going from lurking to participating to contributing to lurking again.

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Best articles on Working Smarter, April 2012

Jay Cross

Kapp’s Gamification for Learning and Instruction . Karl Kapp’s written another book, this time on gamification , and I certainly liked his previous book with Tony O’Driscoll on Virtual Worlds. Behavior Change as Value Proposition ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012. So who said it was essential? What and who are we?

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