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How to Build a Gamification Strategy – An Expert View

Harbinger Interactive Learning

Gamification strategies are one of the best techniques to improve knowledge retention. In eLearning, a gamification strategy involves using unique gaming elements and techniques to stimulate the learner’s interest and increase their participation. Gamification creates an emotional connect between the learners and the content.

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Use Your E-Learning Course to Change Behavior

LearnDash

If someone signs up for an online fitness course, or for life coaching, or for meditation, they’re trying to learn new behaviors that will replace existing patterns of behavior. Gamification has been around for a long time, and its continued popularity is a testament to how well it works. But learning is also a behavior.

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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter from “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School”

Adobe Captivate

I recently posted some recommended reading that relates to a virtual class I recently taught on gamification. Chapter 1: “ Learning: From Speculation to Science ,” from How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School , by Bransford, Brown, and Cocking. Here is the recording.).

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The psychology of gamification in education: why rewards matter for learner engagement.

Paradiso

So is gaming or gamification as big as we think? The reality is that the video game (gamification) industry is twice the size of the movie industry and three times the size of the music industry, going on 2013 figures. Its Gamification everywhere. The rewards are what make games addictive keeps everyone hooked on gamification.

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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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Why We Like ELearning Engagement

LearnDash

The three popular methods at the moment include: Gamification. Gamification most often involves adding points, badges, and leaderboards to course content. Our brains are hardwired to be receptive to these strategies. Social Learning. Personalized Learning.

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3 Brain science insights about adult learning

Matrix

Not so long ago people believed that we only use around 10% of our brain capacity and that once a neuron dies, the brain loses it forever. And neuroscience placed the 10% usage of the brain right next to the other erroneous beliefs. And neuroscience placed the 10% usage of the brain right next to the other erroneous beliefs.

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