Gamification and gamified elements have been a hot topic for the last year or two.
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Gamification is one of those contemporary terms that business owners feel they should understand..
Disengagement— everyone has experienced it. After a few years (or even months) on the job, monotony and habituation inevitably set in
While best practices in education have seen some dramatic shifts over the last century, the basic format of learning has been surprisingly resistant to reform, despite gigantic leaps made over the same time period in areas such as technology.
Millennials have never lived in a world without video games. The oldest members of this generation were mere toddlers when the Nintendo game system launched in 1985, sparking a gaming trend that has not only infiltrated our homes, but now our workplace.
From classic board games such as “Trivial Pursuit”, to iconic television game shows such as “Jeopardy” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”, most people love the mental challenge and exhilaration of participating in trivia contests.
Gamification is the process of applying gaming designs and concepts to learning or training scenarios in order to make them more engaging and entertaining for the learner.
An info-graphic titled "The State of Digital Education" was recently published which portrays a story of the rapid transformation of digital technologies in k-12 and post secondary education.