Help! They blew up my gradebook! In this session of the QuestBoise 2015 conference @AgileBill4d describes what it was like to take a year of graduate courses using a gamified Learning Management System (LMS), in this case, 3dGameLab. We touch on the differences between a gamified structure compared to a game like platform. Finally, we present data to show patterns of learner adoption in such a course.

1. QuestBoise 2015
Help!
They Blew up My
Gradebook!
AgileBill Krebs
Agile Dimensions LLC
Boise State EdTech
U of West of England
A Student's Perspective on Recieving Gamified Education
(Which happened to have been delivered in Virtual Worlds)

2. Goal
PhD in Organization Development
PhD in Coolness (2021?)
(EdTech seems like the closest thing
Psycholgy + Technology +
Virtual Worlds + Gamification)
Coaching Model
Agile Coaching Institute - Lyssa Adkins
Innovation Games®

3. Inspirations
Chris Haskell
Lisa Dawely
IBM Academy of Technology
led to Second Life
led to 3dGameLab & TeacherCamp
led to Boise State University - Masters in Education Technology (2017?)
led to Games & Simulations (EDTECH 532 & 531 - both used 3dGameLab for LMS)
led to Blowing up the Gradebook
+ many - Ran Rinrichs UW, Werbach MOOC, UWE
+ many of you!
Used in Distribued Agile Study Group

4. Old Model
Start with a perfect 'A'
Nocked down little by
little all semester via
the red pen
Water torture

5. Theory &
Foundations
Part I

6. New Model
Start with 0 - an
'F'
2000 points for an 'A'

7. What's a Quest?
A. a Module in the course
B. a Choice
C. a Concise writeup
❖ Short Video
❖ Text description
❖ Activity
❖ Call to share / reflect

8. Solo or Group?
Lesson = Quest
Group = Raid

9. Better
Quests
1. Videos <= 2 to 10 minutes
2. Short quests better than long
3. Maintain tension between
challenge and dispair -
1. State of "Flow" by Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
http://works.bepress.com/chris_haskell/

10. Choices
Quest Dependqancy Graph for Minecraft branch (Gillespie / Haskell)

11. Choices
❖ Game Card
❖ Available
❖ WIP
❖ Gating per prereqs

12. Results In
Practice
Part II

13. at first....
Motion Sickness
1. "I'll just wait out this Minecraft part until
we get to a game with a 3rd person
perspective"
2. Task Focused - Learn how to look
3. Spend all night building. Trans
continental Railroads. Drained ocean
monuments. Played with Red Stone
circuits.

14. Kevin Feenan's Rockcliffe
So Popular had to make a
New Server for Alumni Rooting Hypothosis

15. But ...

16. Game? (Tetris)
Gamification? (PBL)
Simulation?
Platform? (SL)
Ludic Open Play?
Was it ...

17. Sploder
Game
Abstract
Rules

18. Dr. Kevin Werbach (U Penn Wharton) discusses Points and Badges in his Gamification
MOOC
Gamification /
PBL
Points
Badges
Leader Boards
Intrinsic, or Extrinsic?

19. Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader
Simulation
Accuracy is a key goal
Used paper in the last century

20. Berlin 1920's build in Second Life
Platform
Be there
or is this a Simulation?
What's the blob up in the sky?

21. Many choices of
Platforms

22. What dimension are you?

23. Distributed Agile Study Group in Minecraft Sandbox
Ludaic Play
Surprisingly, this appeared to
be more important than
expected when teaching my
course using games.

24. Quiz
Which are these ?

25. Agency
Do you relate Through your
avatar enough to 'feel'?
Proteus Effect
(Bailenson, Yee)

26. Peers
❖ Some people may be
motivated by other
people in the class.
❖ I liked knowing where I
stood relative to my
peers via our LMS's
'Group' function.

27. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
Beginning

28. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
Mid Game The first 'A'

29. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
Mid Game
They don't stop at an 'A'
I had to increase the scale

30. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
End Game
Some finish early
Most get the grad they 'want'
Many continue past an 'A'
But, what if we graded on a
curve?

31. Badges
❖ I like My Badges
❖ I love that they are
Mozilla OpenBadges in
some cases
❖ I love that they tie to
standards
❖ More valuable if part of
an ecosystem

32. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
Linear Patterns

33. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
Rockets Patterns

34. Dr Chris Haskell's Graduate EdTech courses hosted in 3dGameLab
Procrastinators Patterns

35. History
❖ I can see what I did

36. Big Data Is this the best part of a
Gamified LMS?

37. EdTech 532
Aesthetics or
Puzzle BrainHex may tell you your style

38. Dr Chris Haskell's Games and Simulations Course
Organization Hearding cats using
symoblic builds

39. Thank you
UW Certificate in Virtual Worlds
Class of 2010

40. Thank you
UWE

41. Read More
❖ Learning in 3D by Karl Kapp, and
Tony O'Driscoll
❖ Chris's Dissertation
❖ Book series by Hinrichs and Wankel
❖ For the Win by Werbach & Hunter
❖ Bailenson & Yee & and Stanford's
VHIL

42. Playcamp Online. Distributed Agile Study Group(tm). Agile Busienss Park(tm)
See ya Online !
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