1. GAMIFICATION
Gavin Henrick,
Learning Technology Services
http://www.lts.ie
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com

2. GAMIFICATION
What is it?

3. What is Gamification?
“Gamification is the use of game thinking and
game mechanics to engage users in solving
problem”
Zichermann, Gabe; Cunningham, Christopher (August 2011) Gamification by Design
“Gamification is used in applications and
processes to improve user engagement, return
on investment, data quality, timeliness, and
learning”
Herger, Mario (May. 21, 2012). "Gamification Facts & Figures".
“The use of game elements and game design
techniques in non-game contexts.”
Werbach, Kevin – Gamification MOOC 2012

4. What is Gamification?
“Gamification is the use of game thinking
and game mechanics to engage users in solving
problem”
Zichermann, Gabe; Cunningham, Christopher (August 2011) Gamification by Design
“Gamification is used in applications and
processes to improve user engagement, return on
investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning”
Herger, Mario (May. 21, 2012). "Gamification Facts & Figures".
The use of game elements and game design
techniques in non-game contexts.
Werbach, Kevin – Gamification MOOC 2012

5. What is Gamification?
“Gamification is the use of game thinking and game
mechanics to engage users in solving problem”
Zichermann, Gabe; Cunningham, Christopher (August 2011) Gamification by Design
“Gamification is used in applications and processes to
improve user engagement, return on investment,
data quality, timeliness, and learning”
Herger, Mario (May. 21, 2012). "Gamification Facts & Figures".
The use of game elements and game design techniques in
non-game contexts.
Werbach, Kevin – Gamification MOOC 2012

6. Some Game Elements
• Avatars
• Badges
• Levels
• Points
• Progression
• Quests
• Resource Collection
• Rewards

7. Game Techniques
Think like a game designer
- Think of some techniques used in games

8. Contexts
• Crowdsourcing
• Customer Engagement
• Career
• Education
• Finance
• Health
• Marketing
• Sales

9. Gamification is not …
• Simulations
• Serious games in business
• Chess
• World of Warcraft
• Game based learning

10. Gamification …
You want your players to
• Choose to play the game
• Choose to keep on playing
• Feel the are in control
• Have fun

11. Motivation
• Intrinsic
• Autonomy
• Believe they can achieve it
• Interested in topic
• Extrinsic
• Money
• Grades
• Failure
• Competition

12. What motivates you…
• To participate in a forum discussion

13. What motivates you…
• To complete a quiz/exam

14. What motivates you…
• To read extra materials

15. What motivates you…
• To watch a video

16. What motivates you…
• To transcribe a video

17. What motivates you…
• To help another student

18. What motivates you…
• To learn

19. * Could not find origin of the Wifi aspect to Pyramid – saw on twitter once..

20. GAMIFICATION EXAMPLES

21. Foursquare
Check-in at locations
Unlock Badges
Compete for Mayor
Scaveger Hunts
Discounts & Rewards

22. Healthmonth.com
Health improvement rules
Life points
Difficulty Brackets
Teams & Social interaction
Game elements
Social networking
Behaviour Change
http://healthmonth.com/

29. BBVA Outcomes
• In 6 months – 100,000 new users of the
online system
• Video Watched 15 times more than before
• Time spent in the site increased
significantly
• The number of Fans increased by five
times in social media
• Improved the perception of the bank

30. GAMIFICATION
Applying Gamification to elearning

31. learnmoodle
Badge Rewards
• Start and End
• Not competitive
• Engagement-contingent
• Completion-contingent

32. learnmoodle
Mechanics
• Challenge
• Cooperation
• Feedback
• Rewards
• Turns (weeks)
• Win State
Components
• Achievement
• Avatar
• Badges
• Collections
• Points
• Quests
• Teams

33. Library Gamification – Lemon Tree
• https://library.hud.ac.uk/lemontree/about.php

34. Other Examples?

35. GAMOOIFICATION
Applying Gamification to Moodle

36. Gamification Toolkit
•Groups
•Quiz Results Block
•Progress Bar
•Certificate
•Activity Completion
•Conditional Access
•Badges

37. Moodle.org Groups
• Groups can have icons
• ICONS show up on forum posts
• Example - Moodle.org “Particularly Helpful
Moodler”

38. Quiz Results Block
• Use as a leaderboard
• Select which quiz
• X highest grades
• Y lowest grades
• Can show names
• Can be anonymous
• Can be % or numbers
• Can show groups

39. Progress Bar
• Set up the tracking
• Graphical progress bar to completion
• Indicators for completion, late and
incomplete

40. Overview of Progress

41. Certificates
• Award a PDF certificate for download
• Can be linked using conditional access to
• completion of activities
• grades
• Configurable in design and content

43. Open Badges
“if a resumé or CV is a bunch of claims,
Open Badges`are a bunch of evidence”

44. How they work in Moodle
• Award graphical badges based on criteria
• Finishing a course, completing your profile,
completing an activity in a course, ad-hoc
assignment by teacher
• Learner can download or export badge to
Badge Backpack
• Badge holds metadata for verification
• Learner can display badges elsewhere
See http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2013/05/06/open-
badges-and-moodle/

46. P2PU

48. Activity Completion
• Activities and Resources have completion
status
• Students can manually complete
• Automatically complete by action such as a
forum post or view
• Displays tick-box on course overview page
• Uses Cron to process some actions

51. Conditional Access
• Restrict access to resource/activity/section
• Can restrict based on
• Time
• Grade
• Profile field
• Activity
• Can show / hide the requirements for
accessing the activity to students

53. Gamifying a Moodle course. What
difference does it make?
Gamified vs non-gamified courses
• Gamified students complete more activities
• Gamified students complete more
meaningful activities
• Gamified students try harder to complete
activities
http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/

54. Contact
Gavin Henrick
E: gavin@lts.ie
T: @ghenrick
B: http://www.somerandomthoughts.com
S: http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/
L: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavinhenrick