Learning can be made fun, and learners can be kept engaged for longer, by applying game-design thinking to non-game applications. These gamification techniques aim to tap into learners’ basic desires such as competition, achievement, rewards and status, which drives deeper engagement, higher completion rates and stronger results. Recording link: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=2609572&loc=en_us

1. Badges, Levels,
Leaderboards, Accolades!
Gamifyingthelearningexperience
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2. Meaning
Elements
Types
Examples
Making it a success

4. What’s gamification?
Gamification is the use of game
thinking and game mechanics in
non-game contexts to engage users
in solving problems and increase
users' contributions.

5. What gamification is NOT:
Superficial addition of badges, points, and rewards
Trivializing of learning
New to learning professionals
Perfect for every learning situation
Easy to create

6. Gamification elements

7. Goals and Rules
Formulate clear and explicit goals
Keep the rules simple

8. Conflict, competition, or cooperation
Competition and cooperation are most effective
Keep the number of competitors small
Foster cooperation

9. Time

10. Rewards and achievements
Completion achievements
Measurement achievements

11. Rewards and achievements
Use measurement achievements
Keep the number of rewards limited
Don’t make them random

12. Points
Consider using points for:
 Status indicators
 Progress
 Unlocking access to course content

13. Badges
Typically awarded for non-linear accomplishments.

14. Leaderboards

15. When using points, badges, and leaderboards:
Allow for personalized leaderboards
Structure leaderboards by groups
Create a simple point system
Let learners display achievements
Use badges for non-linear progress

16. Levels
Basic
Intermediate
Hard

17. Choose it carefully
Combine different types of feedback

18. Stories and characters
Characters should be similar to learners
Beginning, middle, and end of story
Enough details
End on a happy note

19. Freedom to fail
Let the learners know
Don’t make failure permanent
Multiple paths to success

20. Scoring
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Make it transparent
Use scoring to drive behavior
Consider more than one dimension
Tie score to learning improvement

21. Types of gamification

22. Types of gamification
Content Structural

23. Content gamification
Application of game elements to a learning content.
Various level of applications, from very simple to very complex
Story, challenge, mystery and characters are used as the core elements
Many a times, modelled on popular games
Most common application is in quizzing

24. Content gamification examples

25. Content gamification examples

27. Structural gamification
Application of game elements to the environment of any activity to motivate the
completion of that activity in a desired manner
In learning, mostly it is to propel learners to complete the learning content.
Most common implementation in LMS.
Does not need modification of learning contents.
Points, badges and leaderboards are the most widely used mechanics.

28. Structural gamification examples
Airline frequent flyer program
Global Corporate Challenge
One real-life example
Learning - Gamification in new Adobe LMS

29. Resources