State of the union for Project Delphinium, an educational gamification platform.

2. Awards
Instructure Innovation Award 2015
Academy of Management Best Paper 2015
MED Best Paper in Management Education Award 2015
Outstanding Teaching Award UVU Extended Studies
Gamification World Congress
Video Contest Winner
Best Theoretical Contribution Finalist
Best Technological Development Contribution Contender

3. What is Project Delphinium?
A tool for adding game elements to canvas
Thanks Cary for the
award winning video!

4. How does it work?

5. Focus is on being easy and super flexible
These 15 lines of HTML…
<div class="info">
<ul>
<li>&#8226;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mouse-over to see modules, click to access content</li>
<li>&#8226;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mouse-over orange links to see prerequisite modules</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="legend"><div class="miniSmallText">Key</div><br>{% component 'irislegend' %}</div>
<div class="miniBonus"><div class="miniSmallText">Health</div>{% component 'bonus' %}</div>
<div class="miniIris"><div class="miniSmallText">Exams</div>{% component 'exams' %}</div>
<div class="miniIris start"><div class="miniSmallText"><b>Start Here</b></div>{% component 'start' %}</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div class="largeText">Successful Organizations are...</div>
<div class="iris" style="background-color:#F4D49B"><div class="smallText">Excellent People...</div>{% component 'people' %}</div>
<div class="iris" style="background-color:#B0BF6C"><div class="smallText">Effectively Aligned with...</div>{% component 'align' %}</div>
<div class="iris" style="background-color:#B3C4D6"><div class="smallText">An Exceptional Idea.</div>{% component 'idea' %}</div>

6. Turn into this!

7. We have a growing list of game elements
Leaderboard
Experience
Health
Current Grade
Collectables
Module Interfaces
Achievements
Competency tracking
Progress indicators
Count down timer

8. Current status
We are in an Alpha-Beta stage
Using it in a live course now
Lots of work left
User testing suggests changes
Improving/completing current tools
Adding new tools
Shooting for Fall to offer more support to UVU

9. Management education has become...
My research stream
Does gamification work? Why does
gamification work?

10. Who is using Project Delphinium?
Me
Drivers Education
Working with Technology Management
Made lots of contacts at GWC
Tool has a limited open source licence - anyone can use it

11. Challenges
Steady hunt for resources
Programmers are hard to find in Utah - I’ve turned over 11 so far
They can get paid more just about anywhere else
Uncharted territory
Some trial and error to find out what motivates students
Consequences of design decisions can be difficult to predict

12. How can you get involved?
Spread the word! Talk about us
Join us on social media
Suggest widgets on our website
Test and submit bug reports
Suggest design improvements/create graphic assets
Start building Delphinium environments
Start building components
Sponsor development
Make code contributions

13. Questions?