Articles about or referencing gamification
I run a certification program in which I help trainers and facilitators learn how to use a multiplayer game to facilitate their own virtual learning experiences. Because of the multiplayer and virtual nature of my […]
Self-Gamification and the Swiss Army Knives Self-Gamification is the art of turning our own lives into fun games, of which we are both the designers and the players. It is the application of game design […]
The Privilege of Learning from Failure I had a simple premise for a book: People learn the most when they fail People fail the most when they play games Therefore, games are the best way […]
When I first discovered Yu-kai Chou’s Octalysis framework, shortly after he published ‘Actionable Gamification’, I knew straight away that I would find it an invaluable tool, not just to help me design learning with learner […]
This article contains a list of twenty-three lessons learned from games and turning our lives into games. This list is an extended excerpt from the book Gameful Project Management. The extensions are mainly from Self-Gamification […]
Personal behaviour change is arguably one of the most powerful tools that we have in the fight against environmental challenges, such as Climate Change, ecosystem degradation and overuse of natural resources. Although the contribution of […]
Lately, games have been used as inspiration for myriads of innovations, implementations, and beneficial missions in all areas of our lives, as never before. Gamification, for example, taps into games with the purpose of positively […]
Gamification – there’s a lot of it about. Everywhere you look, marketeers, contact centres and HR types are publicising their latest gamification projects and talking numbers about engagement conversions, brand loyalty and so on. But […]
Games are a type of work if you think about it. We invest our time in games. We give games our attention and our mental capacities. But why do we do that? What makes play […]
One of the most prominent personalities in gamification, Andrzej Marczewski, wrote in his well-received book Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Unicorn Edition, “Work is actually very similar to play and even more like games. […]
For most people there is a clear delineation between ‘Work’ and ‘Play’, and with it the sad assumption that ‘Play’ is enjoyable and voluntary, and that ‘Work’, being its polar opposite, is unpleasant, and an […]
Have you ever thought: “I want to learn to speak _____”? That same energising thought got 300 million people to try out Duolingo, a freemium tool to learn any of 36 (and rising) languages. These include little-spoken […]
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