The Future of Gamification

Gamification, defined as “the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems,” is becoming core to engagement strategy for brands across industries from healthcare to automobiles to electronics. It is much more than a point system or cute game features. Based on what we know of the highly interactive, responsive, and personalized nature of Internet of Things (IoT) products and services, gamification promises to be one of the most-effective marketing concepts to apply to both customer experience and employee retention

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The Game of Life - How Experiential Learning and Gameful Design Can, and Do, Intersect

In a review of the Intrinsic Motivators inherent to effective gameful design, this presentation will compare aspects of gamified experiential education with recommendations as to how the best can be made of both these philosophies.

The Epic Use of Design Thinking in Gamification 

Properly managed, the game space is a safe place for students and teachers to once again take risks without triggering concern for “how it will affect the grade”.

Walking through "The Habbit" gamified learning program, attendees will go on an adventure to discover how Design Thinking can be used to superstruct the training of instructors in applying gamification to design challenges.

Escape the Tomb

Online escape rooms can be a powerful approach to team problem solving, and Escape the Tomb will fully test your knowledge and out-of-the-box approach to problem solving. Best of all, you’ll go through this experience in teams.

Do well and fabulous prizes await you. The alternative is ...[More]

Co-Creating the Future of Tertiary Education - The Learner's Journey

Evivve: The Leadership Game - Learn Problem Solving through Play

Play/witness a multiplayer online game based learning (MOGL) experience. Learn the key principles involved in designing and delivering MOGL experiences.

During the session, Mohsin will use the immersive learning methodology to provide a framework for attendees to follow in designing their own MOGL experiences.

Seven Steps To Gamification Success

Pete talks you through the Gamification+ framework for designing and delivering gamification projects. The seven stages in this process are the secret to continuing success. For each stage, Pete will explain how to apply it, the best practices from around the industry to apply at each stage and a few of the critical issues to watch out for.

Gamification in Business Education

IE Business School in Madrid has been creating interactive learning experiences in business education for the past decades. They have seen how gamified learning materials can make a difference. Whether directly involved in business education and related areas or not, you will certainly find nuggets that you can apply for your learning efforts from the best in the field. 

Smart Stories: Under the Hood of Narrative Simulations

Certain games use different quantitative features "under the hood" to enrich the pedagogical impact of gameplay. I’ll show four examples of how simple features and functionalities added to a branching game pay huge dividends to the learner.

The first is simple: every decision the user makes tips the scales between three values... [More]  

Level the Playing Field: Discovered Enablers and Barriers when Implementing Gamification in the Learning Environment

Gamification for learning is widespread, and there has been a focus on student increased performance when using gamified educational technology. However, there has been less attention given to identifying and solving the challenges of implementing gamification in the learning environment... [More]

Gamification for Online Courses: 5 Myths About Gamification that Keep You from Better Completion Rates

Are you online course completion rates, getting you down? Then Gamify! There are many misconceptions about gamification for online/digital courses and what it can actually do to transform your online course. Alyea uncovers the 5 myths of gamification for online/digital courses... [More] 

Can You Learn to Create a Micro-Learning App in Under an Hour?

At the end of this workshop, you will: Create a business plan for micro e-learning simulations using a tutorial of the Business Model Canvas program created for my graduate students. I present the Business Model Canvas as a planning and organizational methodology to share the development process with your team... [More]

The Dark Side of Gamification

Gamification is supposed to be fun. That’s why businesses, organizations, and individuals use it on a daily basis. Why else would someone play games? But what are the ethics of gamification? What stops someone from doing something nefarious? Is there a limit to gamification? Should it be up to academics, the government, or individuals to police how gamification is used? Can you imagine a world dominated by the Black Mirror episode Nosedive? Join three gamers, designers, educators, and academics as they discuss a world where everyone you interact with is rated on a five-star scale.

Intrinsic Rewards are why Games are better than Schools for Learning

Although reward structures are successful in games, the types of rewards used in education typically impede the learning process. Badges and other rewards have generally failed to take root in education because of deep-seated design constraints in schools, colleges, and adult education that affect what types of rewards get used- the fact that you are using a badge is far less important than how you use a badge... [More] 

Augmented Reality ScavengAR Hunt Unpacked

Augmented reality has found an accessible space in learning and development. Developing with AR is easier than it ever has been and gamified learning is the perfect use case! In this session, you will explore how to build an effective, engaging, and immersive AR scavenger hunt...  [More]

Playing in the Dark – Gamification with Nefarious Intent

The phrase dark pattern was originally used by Harry Brignull to describe the ways that UI designers were creating interfaces, web pages, and marketing strategies that were deceptive or manipulative. As instructional designers have increasingly leveraged elements of game design to engage their learner-players, they have often taken cues from the UI work done in some of these other spaces... [More]

"This Was Better than Face to Face." Making the Virtual Physical to Blow the Box Off People's Minds

In this session, Jimbo take you through the methodology that he used to unlock creativity, deepen sharing, and motivate change from two perspectives.

1. Participant View: You will engage fully in the mindset change process ... [More]

KPMG’s Interactive Learning Apps Program

During 2020, due to an emphasis on working virtually, KPMG's people needed a solution to help them feel they belonged. The Interactive Learning Apps Program was able to step up with various initiatives, engaging more than 20,000 people across the KPMG network. Some of those initiatives will be highlighted in this session.

Roleplaying Games - Exploring Structure, Motivation, and Gamified Application

The evidence is clear that storytelling is a powerful way to prompt learner engagement and increase knowledge retention.  The defining feature of roleplaying games is the huge amount of narrative freedom they afford participants.

Together we will explore what makes a roleplaying game and see what lessons can be learned and brought back to your gamification design.

Gamifying Massive Open Online Courses

As education organizations worldwide move towards putting educational experiences on the internet via Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Massive Open Online Education Platforms (MOOEPs), the retention of enrolled students throughout the course remains a challenge.

E-Learning reduces delivery costs significantly... [More]

Game-Based Learning Demo: Cold Case

Cold Case is an innovative new concept, linking paper dossiers sent to the participants with online communications via online conferencing tools. This online teambuilding game / online Escape Game was developed to help people learn how to better communicate and cooperate online. Supported by slides and funny pictures of people trying to solve a Diamond Heist... [More]

Intrinsic Gamification: A Human Factors Approach to Overcome the Limits of Badges and Leaderboards

The gamification of learning is very often centered on leveraging extrinsic rewards to promote learners’ engagement and attainment. However, complex learning activities are driven by stronger motivational factors, which are crucial to make complex learning intrinsically motivating... [More]

Co-Create a Collaborative Game

Using the game A Planet Called Hope as a starting point, the challenge, should you choose to accept it, will be to build either extension packs, level-ups, a digital version, or other items that will make this collaborative game bigger and better. You will discover the basics of a collaborative game, the deciding factors on choosing digital or physical games, and then you will get to co-create additions. Those that are workable will be included in our free to play and download game.

Gamifying Online Training for Reforestation in Afghanistan

Imagine yourself as a 13 year old girl named Ayla living in the mountains of Afghanistan without intact vegetation, facing existential problems due to climate change, desertification and erosion. You are concerned about the supply for your village, but it is hard for you to talk in front of the local dschirga, the gathering of the village that is mainly driven by men. What are your perspectives? ... [More]

Hyperreality, Mixed Reality, and Open World Games: Designing Serious Games for the U.N. and the W.H.O.

In this session, we will explore the design of game worlds for professional education. The building of alternate ‘realities’ for training is closely connected to the design of mixed reality training games including VR, AR, and desktop immersive narrative simulations. Game worlds have the following features which we will discuss in design:

a. extensive narrative and back story... [More]

Escape the Compliance Cave

We have been told for some time that xAPI is the solution we have wanted for decades to include all learning in a person’s record. While this is technically true, few businesses are adopting this standard. The main reason is most Instructional Designers, course developers, etc. are not programmers. To make xAPI work, people must be javascript experts. Now that Torrence Learning has created the xAPI.ly builder, this is no longer a barrier. This session demonstrates how any person can use this tool with a Learning Record Store and Learning Management System to collect information they can actually use.

The Hero Design Framework

The majority of projects fail because we’ve been so very wrong about how human behavior works. Fortunately, a renaissance in the Behavioral Sciences has been replacing folk wisdom with data. And the new field of Behavioral Design is establishing how to apply these findings to greatly improve outcomes on real-world projects.
In this session, one of the pioneers of the field will teach us the fundamentals of his “Hero Behavioral Framework”. You’ll learn Robin’s most practical insights distilled from his decades on the frontlines designing large-scale positive behavior change. You’ll find it a very applicable synthesis of insights from game design, media design, behavioral science, behavioral economics, social science, and more.