The Gamification Report Blog
by Monica Cornetti
CEO, Sententia Gamification
Favorite memories of summer? Top of the list for me was a not-so-strict-bedtime schedule. We’d ride our bikes till dusk, play kick-the-can in the backyard with only the back-porch light and the moon to guide our way, home-made Kool-Aid...
by Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification
Visualize this: It’s the Fourth of July in the United States. You are at a park awaiting the setting sun and the fireworks. You are sitting on a blanket and have a picnic next to you waiting to be consumed. And...
by Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification
In the first-ever empirically-based taxonomy of human needs and desires (how’s that for an opening line), Steven Reiss, PhD identified 16 Core Desires that we all have. These Core Desires motivate us to do certain...
Pretty much every profession that designs experiences for other people uses personas… except the learning and development community. Game designers, app designers, web page designers all rely on personas to determine what will appeal to their target audiences and what things they should...
by Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification
In our efforts to make learning engaging through gamification, we may trip over some unintended consequences. It turns out that there are some advantages to dry, boring lectures.
It goes back to the famous...
by Jonathan Peters, PhD
Sententia Gamification Chief Motivation Officer
I recently read an article about creating engagement at events in a manner that people put the needs of the group ahead of their own. The author mentioned a bar in College Park, MD, that had an innovative beer special:...
by Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification
In several of my articles and webinars, I’ve noted the importance of story in learning programs. Specifically, I mentioned the work of Paul Zak who, with the help of the Department of Defense, has shown that when we...