Enterprise Gamification

September 4, 2015

23 Effective Uses Of Gamification In Learning: Part 2

This is the second part of my article that shares 23 powerful uses of gamification in learning to show you how gamification can reshape learning and make the learning experience refreshingly appealing.

by Christopher Pappas

August 28, 2015

23 Effective Uses Of Gamification In Learning: Part 1

Promoting interactivity and increasing learners’ engagement, desire for achievement, and motivation are the goals of any eLearning professional. You can have all that by gamifying your eLearning course material. In this article, I'll share 23 powerful uses of gamification in Learning to show you how gamification cannot only enhance the learning experience, but also make it refreshingly colorful and appealing. This article will be presented in 2 parts.

by Christopher Pappas

August 20, 2015

3 Mistakes You’re Making With Gamification In Business

Gamification in business—whether you’re designing a training program or you’re trying to motivate employees in a specific way—can be extremely successful. But even though it’s a popular learning and development trend, gamification can fail if you don’t use it correctly. Knowing a few of the most common mistakes can help you avoid errors when using gamification at your organization.

by Christie Wroten

August 18, 2015

Gamification Of Learning Design: How To Use Learning Battle Cards?

Since we published an article about Learning Battle Cards on eLearningIndustry.com we have been asked by several people how we are using this tool. As the main idea of Learning Battle Cards is to boost creativity in the Training and Development field I assume that all users will find their own ways of utilizing them. Here is a short story describing my experiences and ways of playing with the product.

by Marek Hyla

July 28, 2015

Learnification Of Gaming

Gamification of learning is a well known concept; we use artifacts known from games to motivate people to learn. In this article I would like to discuss a contradictory idea: Learnification of gaming. Thinking about it I am wondering how we can better use games for by-the-way learning.

by Marek Hyla

July 9, 2015

4 Reasons Why Mobile Learning Is A Smart Strategy

Mobile learning is a smart strategy. Think about this: what would a day without your smartphone be like? Are you feeling a little anxious… maybe wondering how you’ll check your email or look up the nearest 24-hour drug store when you run out of allergy medicine or check to see what the hipsters are posting on Instagram? Phew. Your phone is an essential part of everyday life—and your learners’ lives. That’s one reason why mLearning is a smart strategy for multiple industries, including the education realm and training departments all over the world.

by Christie Wroten

June 27, 2015

Top 5 Tips For Innovative eLearning Development

Amongst the challenges that Learning and Development teams and Learning Consultants face today, the top 2 pertaining to training would be: 1) How to increase the efficacy of training?, and 2) What learning strategies should be adopted to ensure that the learning and business mandates are met? In this article I will outline 5 tips for innovative eLearning development that will help organizations improve efficacy of training by making the learning stick.

by Asha Pandey

June 17, 2015 | Sponsored

Top 6 Benefits Of Gamification In eLearning

Gamification in eLearning helps create an effective learning system that enables learners to rehearse real-life scenarios and challenges in a safe environment. In this article, I will walk you through some of the benefits of Gamification for learners and how the experience of learning (recall and retention) can be enhanced through Gamification.

by Asha Pandey

June 15, 2015

2 Top Tips To Make Compliance Training Fun Through Gamification

Each year you can hear the cries of thousands of employees saying: “Oh, no, please tell me it isn’t time to do that boring compliance training again!” What’s an Instructional Designer to do when it comes to building more compliance training? We all know that no one likes to take it; but it has to be done. So how do we design compliance training that employees actually want to take? We think outside the box and gamify it.

by Melissa Dougherty

June 12, 2015

Play to Win! The Gamification Benefits In Workplace Training

Organizations are focusing on finding new ways to make training more engaging and enjoyable for learners while improving the impact of training on the organization. Emerging technologies have opened up a lot of new ways to make training more effective. Gamification is one of these, the benefits of which we will explore here.

by John O Brien

May 25, 2015

Gamification – First Things First

Gamification has become one of the hot topics of recent years. Everybody talks about it. Every eLearning vendor claims that implements this idea in their solutions. It is hard, however, to find really successful cases of such implementations. No wonder why gamification as a concept is going down to the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner's Hype Cycle.

by Marek Hyla

May 13, 2015

Building Motivation And Feedback With Gamification

Every year millions of Americans tune in to watch the Super Bowl, with a record-breaking 114 million watching in 2015. This year’s game was one of the best in Super Bowl history (can we never relive 2014, please?) and the excitement was in part because of the contrast between the two teams’ ball handling. The Patriots set a record with 37 completions by Tom Brady. The Seahawks had only one-third as many completions, and then likely lost the game after an intercepted forward pass through from the one-yard line.

by Jayme Jenkins