GAMIFICATION Gavin Henrick,

Learning Technology Services

http://www.lts.ie

http://www.somerandomthoughts.com

GAMIFICATION What is it?

What is Gamification?

“Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics to engage users in solving

problem” Zichermann, Gabe; Cunningham, Christopher (August 2011) Gamification by Design

“Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, return

on investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning”

Herger, Mario (May. 21, 2012). "Gamification Facts & Figures".

“The use of game elements and game design techniques in non-game contexts.”

Werbach, Kevin – Gamification MOOC 2012

What is Gamification?

“Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics to engage users in solving

problem” Zichermann, Gabe; Cunningham, Christopher (August 2011) Gamification by Design

“Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, return on

investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning” Herger, Mario (May. 21, 2012). "Gamification Facts & Figures".

The use of game elements and game design techniques in non-game contexts.

Werbach, Kevin – Gamification MOOC 2012

What is Gamification?

“Gamification is the use of game thinking and game

mechanics to engage users in solving problem” Zichermann, Gabe; Cunningham, Christopher (August 2011) Gamification by Design

“Gamification is used in applications and processes to

improve user engagement, return on investment,

data quality, timeliness, and learning” Herger, Mario (May. 21, 2012). "Gamification Facts & Figures".

The use of game elements and game design techniques in

non-game contexts. Werbach, Kevin – Gamification MOOC 2012

Some Game Elements

• Avatars

• Badges

• Levels

• Points

• Progression

• Quests

• Resource Collection

• Rewards

Game Techniques

Think like a game designer

- Think of some techniques used in games

Contexts

• Crowdsourcing

• Customer Engagement

• Career

• Education

• Finance

• Health

• Marketing

• Sales

Gamification is not …

• Simulations

• Serious games in business

• Chess

• World of Warcraft

• Game based learning

Gamification …

You want your players to

• Choose to play the game

• Choose to keep on playing

• Feel the are in control

• Have fun

Motivation

• Intrinsic

• Autonomy

• Believe they can achieve it

• Interested in topic

• Extrinsic

• Money

• Grades

• Failure

• Competition

What motivates you…

• To participate in a forum discussion

What motivates you…

• To complete a quiz/exam

What motivates you…

• To read extra materials

What motivates you…

• To watch a video

What motivates you…

• To transcribe a video

What motivates you…

• To help another student

What motivates you…

• To learn

* Could not find origin of the Wifi aspect to Pyramid – saw on twitter once..

GAMIFICATION EXAMPLES

Foursquare

Check-in at locations

Unlock Badges

Compete for Mayor

Scaveger Hunts

Discounts & Rewards

Healthmonth.com

Health improvement rules

Life points

Difficulty Brackets

Teams & Social interaction

Game elements

Social networking

Behaviour Change

http://healthmonth.com/

BBVA Outcomes

• In 6 months – 100,000 new users of the

online system

• Video Watched 15 times more than before

• Time spent in the site increased

significantly

• The number of Fans increased by five

times in social media

• Improved the perception of the bank

GAMIFICATION Applying Gamification to elearning

learnmoodle

Badge Rewards

• Start and End

• Not competitive

• Engagement-contingent

• Completion-contingent

learnmoodle

Mechanics

• Challenge

• Cooperation

• Feedback

• Rewards

• Turns (weeks)

• Win State

Components

• Achievement

• Avatar

• Badges

• Collections

• Points

• Quests

• Teams

Library Gamification – Lemon Tree

• https://library.hud.ac.uk/lemontree/about.php

Other Examples?

GAMOOIFICATION Applying Gamification to Moodle

Gamification Toolkit

•Groups

•Quiz Results Block

•Progress Bar

•Certificate

•Activity Completion

•Conditional Access

•Badges

Moodle.org Groups

• Groups can have icons

• ICONS show up on forum posts

• Example - Moodle.org “Particularly Helpful

Moodler”

Quiz Results Block

• Use as a leaderboard

• Select which quiz

• X highest grades

• Y lowest grades

• Can show names

• Can be anonymous

• Can be % or numbers

• Can show groups

Progress Bar

• Set up the tracking

• Graphical progress bar to completion

• Indicators for completion, late and

incomplete

Overview of Progress

Certificates

• Award a PDF certificate for download

• Can be linked using conditional access to

• completion of activities

• grades

• Configurable in design and content

Open Badges

“if a resumé or CV is a bunch of claims,

Open Badges`are a bunch of evidence”

How they work in Moodle

• Award graphical badges based on criteria

• Finishing a course, completing your profile,

completing an activity in a course, ad-hoc

assignment by teacher

• Learner can download or export badge to

Badge Backpack

• Badge holds metadata for verification

• Learner can display badges elsewhere See http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2013/05/06/open-

badges-and-moodle/

P2PU

Activity Completion

• Activities and Resources have completion

status

• Students can manually complete

• Automatically complete by action such as a

forum post or view

• Displays tick-box on course overview page

• Uses Cron to process some actions

Conditional Access

• Restrict access to resource/activity/section

• Can restrict based on

• Time

• Grade

• Profile field

• Activity

• Can show / hide the requirements for

accessing the activity to students

Gamifying a Moodle course. What

difference does it make?

Gamified vs non-gamified courses

• Gamified students complete more activities

• Gamified students complete more

meaningful activities

• Gamified students try harder to complete

activities

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Contact

Gavin Henrick

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