Gamification what is it, and what it is in moodle?

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Gamification – what is it?

Gavin HenrickLearning Technology Services

GAMIFICATIONWhat 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

• To complete a quiz/exam

• To read extra materials

• To watch a video

• To transcribe a video

• To help another student

GAMIFICATION EXAMPLES

Foursquare

Check-in at locations

Unlock Badges

Compete for Mayor

Scaveger Hunts

Discounts & Rewards

Healthmonth.com

Health improvement rules

Life pointsDifficulty BracketsTeams & 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

GAMIFICATIONApplying 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

Library Gamification – Lemon Tree

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

Other Examples?

GAMOOIFICATIONApplying Gamification to Moodle

Gamification Toolkit

• Groups

• Progress Bar

• Checklist

• 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”

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

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 verificationSee 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

Contact Info

Gavin Henrick

Email: [email protected]

Blog: http://www.somerandomthoughts.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ghenrick

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