The Gamification Report Blog
In professional learning, we are very good at documenting completion. We issue certificates, digital badges, continuing education credits, scores, and transcripts. We record hours spent in a program and assessments passed. All of those things have a purpose. I run a certification program, so I am ce...
Ask a room full of learning professionals what gamification means, and the answers usually come quickly: points, badges, and leaderboards.
I do not immediately tell them they are wrong because they are not. Those are game mechanics, and mechanics matter. They are not the entire design.
A mechanic ...
The course was assigned. The employee clicked through it. The quiz was passed, the completion box was checked, and the report says the organization trained 96 percent of its people.
Wonderful.
But can anyone do anything differently because of it?
That question is becoming harder to avoid. Recent ...
On Friday morning, I sat back and watched our Level 3 Master Craftsman participants present the concept boards they had spent the week creating. No two boards looked alike, and none of them looked like a finished eLearning course.
One used sticky notes and game cards. Another used images connected ...
This morning, our Fallย Level 3 Master Craftsmanย cohort began its Design Intensive.
They arrived from different parts of the world, different organizations, different industries, and very different learning environments. Over the next five days, they will question assumptions, wrestle with design pr...
I've been thinking a lot about AI lately.
Not because I'm trying to master every new tool that comes along. Frankly, that's impossible. By the time you learn one platform, three more have been released! What I've been thinking about is something much bigger than the tools themselves.
How do we, as...
Six hours today could change the opportunities available to you tomorrow.
Everywhere we look, someone is telling us the economy is doing great.
Yet every time I stop at the grocery store, fill up my gas tank, pay an insurance bill, or book a flight,ย I am reminded that the reality many of us experi...