Flow learning is a concept originally designed by Joseph Cornell for sharing learning about nature. The stages of the flow learning process lend themselves well to gamification and great storytelling. Here are the 4 stages of flow learning and their intended outcomes: Stage 1: Awaken…
Gamification or at least the term is being used by a lot of e-learning providers and learning management systems, to create the illusion that they have indeed created something that has game mechanics in it. In a recent experience with a technology provider, their idea…
As I was scrolling through my twitter feed (@GamificationNat if you want to connect with me there), I came across this question “when does learning happen”? The person who created the tweet, Tanmay Vora (@tnvora) also had an adjoining picture drawn out, which captured a lot…
Gamification stuff we love: Kweetet.be A few weeks ago I was part of a panel at BETT, which is aimed at the education sector and I came across this Belgian creation called ‘Kweetet’, which in my native Flemish is what you say when you know…
I like trying out new gamified applications, to see how designers have used gamification. On the recommendation of Andrzej, I tried out a teaching to code application called Py. I have to say I love the simplicity of the gamification and how it motivates the…
Yesterday, I had the fun experience of being the guest on TLDchat, where learning and development specialists come and hang out online for one hour every weekday to discuss topics and challenges in the industry. Obviously, my topic involved gamification, some great questions came up,…
Every so often, I am asked to review an application for its gamification merits. ZonedIn a learn to skateboard app asked me to have a look at how they implemented gamification for learning to skateboard. I downloaded it and brought it along last weekend to…
Ever had the situation where you read an article or watched a fascinating video or even clicked through an e-learning session, and then you couldn’t remember most of it apart from the general topic? Well it turns out, you are in the majority of people….
Big data is a buzzword, that has entered the frame of enterprise applications in the last number of years. It is in recent months that it is also entering the realm of learning technology. Saying that very few learning technology providers are able to provide…
In one of my previous blogs I am sure I mentioned I am on a mission to learn to code and I am dipping my toes into a variety of languages. Yesterday I bumped into an iPad based course for Apple’s Swift coding. I thought…
In most online learning courses, struggle is not built in by intent. Yet in real life, the biggest lessons have come through periods or moments of struggle. Struggling to get to the next level in a game, makes the player consider different strategies or brings into…
On my travels in Malaysia, I met with the founders of Zap Zap Math. They showed me their awesome maths games application and we exchanged ideas on learning related gamification. The application is fully game based and was designed from a maths teacher point of…
