Gamification For Serious Learning: 5 Facts That Will Impress Your Boss

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Gamification For Serious Learning 5 Facts That
Will Impress Your Boss

• Part of Gamification Series
• Presented by
• www.eidesign.net
• Author-Asha Pandey
• Chief Learning Strategist, EI Design
• apandey_at_eidesign.net

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Gamification For Serious Learning 5 Facts That
Will Impress Your Boss

• Using gamification for serious learning is a hot
  topic right now. Organization heads and Learning
  and Development heads are keen to explore this
  and enrich their existing learning strategy.
  However, they have several questions that range
  from true benefits of gamification to
  ascertaining if it indeed improves the
  effectiveness of learning.

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Gamification For Serious Learning 5 Facts That
Will Impress Your Boss

• 5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
  That Will Impress Your Boss

In this article, I will share 5 facts about
gamification for serious learning through a
series of questions and answers. I am sure these
pointers will help you in evaluating and
embracing gamification soon.
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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss

• Q1. What is gamification?
• Gamification is an alternate approach (to
  traditional eLearning) to provide engaging,
  immersive, and effective learning experiences to
  your learners. By using gaming principles,
  elements, and innovative strategies, learners can
  be engaged and encouraged to apply this learning
  at work.
• It provides an effective informal learning
  environment and helps learners practice real life
  situations and challenges in a safe environment.
  Typical components of gamification-based learning
  courses are shown here.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss

• Q2. What are the advantages of using gamification
  vis-a-vis traditional eLearning?
• Unlike traditional eLearning, gamification
• Evokes friendly competition.
• Brings in a spirit of achievement.
• Enhances user engagement and can be used as a
  behavior change tool.
• Encourages learners to progress through the
  content, motivates action, influences behavior,
  and drives innovation.
• You can refer to my article Benefits Of
  Gamification In eLearning for more details.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss

• Q3. How does gamification impact learning?
• There are several aspects of learning, notably
  its retention, and eventual application on the
  job that can be influenced by gamification.
• Specifically
• Gamification puts scientific principles of
  repeated retrieval and spaced repetition to good
  effect and brings about a remarkable change in
  behavior.
• Games can be fun for the learner but still have
  a significant impact on learning. (The player can
  experience fun during the game and still
  experience learning during gameplay if the
  level of engagement is high.)
• Playing games with high levels of engagement
  leads to an increase in retention.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss

• Q3. How does gamification impact learning?
• The diagram shown here reaffirms the power of
  gamification in learning.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
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• Q4. Can gamification be applied to any training
  or is it successful when used in certain kinds of
  trainings?
• We have an established practice featuring
  gamification for serious learning and have
  worked on gamifying diverse concepts like
• Professional skills training.
• Product training.
• Soft skills.
• Induction and on-boarding.
• Compliance.
• Social collaboration - featuring Performance
  Support Tools.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss

• Q4. Can gamification be applied to any training
  or is it successful when used in certain kinds of
  trainings?
• So far, we have not faced a challenge in arriving
  at a suitable gamified approach to varied
  training needs.
• You can refer to my article 6 Killer Examples On
  Gamification In eLearning that illustrates the
  use of gamification for diverse training needs.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
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• Q5. Can gamified trainings meet specific learning
  outcomes like the traditional online/ILT
  programs?
• Certainly. Our gamification approach is aligned
  to meet specific learning outcomes (gamification
  for serious learning).
• We achieve this through the following
• We apply game mechanics in a non-game situation.
• We provide immersive learning and a safe
  environment to handle the challenges of a
  real-life situation.
• All our solutions feature serious game-based
  concepts wherein the game objectives are aligned
  to the learning objectives.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
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• Q5. Can gamified trainings meet specific learning
  outcomes like the traditional online/ILT
  programs?
• We offer a gamification platform to train
  learners through
• Approach 1 An overall gamified concept.
• Approach 2 Partial gamification techniques.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
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• Q5. Can gamified trainings meet specific learning
  outcomes like the traditional online/ILT programs?

• Approach 1 Complete Gamification.

• The entire learning is driven by interactive
  scenarios in which the learners progress through
  a series of challenges (that map to each level in
  the game).
• Specifically
• Learners may be provided with an option to refer
  to the content at any time in the game as a
  lifeline.
• Their responses to the challenges based on the
  scenarios they encounter will promote them to the
  subsequent levels to eventually master the
  concept and meet the learning objectives.
• We specialize in building up an engaging gaming
  experience through multiple levels. This helps us
  ensure better retention of learning plus test the
  learners application of the learning.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
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• Q5. Can gamified trainings meet specific learning
  outcomes like the traditional online/ILT programs?

• Approach 2 Partial Gamification Techniques.

• This approach can be used to introduce
  gamification to an organization and can be
  applied to enhance both online as well as ILT
  trainings.
• We use two components to introduce Gamified
  elements to a traditional eLearning course or ILT
  program
• Identify key check points (knowledge checks) and
  quizzes (assessments) and integrate game
  mechanics in knowledge checks and assessments.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss

• Q5. Can gamified trainings meet specific learning
  outcomes like the traditional online/ILT programs?

• Approach 2 Partial Gamification Techniques.

• This approach can be used to introduce
  gamification to an organization and can be
  applied to enhance both online as well as ILT
  trainings.
• We use two components to introduce Gamified
  elements to a traditional eLearning course or ILT
  program
• Add gamified activities.

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5 Facts About Gamification For Serious Learning
That Will Impress Your Boss
I hope this article helps demystify the
gamification concept and provides insight on its
benefits. More significantly, it guides you on
how you can apply it in your organization and see
its impact on your learners. At EI Design, we
have a large practice on gamification for serious
learning and if you have any specific queries, do
contact me.
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