Some ideas for gamifying your online course

1. Gamification
Colin Simpson - CIT
MoodlePosium 2012
@gamerlearner

2. Please stand and find a partner

3. Concept overview
• Gamification is about adding game mechanics
and elements to things that aren’t generally
considered to be games.
• Points, leaderboards, badges, collection
missions, appointment dynamics, customising
avatars, rewards, rules, voluntary play,
collaboration, competition, exploration, boss
fights,

4. Why gamify?
• Problem based learning
• Stimulating emotions
• Pedagogically sound
• Fiero and Flow
• Learning from mistakes
• Motivation
• Enlivening dull content

5. Types of fun – Nicole Lazzaro

6. Core principles
• Motivation – feelings of competence, of being
in control, that the outcome matters

7. Core principles
• Rewards

8. Gamification Design Framework
• Kevin Werbach – Associate Professor at The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• For The Win: How Game Thinking Can
Revolutionise Your Business – Wharton Digital
Press

9. Design process
• Define business objectives. Why are you
gamifying? How do you hope to benefit your
business, or achieve some other goal such as
motivating people to change their behavior?

10. Design process
• Delineate target behaviors. What do you want
your players to do? And what are the metrics
that will allow you to measure them?

11. Design process
• Describe your players. Who are the people
who will be participating in your gamified
activity? What is their relationship to you?

12. Design process
• Devise your activity loops. Explore in greater
detail how you will motivate your players
using engagement and progression loops.
First, describe the kinds of feedback your
system will offer the players to encourage
further action, and explain how this feedback
will work to motivate the players

13. Design process
• Don't forget the fun. Although more abstract
than some of the other elements, ensuring
that your gamified system is fun remains as
important as the other aspects

14. Design process
• Deploy the appropriate tools. By this point,
you've probably identified several of the game
elements and other specifics of your gamified
system. If you haven’t already, you should
explain in detail what your system would look
like. What are some of the game elements
involved and what will the experience be like
for the players?

15. Stand and find a new partner please

16. Practical Examples
• Moodle Dailies

17. Practical Examples
• PLANE – Professional Learning Anywhere
anytime, a Network for Educators

18. Moodle tools and plugins
• Conditional Release
• Stamps
• GSB Medals
• Mozilla OpenBadges

19. Links and references
• Shall we play a game - http://fav.me/d2sl0es
• Four types of fun - http://xeodesign.com/4k2f/4k2f.jpg