This presentation explores the importance and relevance of Gamification in Education and Personal Health and Well-Being. The presentation was delivered at the inaugural Gamification Conference and Exhibition at UPSI Education Research Laboratory in Tanjung Malik, Perak, Malaysia on May 6th 2016 It explores the role of gamification and the impact of technology in the areas of education and health/well-being

1. The Role of Gamification in Education
and Personal Health and Well-Being
UPSI Gamification Seminar
Malaysia
David Wortley

2. About Me
Baby Boomer
Technologist
Human Being
Passion for Life and Human Potential
GAETSS CEO & Senior Consultant Imaginary srl

3. Gamification
Enabling/Disruptive Technologies
Learning/Education
Health/Well-Being

4. What is Gamification?
● Mechanics & Human Psychology
● Challenges
● Chance and Uncertainty
● Goals and Objectives
● Rules, Rewards and Penalties
● Actions & Consequences
● Measurement & Feedback
● Progress & Development
● Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation
Every Single Human Activity is a Game in which we can be Players or Spectators
It is embedded in our DNA to develop through playing games

5. The Education Challenges
How do we equip the children of
today with the knowledge, life
skills and personal attributes to
survive and prosper in a world
which is rapidly changing?
How can we build a sustainable
future in a world in which much of
what once required human
intelligence and skill will in future
be controlled by technology?

6. The Challenges and the Role of Technology
in Education & Learning
● We need adapt learning strategies to the needs of the future society
● We need to recognise that individuals will have many different careers in
their lifetime
● We need to harness the power of technology to augment and enhance
humanity not replace humans with machines
● We need to encourage active citizenship, lifelong learning and a desire to
build a better world
● We need to help students manage personal relationships
● We need to equip students of all ages with the ability to be successful in
the game of life

7. The Health & Well-Being Challenge
The Ageing Society Challenges the Sustainability of Health Services

8. The Ageing Society and Health
Lifestyle Related conditions require serious intervention to change behaviour

9. The Challenges and the Role of Technology
in Health and Wellbeing
● We need to influence lifestyle behaviours as early as possible to avoid
health problems in later life
● We need to incentivise all ages and generations to better exercise and
eating habits
● We need to create the best possible social, political, economic and
environmental conditions to support healthy living
● We need to harness the power of technology to educate and develop the
right skills for 21st century living
● We need to balance technology with humanity

10. The Past, Present and Future of Learning
Impact of Technology on Society and Health
How we Learn
What we Learn
Who we Learn from

11. Education Scenario in the 1960s
● Knowledge and skills acquired from human
beings
● Competence periodically assessed and
recorded by human beings
● Knowledge and curriculum rarely changed
● Learning stopped at University followed by
job training
● Students prepared for a career for life
● Students channeled into a discipline
● Hierarchical society with career
progression based on experience
● University degree guarantees job

12. Role of Teachers in 1960s
● Transfer knowledge
● Apply discipline
● Prepare for exams
● Assess students
● Provide feedback
● Inspire and Motivate
● Coach and Mentor

13. How do we Learn ?
If we need to know something we call on the services of a subject matter expert

14. Which Expert Shall We Ask ?
Will they know ? Are they available ? Can I trust them ? How much will it cost ?
Today the expert available 24/7 with quick access is the Search Engine

15. 1950’s

16. 1990’s
The desktop personal computer provided electronic versions of knowledge

17. The Millennium Virtual Classrooms
As data communications improved virtual classrooms extended the reach
of Subject Matter Experts through online virtual classrooms

18. 2010’s MOOCs

19. Benefits of Computer Based Education
● Cost Effective
● Always accessible
● Consistent answers
● Hyperlink connections to more detail
● Massive pool of knowledge
● Global Reach
The focus of 1st generation CBE is on knowledge transfer and access to information

20. Is this Enough ?
Digital Natives demand and need more than instant access to knowledge

21. Teach me to Swim
Learning by doing – immersive experiences

22. Flight Simulation
Flight Simulators use technology to develop human skills by
immersive experiences that allow for trial and error learning by doing

23. Simulating Medical Conditions
Commercial games company skills applied to medicine
create realistic scenarios

24. The Process Involved
Realism limited by the power of available technologies

25. Mixed Reality
Using physical objects in virtual training to provide accurate assessment
and haptic feedback

26. Benefits of Immersive E-Learning
● Safe learning environment
● Overcomes high cost / impracticality of real-life scenarios
● Enables simulation of rare conditions and events
● Creates learner engagement
● Debriefing opportunities from recorded training sessions
● Knowledge transfer from expert practitioners
● Tracking and Recording of Learner progress
2nd Generation Immersive Experiential Learning by doing goes beyond
knowledge transfer and helps to shape understanding of cause and effect

27. Types of Immersive E-Learning
● Virtual Classrooms
● Serious Games
● Virtual Worlds
● Simulations
● Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

28. Smart E-Hospital
Gamified Immersive Training in a 3D virtual hospital

29. Integrating Real/Virtual Worlds
Datascape Virtual Control Room Environment to visualise real data streams

30. Personalised Learning
Personalised learning is not just applications tailored to the demographics of the
learner but the use of technology to intelligently adapt to the learner situation

31. What food has high protein ?
Next Generation E-Learning will be adaptive and personalised
Acting on information
provided by non-contextual,
impersonal search engines
could prove fatal

32. Enabling / Disruptive Technologies
and Future Learning
● Virtual Reality
● Augmented / Mixed Reality
● Sensors / Internet of things
● Artificial intelligence
● Machine Learning
● Robotics
● Cloud Computing
● Wireless Broadband
● Mobile Devices
● Natural interface devices
● Big Data Analytics
● Data Visualisation
● Holographics
● 3D Imaging
● 3D printing
● Smart Coaching
All of these technologies will cause disruption to existing learning practices

33. Immersive Imaging / VR
New Technologies for creating and displaying immersive environments
will impact many areas of life as they become consumersied

34. What shall we Learn ?
Just as technology is having a major impact on how we learn, how will it also
impact on what we need to learn?

35. What training is needed for this Job?
● Extremely responsible and demanding
● Requires communication and teamwork
● High level of skill and technical knowledge
● Responsible for lives of hundreds of people
every day
● In charge of expensive machinery
● Mistakes could cost lives and money

36. That Train Driver Job No Longer Exists
Many expert jobs done by humans today will be done by machines tomorrow !

37. Intelligent Machines remove the need for
Human Skills to use or maintain them
I love both cars but which do I rely on?

38. Robotics Example
Technology empowering ordinary people to do extraordinary things

39. Who Painted This ?
Technology can do many things better and faster than humans
in health, finance and access to knowledge

40. Education Scenario in the 21st Century
● Knowledge and skills acquired from
interactive technology
● Competence continuously assessed and
recorded by technology
● Knowledge and curriculum change rapidly
● Lifelong learning and development essential
● Students prepared for life with many career
changes
● Students become multi-disciplinary
● Network society with career progression
based on enterprise and relationships
● University degree no guarantee of a job

41. What shall we Learn ?
Future teaching will focus on vocations, personal attributes and competences
which cannot be done by machines
e.g. creativity, innovation, manual dexterity, personal relationships

42. Whom shall we learn from ?
Human Beings inspire, motivate, influence and shape our lives

43. The Human Factor
Leicester City Football Club achieved a success against odds of 5,000/1
(less likely than finding Elvis Presley or the Loch Ness Monster)
Their whole team cost less than £30M
They succeeded by working together to a common vision inspired by
their coach and now they have inspired millions of others to believe in the dream

44. Whom shall we Learn From?
Human Beings are Role Models, Guides, Coaches, Mentors
Personal Relationships with Human Beings make us what we are.

45. Conclusions for Education
● Disruptive technologies will displace many jobs currently
done by humans
● Teachers are already changing their role in society from
knowledge dissemination to coaching and mentoring
● Higher Education is no longer a guarantee of employment
● Future economies will need those essentially human qualities
such as innovation, creativity, caring and inspiring
● Vocational training will become a primary focus in national
education strategies

46. The Ageing Society and Health
Lifestyle Related conditions require serious intervention to change behaviour

47. Possible Solutions
● Develop clinical solutions that prevent or
manage these conditions or
● Influence industry and citizens through
public policy interventions or
● Develop better personal health
management solutions and practices
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48. Clinical Solutions
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49. Public Policy Interventions
Taxes & Legislation
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50. Public Policy Interventions
Awareness and Education
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51. Better Personal Health Management
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52. Which is the Best Solution?
Who will Provide the Solution?
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Medical Professionals or Politicians or Citizens?

53. The Message
Lifestyle Related Conditions are the
most important cause of premature
death and actions which influence
healthy lifestyles should be adopted
as early as possible in your life

54. The Transition from Cure to Prevention
It’s quite clear that the best chance we have for
increasing our life spans and overall improving
our health is to adjust our personal behaviours
and to do so at an early age.
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55. The Problem of the Spectator Society
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Spectators observe but do not get involved in influencing outcomes
- they expect others to make interventions and solve problems

56. The Spectator Society
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Impact of Technology on our Locus of Control ?
Spectator
Leader / Coach
Player
Fan

57. Changing Lifestyles
and Consumer Empowerment
One of the consequences
of this convenient and
easy access to our daily
wants and needs is a
decline in the physical and
mental challenges
necessary for our lifelong
development and health
maintenance

58. What can be Done ?
The consequences of a failure to address these challenges are unthinkable…..

59. Gamification, Technology and Health
Leveraging Disruptive Technology to Address Global Challenges

60. Personal Case Study

61. An Approach for Better Personal Health
Gamification Enabling Technologies

62. Internet of Things & Sensors
Biosensor technologies, Cloud computing, big data analytics,
data visualisation and mobile apps will transform personal health management

63. Conclusion for Public Health
● Transfer of knowledge and information about exercise and
diet is not enough to sustain lifestyle changes
● Wearable technologies providing data about our health are
not enough to sustain lifestyle changes
● A combination of human factors (Gamification) and sensor
technologies can sustain lifestyle changes
● Sustainable public health services will only be possible with
better citizen engagement in personal health management
(and responsibility) for all ages.

64. It’s Life Jim but not as we know it !!!

65. Control the Future (or it might control YOU !!)
Humans once used their skill and Intelligence to harness the potential of technology
Now machines use their intelligence to harness the potential of humans

66. Any Questions ?

67. The Role of Gamification in Education
and Personal Health and Well-Being
UPSI Gamification Seminar
Malaysia
David Wortley