{"id":71,"date":"2013-02-15T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/feir\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-02-19T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:57:25","slug":"gamification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/feir\/2013\/02\/15\/gamification\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification"},"content":{"rendered":"

I casually mentioned to my husband tonight that I needed a quest log for my course work. I play a couple of video games (mostly Skyrim and World of Warcraft) and I love completing tasks and earning achievements\u2014I thrive on it. Just one more quest…<\/em> I can’t say I have the same enthusiasm for the numerous readings, assignments, and various other components of my classes (did I really just admit that on my blog for one of these said classes?). <\/p>\n

He told me that I should look up gamification of homework. Apparently, gamification is a real thing and has been since 2002 when the term was coined by Nick Pelling.<\/p>\n

Gamification is the use of game-thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, ROI, data quality, timeliness, and learning (Gamification, 2013).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seth Priebatsch<\/a>, head of SCVNGR<\/a>, gave an interesting TED Talk about the game layer back in 2010. He suggests that the last decade was all about the social. There is still a lot to explore, but the basic framework is there. The social layer<\/strong> is about connections<\/strong>. This next decade is about the game layer. The game layer<\/strong> is about influence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n