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Gamification white paper from the consulting company Bunchball. It's the first paper to go over how motivation and fun could be used in engagement, brand loyalty and consumer psychology.

This resource lists eight different specific gamification tools. Each tools is described and the gaming elements it provides are also listed. This is a great place to start for educators looking for some specific tools to use.

Gamification is the idea of blending gaming elements with education. This resource gives a definition for this idea and lists four generic ideas that educators can use to start adding gaming elements to their classroom.

The American Pshychology Association reviews the research findings about Game-Based learning. The article also talks about pilot programs that were conducted to explore GBL, links are provided to these studies.

The short article discusses game-based learning and constructivism. It also provides links to scholarly articles about the effectiveness of GBL in education. Several of the articles are available for free from the Boise State Library.

This article tracks current trends that are happening with mobile apps in education. Trends such as HTML5 adoption, analytics, multi-screen, bite-sized learning, and gamification are covered briefly, but this gives readers an idea of where mLearning is moving.

Lucassen,G. & Jansen, S. (2014) Gamification in consumer marketing - Future or fallacy?, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 148, 25 August 2014, Pages 194-202,

This article is about Mozilla Open Badges. These badges are encoded with data about how they were earned and offer a secure way to recognize the achievements of individuals. This is a free system to use and anyone can create and grant their own custom badges. From a school standpoint this becomes interesting to me since it gives students and community stakeholders an opportunity to show that an individual has mastered skills that are taught outside of school.

A LibGuide from the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri. Provides a ton of resources about various aspects of gaming in education, including the important of play, digital learning, game-based learning, gamification, and subject area examples.

In this TEDx Talks video, Prof. Christopher See discusses what games and education have in common and how games can be used to increase student engagement.