Gamification course

"The concept of games in the workplace was addressed more specifically in a session given by Thomas Hsu and Stephen Kaukonen from Accenture. They talked about how Accenture is using gamification strategies to encourage and recognize collaborative activities in the global consulting firm."

"THE MULTIPLAYER CLASSROOM: DESIGNING COURSEWORK AS A GAME is your detailed guide to designing any structured learning experience as a game. Written for professional educators or those learning to be educators, here are the tools to engage and excite students by using principles learned in the development of popular video games. "

Now we are ready to talk about the cool and interesting stuff. Despite the ever growing list of game mechanics (and dynamics), there are actually some basic design principles behind all of them. And these principles are surprisingly simple. 

"Yup, this is actually the tenth anniversary of the original Theory of Fun talk. Hard to believe! I think most did not become aware of it until I reprised it as the keynote of the Serious Games Summit at GDC the next year… And then, of course, the book also followed later that year too."

"On Saturday I met with the Omaha Game Developers Association in a Google Hangout for a couple of hours of interview-style questions. The whole thing was streamed live on YouTube and also captured afterwards, so here it is for those who have the patience."

" As enterprise adoption of gamification grows, that could make gamification startups the next hot acquisition target in the coming years."