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Daniel Skinner

Why Gaming is Working in Higher Ed - 1 views

  • Gamification rewards participation, and the key factor appears to be escalating rewards,
  • Showing the user’s status in the community is also motivational.
  • people are engaged in games because they see the larger picture of the game’s goals and understand why they are pursuing their game-related goals.
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  • They are even willing to concentrate on the unexciting portions of the game in order to reach that next level,
  • recognize incremental progress,
  • Some badges are rewarded automatically based upon student actions.
  • tudents are also able to see a real-time activity stream of their achievement
  • tudents rewarded by badges are spending up to 155 percent more time actively engaged within the classroom than their counterparts
  • Students in the gamified classroom are willingly attempting challenge assignments to earn additional badges and move up the leaderboard.
Stephen Livesey

Coursera - 1 views

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    Not sure when this course will start but i know Skinner is all over the gamification thing at the moment.
Daniel Skinner

Gamification Education - 1 views

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    A wiki article on the gamification of education.
Daniel Skinner

Moodle Plugins Directory: BigBlueButtonBN - 1 views

Daniel Skinner

Gamification - 4 views

And a Coursera MOOC on gamification techniques in general: https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification

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Daniel Skinner

e-Literate | What We Are Learning About Online Learning...Onlinee-Literate | ... - 2 views

    • Daniel Skinner
       
      Pretty good website this, with lots of insights into learning technology coming from the US
  • When Tamny is saying that online education is the next bubble he is of course not talking about the sort of online education that any of us working in the field of designing, teaching, or supporting online courses would recognize.  Tamny is talking about MOOCs
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      Difference between MOOCs and Online Courses
Philip Makinson

MOOCs and Online Education; a real difference |e-Literate - 0 views

  • Kim’s criticism could be made of most press-release based reporting and MOOC provider presentations about online education. Because of this misunderstanding, discussion of online education between college and university boards and administration, and colleges and universities and the public and government bodies has become error-prone and counter-productive.  With consequences.
    • Philip Makinson
       
      This looks quite interesting!
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036fy9r/Newsnight_01_07_2013/ - interesting to hear what David Willets thinks about MOOCS on Newsnight
Daniel Skinner

From Degrading to De-Grading - 2 views

  • One of the most well-researched findings in the field of motivational psychology is that the more people are rewarded for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward (Kohn, 1993).
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    An article on the potential negative effects of rewards in education.
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