Game Elements And Learning (Karl Kapp)

Opportunity For Mastery

Emotional Content

Signs Of Progress

Uncertainty Of Outcome

Action

Being At Risk

Challenge

Mystery

Fantasy

Freedom

'What happened and why"

Game should start with action

From beginning to end

Closer Attention

Intriguing

Demonstrate wiithin game environment

Visible

Embrace and Encourage emotion

Explore

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Curiosity

Motivation to fill in information gaps

Immediate engagement

Learner involved immediately with learning process*

Eliminates Guessing

Promotes deep thinking

Engaged with Task

Focus Energy

Suspense

Unpredictable

Demonstrate to themselves

Visible

Clear evidence of progress

Included often

Critical element

Helps recall knowledge

Generalizing knowledge

Failure and re-engagement= mastery

More open to feedback

To fail

Break down learner defences

highly motivational

Methods of thinking

"what ifs"

Approaches to problem solving

Environments

Different roles